Publisher's Synopsis
We only get one chance on this planet. Stepping out of our comfort zones, taking risks, and making a new life where one is a stranger, are sometimes the best choices we can make.
A Stroke of the Foot is a poetry collection of great beauty, containing vastly different and unfamiliar landscapes. It examines relationships and the decision to leave one's homeland to make a fresh start.
White, middle-aged, English-speaking women are generally not recognized as going through archetypal immigrant issues: isolation, loneliness, financial hardship, and dealing with government red tape. Charting the wildernesses of Australia and Canada via four themes-Water, Navigation, Journey, Landscape-these poems reveal insights about the physical and psychological journey. As the author navigates a new place, she also has to examine her beliefs and values.
This book evokes the feeling that love really does conquer all, that we need to trust our hearts, that silence and reflection are survival keys, and that we never stop learning.
