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Charlie Bynar

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Charlie Bynar is an author and international artist whose David Bowie portrait was featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum's five-year traveling exhibition, David Bowie Is. Additionally, after her son died, Charlie founded Isaac's Ant Foundation and installed ant exhibits across the country in his memory including at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She published her first children's book, Charlie and the Rainbow Trout, in 2021. Through the Darkness is her first work of narrative nonfiction. ...more

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Through the Darkness by Charlie Bynar
"I am in awe of this courageous brilliant woman. Through the Darkness is an incredibly beautiful tribute to Charlie’s beloved son Isaac, who tragically passed at age 16. Her journey through the
impossible tragedy of child loss is inspirational, to say" Read more of this review »
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"This book is one of the most compassionate and validating works I’ve encountered on grief—especially the unbearable grief of losing a child. The author speaks with such tenderness and honesty that I often felt as though someone was finally giving wor" Read more of this review »
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" Through the Darkness has received the following awards.
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Winner, Death & Dying category.
2025 IAN Book of the Year A
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A Course in Miracles by Foundation for Inner Peace
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The Papyrus Ebers by Cyril P Bryan
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
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I love many of the short stories, especially The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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“Understanding leads to forgiveness, and forgiveness frees you from harboring contempt for others.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“When you go into the heart—not the body’s heart, but the heart deep within your soul—you’ll accept that things truly are as they should be, and you are not alone.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“It takes humility and courage—two of life’s great lessons—to admit one’s mistakes and correct them.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Many things—especially the nonphysical—can’t be measured or understood through science. Take the unseen forces of guilt and shame. You can’t measure them, but they can drive people to destruction. The same is true about love. You can’t put your finger on it, but it can cause people to move mountains.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“You know, the ego is very insecure. . . . It uses judgment as armor to protect itself. The ego judges others to shield itself from its own insecurities, which are based on fear. The ego, needing to be special, feeds on constant approval and needs enemies in order to be superior—it raises itself up by putting others down. . . . In other words, by judging others,” Ethel explained, gathering the ingredients for piecrust. “People have a never-ending fear-based dialogue with their egos, which is a source of much unhappiness. They’re afraid of not being good enough, being wrong, not being in control, losing their possessions, being shamed, being judged, not being smart enough, being ugly, being rejected, being destitute, being old and alone. And ultimately, they’re afraid of dying.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Energy is a potential—it remains dormant without time. Therefore, time is the greatest force in nature because, without time, nothing happens. And regardless of whether time is linear or nonlinear, as it is here, it doesn’t matter. The point remains the same: No matter what order you put the past, present, and future in, without time, none of it happens!”
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