The Passageway Books—Unpublished
The Passageway Book series continues with Riverpath Home:
"Here is a story, a story that spirals out of itself like a snail’s shell. Each chapter is a fresh setting forth and each one a farther ending. The final turn is hidden in light and shadows, but the trajectory is clear. Life’s finish is sheltered by its beginning, like a hand held warm and gently, all the way home. And dying is the promise of coming home. It is many promises kept, on the long path into the night, the silver path under the stars.”
The Longing Star is a richly illustrated story of a star that longs to go beyond its own light.
Born in Time, after the great darkness and the first light, the Star Prince Aster does not know why or how he may go beyond his light, he only longs. At last he shines upon an Elder Star, who tries to comfort him, saying that all stars give their light to life. Aster wants to know what life is and to enter it. The Elder answers that some rare stars have done so, long before his time. He will give Aster eyes to see all the many lives and then Aster may choose. He may choose how close to life he longs to be.
In elaborate paintings and poetic text, The Stag at Midnight tells of a man’s journey towards his death. Each painting and poem describes a further approach and deeper lesson from the natural world that he inhabits and remembers. In reading and looking, we learn that the strength and calm that this man needs to enter his death is already with him, within him. In his memory and in his day, he finds that there is no fear, only trust.
The great Stag is a recurring visitor throughout the story, appearing to invite and teach his human pupil on this great journey into mystery.
