Publication Day -- A Book of Seasons
Sally Sierer Bethea: "Ron Balthazor's book is a sensory and spiritual delight."
It’s official. A Book of Seasons has been released.
A Book of Seasons
This book is not what you think it is. Or rather, it is more than you think it is. You will find here not just stories about living on a small farm in the Georgia Piedmont, but about life on that small farm. Ron Balthazor’s close observation of the inhabitants of the land—from earthworms to armadillos, honeybees to black vultures, pea seedlings to soaring oaks—nurtures curiosity and wonder that invite even closer concentration and contemplation. These meditations on the natural world (both cultivated and wild) all, ultimately, point toward connection: between writers ancient and modern, humans and nonhumans, elemental forces and our beating hearts. Balthazor’s ideas and stories might be funny or solemn, sour or sweet, but all are keenly crafted and disclose his deep interest in the connections hidden in the histories of words themselves. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau (he’s funnier than you remember) and in the tradition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, these chapters invite you into a year of discovering the holiness suffusing even the humblest parts of creation and reflecting on its implications for ourselves and others of all kinds. This is a book about attention. It is a book about communion.
Where to get A Book of Seasons
Available locally at Ghost Apothecary in Athens.
You can order it now:
Book Launch Party
Please join me at the book launch party at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (main gallery) in Watkinsville on May 29th at 7pm. National Storyteller, lifelong friend, and inspiration for my book, Andy Offutt Irwin will be joining me in the reading and Trio Metro will be playing jazz for the reception.
Many congratulations, Ron. I can't wait to hold your beautiful book in my hands. I wish you all the best with getting it out into the world.
Congratulations- looks wonderful!