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Penelope J. Stokes

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Penelope J. Stokes

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It’s often been debated whether a person’s destiny lies in genetics or environment, but either way, I suppose I was destined to be a fiction writer. A Baby Boomer with an English teacher and a social worker for parents, I grew up being challenged to develop my imagination, and to seek out for myself the meaning and significance of life. I learned early both the magic and mystery of stories and the importance of people–their dreams, their hopes, their longings, their struggles.

From the age of four, when I first learned to read and discovered that words had incredible power, I dreamed of being a writer. But the fulfillment of that dream was a long time in coming. Ten years of university study, culminating in a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature,
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On Wabi-Sabi and Acceptance

On the eclectic altar in our house we have a number of objects, some created and others found. We have stones of remembrance, a cross fashioned from a World War II artillery shell, a broken and glued back together ceramic Buddha, a prayer stone from Mecca, a Tibetan singing bowl, a string of prayer beads. And our favorite Wabi-Sabi, a broken bowl from Nicaragua that holds a candle.

It was years ago

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“Because our hearts are unprepared for truth, we cling to the deception as a shipwreck victim on a storm-tossed sea will grab at anything that floats. But the splintered rubble of our broken trust - those temporary buoys of our shattered dreams - betray us, gouging rough gashes into our souls, drawing our blood and leaving us to sink.”
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“Cuando llegas al final de tu vida y ves como te acercas a la eternidad, lo unico que importa es que hayas querido de todo corazon a tus seres queridos, nada mas.”
Penelope J. Stokes, Heartbreak Cafe

“Sólo sumida en ese torbellino de emociones, en mis horas, más bajas, descubrí que la gente podía seguir amándome aunque viera mi verdadero yo. Con el lado oscuro incluido.”
Penelope J. Stokes, Heartbreak Cafe

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