Taj a Shotwell

Family and Faith Taj a Shotwell

Fifty inspiring and comforting untold poems/short-stories and thirteen Life-Lessons Learned Quotes. Words are reinforced with colorful photos and illustrations. This bestselling author shares her life's journey through dramatic and loving stories about historical experiences with several generations of relatives and friends from her historic hometown, Orange Mound, located in the southeast part of Memphis, and international travels. Some poems address the complexities of families, (nuclear structured or otherwise), and confirm the family does matter. The author also gives views and thoughts about world issues and communal societies (past and present). The poems capture various spiritual expressions including: hate to love; selfishness to gratitude; judgmental to acceptance; destruction to peace; dysfunctional to purposeful; sadness to joy; bitterness to forgiveness...