{"id":3316,"date":"2014-01-21T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katrinakenison.com\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2014-01-21T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:10:45","slug":"pub-date-music-photos-books-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/katrinakenison.com\/new\/pub-date-music-photos-books-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub date! (Music, photos & books to win)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nT<\/span>oday is the official paperback release of\u00a0Magical Journey<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paperback publications of quiet, mid-list memoirs don\u2019t generally get reviews or ad budgets or press releases or parties.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m pretty excited about today anyway. The fact Magical Journey<\/strong> even made<\/i> it into a paperback edition is incredibly gratifying.\u00a0 It means this close-to-my-heart book will find its way to many more readers in the months to come.\u00a0 (Thanks to some energetic advance footwork by the terrific Magical Journey Team<\/strong><\/a>, this is already happening!)\u00a0 Reason enough to celebrate, right?<\/p>\n

So, this morning I thought, Why not mark pub date with an intimate on-line party right here, in the space where we meet each week to converse, connect, and share stories of our lives?<\/p>\n

First, some music. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

E<\/span>xactly two years ago this week, I was holed up in my mom\u2019s guest room, writing five or six hours a day.\u00a0 To stay sane, I took long walks.\u00a0 One afternoon, while listening to a Pandora station through my earbuds, I found myself stopped in my tracks on the sidewalk, tears streaming down my cheeks.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t heard Stevie Nicks singing \u201cLandslide\u201d since I was a teenager \u2013 when I\u2019d loved the song without having a clue what it was really about.<\/p>\n

The version coming through the ether was different, recorded live just six years ago.\u00a0 Stevie\u2019s voice is older, scratchier, better. It\u2019s a little raw, and full of feeling. And all at once, I knew:<\/p>\n

The questions in the song were the very questions I was struggling with in my life and in the pages of my book.<\/p>\n

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Can the child within my heart rise above?<\/em><\/p>\n

And can I sail through the changing ocean tides\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Can I handle the seasons of my life?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh oh I don’t know, oh I don’t know. . .\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The bittersweet ache of children growing up, the truth of change, the idea that growing older can also mean growing stronger \u2013 these were my themes.\u00a0 \u00a0And they were captured perfectly in these lyrics.<\/p>\n

Well, I’ve been afraid of changing<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0‘Cause I’ve built my life around you<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 But time makes you bolder<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Children get older<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 I’m getting older too<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Yes, I’m getting older too.<\/em><\/p>\n

I must have listened to \u201cLandslide\u201d a hundred more times over the last two years.\u00a0 I came to think of it as my secret \u201cMagical Journey\u201d anthem.\u00a0 And it inspired me to go in search of more songs that spoke to all I was feeling, songs about growth and change and living in the moment.<\/p>\n

The result? \u00a0A Magical Journey<\/strong> playlist.\u00a0\u00a0 These are the songs that kept me writing and walking and thinking and feeling. \u00a0I hope they resonate with you on your journey, too.<\/p>\n

To access the Magical Journey<\/strong> Playlist, go to the homepage, scroll all the way down, and you\u2019ll see the Grooveshark widget near the bottom of the sidebar, on the left. \u00a0Click and listen. \u00a0Let me know what you think. (And tell me what songs I\u2019m missing!)<\/p>\n

Photos from the journey. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I<\/span>\u2019m not really a photographer.\u00a0 But I love to capture the small, revelatory details that give life its texture and color. Although I didn’t deliberately set out to take pictures of my Magical Journey<\/strong> year, I did end up with a collection of \u00a0photos that evoke or capture some of the moments I wrote about. \u00a0Just for fun, I\u2019ve gathered up a few of them here to share with you. (My husband took the photo above early on a rainy morning, moments before I stood on this stool in a pond near our house, where he shot the picture for the book jacket — yes, a family project.)<\/p>\n

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“Deep beneath the frozen earth, new life waits, patiently biding time until the blessing of sun and benediction of rain call it forth. \u00a0Sitting here alone in my slowly brightening kitchen, I wonder if my early morning restlessness could be preparing me for an awakening of my own.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"_MG_5995\u00a0“And meanwhile, unnoticed and and unremarked on, there was the exquisite, empty sky, the golden trees, the pure light of the sun at dusk, the sharp transparent air.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/-image7790930\"“Growth begins in silence, evolution with a heartbeat, \u00a0journeys from where we are: standing in one place and daring to imagine a new horizon.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"yoga“Do I have the courage to be ‘home alone’ with myself, to enter into the deeper rhythm of my own being? The question leads me back, again and again, to my yoga mat.”<\/em>
\n\"IMG_1327\"“There is just space for two pairs of metal bunk beds, a single twin (already taken) in the middle, a sink, a wastebasket, and three small dressers to be shared for a month with four other women.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_1331\"“In a way, teacher training is like kindergarten. \u00a0We begin the day singing. \u00a0We have circle time and sharing time. Our teachers tell us stories.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_7105\"“I am home, but the journey will clearly be ongoing; a journey that turns out to be more about accepting the person I am now than striving to become someone else.” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_6022\"“Our sons may be grown and gone, but Gracie, loyal companion of their boyhoods, is still here. Still here and, though decades older than all of us in dog years, still exuberantly herself, reminding us that to live well is to honor both the beauty of routine and the enchantment of the moment that is right now.” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_5497\"“Which books have gone mute? Which ones are speaking up, demanding to be returned to the shelves?”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0370\"“On the sill: a couple of crystals, a black heart-shaped rock picked up on a walk many years ago, a glass egg that catches the sunlight. . . .” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0358“Writing has helped me figure out what I know for sure and, more important, it has given me a way to grapple with those questions that seem to have no answers.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"reunion“What would I have thought on the eve of my graduation, if someone could have flashed me forward thirty years to this mild spring midnight, this room full of exuberant fifty-plus-year-old women dropping their butts to the party anthem of our era?”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3186\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“And so we show up where we can and we give what we do have to offer: ourselves.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"20110914-192931-pic-80466293.preview\"“Perhaps our paths crossed randomly, but somehow I think not, choosing to believe instead that there is invisible magic at work in all our lives, magic that sets us down on the routes we’re meant to walk, magic that leads us to one another. . .”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_1270\"“Move with the current, not against it. \u00a0Resist nothing. Let life carry you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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enter to win a signed paperback copy of \u00a0Magical Journey <\/span><\/h3>\n

My heartfelt thanks to all of you who visit here week after week, read my writing, and write to me in return.\u00a0 \u00a0I love your “voices” and am always honored to hear your stories. \u00a0Today it\u2019s my pleasure to offer two signed copies of the new paperback of Magical Journey<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To enter to win<\/strong> a book, \u00a0leave a comment<\/strong> below. Tell me what song is on re-play in your car or inspiring you in your own life these days.\u00a0 Or, just say hello and \u201ccount me in.\u201d \u00a0Winners will be chosen at random after entries close at midnight on January 29.<\/strong>\u00a0Good luck to all!<\/span><\/p>\n

Want to order the paperback today?<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0Click here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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