Fiona Robyn has another year for you.

Last year, I read and reviewed A Year of Questions: How To Slow Down and Fall in Love with Life.  It’s evident from her second “year” book, just released this month, that Fiona, a therapist, has taken her own counsel.

Fiona succeeds in turning seconds into moments, which is akin, I guess, to turning time into eternity.  small stones: a year of moments is a collection of 365 poetic realizations that you’d get if you made a poet into film and opened the shutter for a moment a day.  Few words.  Great images, and even greater evocation of spirit.

A couple of my favorites:

(temporary home)
the cats pace the new rooms like men waiting to become fathers

look up!
pale orange branches, pale blue sky

A moment from Fiona’s book is the kind of thing I send my students back into their journals to feel for – the moment when words become something more: maybe the starter dough for new writing and new living, and leastways the proof that we can all be film if we will just expose ourselves a moment.

And whimsical, kind illustrations, like this rabbit, abound.  On sale this moment.

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Posted July 23, 2008.