Bill Barker

The Sound of Diamonds (eBook, ePUB)

A Modern Anthology about Life around Puget Sound

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does living around present-day Puget Sound in western Washington and growingup in New Jersey across the Hudson River from the Big Apple have to do with thelatest crop of pictures being beamed down to Earth from the James Webb SpaceTelescope? Everything, according to the author of The Sound of Diamonds. This bookis an anthology of stories by Bill Barker that provides a mix of autobiography,history, and commentary on the issues and complexities of modern-day life-storiesthat he believes collectively suggest what science seems to be pointing to today:that we are all, in fact, inextricably connected to this universe as far back as wecan see into it. This is an old concept, passed down through the ages. Ironically,it was perhaps an early nineteenth-century poet rather than a modern-day physicistwho best described this incredible idea. In the words of William Blake (1757-1827):Each grain of sand, Every stone in the land, Each rock and each hill, Each fountainand rill, Each herb and each tree, Mountain, hill, earth, and sea, Cloud, meteor,and star, Are men seen afar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781667878102
• Artikelnr.: 66884215

Autorenporträt

Bill Barker hails from the greatest Garden State (New Jersey) in our union. The US Navy sailed him out to the Evergreen State (Washington) a while back, washing him ashore as a civilian once more beside the sublime South Salish Sea (for which he is most grateful) after a somewhat exhilarating seven-year stint in its storied submarine service. He has steadfastly refused to live anywhere else ever since. Having retired from the US Postal Service, Bill now simply considers himself a "man of letters" of a different type.