REVIEWING TODAY: AND THE SILENT SPOKE BY AMY L. GREESON
“Sometimes things appear right before our eyes and yet we’re unable to see them. Sometimes it’s only because of another that our eyes are opened and our perspective shifts. And with the shift, the world is seen in an entirely new light.”
And with that soon-to-be-proven-incredibly-prophetic understatement, Amy L. Greeson entices you into sharing perhaps the most spectacular if soft-spoken memoir this reviewer has ever read. Appropriately titled, And the Silent Spoke, Ms. Greeson’s exquisitely presented memories read like an award-winning documentary. Her observations are so precise and comprehensive, so intelligent and perceptive, so utterly sensitive to the alternative realities existing among Earth’s indigenous populations, this brilliant author takes you, to say it futuristically, where no man has tread before. Okay, that may be an overstatement. But this literary diary, superbly comprised of truly unique, invaluably meaningful (in a deeply human way), intensely vivid recollections, simply screams for overstatement … if in a rather quiet way.
Amy L. Greeson was impelled when still a young adult to explore the widely assorted and isolated environments of native peoples, their cultures, and especially the vast accumulations of natural pharmaceuticals known and used by primitive, original cultures to maintain health and longevity. She shared a lifetime of indelible moments and adventures with these amazing people, and now she uses a creatively inspired format for this book of truly gorgeous writing: And the Silent Spoke. Which is organized as a kind of campfire chat with an old woman’s enraptured nieces and nephews. One moment, you are the woman. Then you feel like the niece or nephew. Then you become … each of those fascinating, fondly-remembered, indigenous people. And you begin to sense the spaciousness of being human. When Ms. Greeson brings you back to Earth, “the world is seen in an entirely new light.”
A. GREESON
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