Invite these poems to companion your heart and let them stretch your soul. Brenda's spare, simple words say big things. In this very intimate collection we are offered messages of life's mysteries in a language as clear as any fine spiritual direction. Throbbing through the poems is her Celtic sensibility, offered in the calm dialect of a sagacious heart bred to thrive in Newfoundland weather. Taken as talismans of transformation, these poems beg rereading, like stories retold over strong tea to take off the chill and to strengthen the heart. We are whispered secret courage to engage life,…mehr
Invite these poems to companion your heart and let them stretch your soul. Brenda's spare, simple words say big things. In this very intimate collection we are offered messages of life's mysteries in a language as clear as any fine spiritual direction. Throbbing through the poems is her Celtic sensibility, offered in the calm dialect of a sagacious heart bred to thrive in Newfoundland weather. Taken as talismans of transformation, these poems beg rereading, like stories retold over strong tea to take off the chill and to strengthen the heart. We are whispered secret courage to engage life, open-eyed and ready. The stanzas give voice to the quiet satisfactions of honest, open-hearted awareness and offer a traveler's guide into a soulscape both delicate and wild. From a knowing of winter's graced grit to the full out exhilaration of the greening again spring, Brenda opens to us the experience of a woman stepping into elder-hood well versed in living close to the heart of things. Look, she says to us, despite any initial evidence to the contrary, small moments are thresholds into soul size transformations and no less than life's best gift. (Gabriele Uhlein OSF, author and artist, Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen)
Brenda Peddigrew was born in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and remembers many of the changes that occurred as a result of Newfoundland's entry as the tenth province of Canada. She has followed education herself, being a high-school teacher for nine years before achieving a Master's degree in Theology in St. Louis, MO, followed a few years later with a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning, which enabled her to lead/facilitate in many parts of the world, including Ireland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Australia, Nicaragua, thirty-two states and all provinces of Canada more than once! For the last twenty-three years Brenda has lived and worked from "SoulWinds," the forest property she shares with longtime companion Dr. Joan Weir. N.D., visiting her home province, Newfoundland, two to three times a year, staying connected to her Peddigrew family and Mercy community there. Brenda continues to write and publish books of poetry and essays, inspired and supported by the forest and river on which she lives, by Joan Weir, and their dog Mahti and cat MaCushla, both in a long line of previous pets.This memoir was written particularly for the members of her family who will follow beyond her, especially Kathy and Paul Grandy and their sons Benjamin and Michael Grandy, and Ken and Tammy Peddigrew and their children Matthew and Katie. It is also for those historians who will someday discover the Sisters of Mercy (NL) in their amazing contribution to education and health care from the early history of our province, and now fading in numbers and ability to continue such contributions.
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