Where Stillness Speaks
WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS, historical fiction, unfolds the story of a woman’s transformational healing journey while living among the Shakers in two different time periods: Present day at an authentically restored Kentucky Shaker village and the past, 1863, during the Civil War. Exploring themes of forgiveness, dreams and desires, WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS is a love story played out against the backdrop of a Shaker utopia. It is a utopia of time-travel, of places where the skin between the worlds is thin, a place apart from modern day chaos and violence.
The core values of the Shaker utopia (respect for the earth, pacifism, racial and sexual equality, belief in a spirit world) resonate still today. The novel invites the reader to Pleasant Hill where Trappist monk Thomas Merton wandered among the abandoned buildings and “listened to the Silence” while sitting on a chair made by someone “perfectly capable of believing an Angel could come and sit down on it.”
WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS, historical fiction, unfolds the story of a woman’s transformational healing journey while living among the Shakers in two different time periods: Present day at an authentically restored Kentucky Shaker village and the past, 1863, during the Civil War. Exploring themes of forgiveness, dreams and desires, WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS is a love story played out against the backdrop of a Shaker utopia. It is a utopia of time-travel, of places where the skin between the worlds is thin, a place apart from modern day chaos and violence.
The core values of the Shaker utopia (respect for the earth, pacifism, racial and sexual equality, belief in a spirit world) resonate still today. The novel invites the reader to Pleasant Hill where Trappist monk Thomas Merton wandered among the abandoned buildings and “listened to the Silence” while sitting on a chair made by someone “perfectly capable of believing an Angel could come and sit down on it.”
WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS, historical fiction, unfolds the story of a woman’s transformational healing journey while living among the Shakers in two different time periods: Present day at an authentically restored Kentucky Shaker village and the past, 1863, during the Civil War. Exploring themes of forgiveness, dreams and desires, WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS is a love story played out against the backdrop of a Shaker utopia. It is a utopia of time-travel, of places where the skin between the worlds is thin, a place apart from modern day chaos and violence.
The core values of the Shaker utopia (respect for the earth, pacifism, racial and sexual equality, belief in a spirit world) resonate still today. The novel invites the reader to Pleasant Hill where Trappist monk Thomas Merton wandered among the abandoned buildings and “listened to the Silence” while sitting on a chair made by someone “perfectly capable of believing an Angel could come and sit down on it.”