Meditations on Love and Loss
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A Reading & Conversation with Memoirist Estrella Engelhardt.
Created from actual letters Estrella Engelhardt wrote to her departed soulmate, her debut memoir confronts the most difficult questions that arise when those we love are taken from us. Come meet the author, have your book signed, and join in conversation.
Purchase a copy of Letters to Jim here.
About the Book:
Letters to Jim is an epistolary memoir and real-time meditation on love and grief, romance and mourning. The story of Jim and Estrella will leave you uplifted, hopeful, and perhaps a few steps further along your own journey of healing.
Dear Jim,
This morning, for the first time in 40 years, I woke up, and you didn’t.
How could you leave me? Now I have all this time that I don’t know what to do with.
Life feels like tissue. Thin and easily torn.
I’m writing you because when I talk to the empty house I feel crazy. But somehow writing makes it feel like I’m actually talking to you.
This morning when I awoke, I pulled out the letter you wrote me all those years ago, the one I always keep in my wallet. I read it and cried. But I could hear your voice.
So maybe, even up there in Heaven where I can’t see you, as I write you a letter, you can hear me, too.
Your Dearest Darling,
Estrella
About the Author:
Estrella Engelhardt has been a student of life for 82 years. She is mother to two adult children and stepmother to five more.She has been involved in International Folk Dancing for twenty years and theatre performance for sixteen years. She also became a Massage Therapist at age 55 and a Hair Stylist from the Vidal Sassoon Academy in 1975. She graduated Panama Canal College with a degree in Physical Education/Psychology, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Mexico, Central and South America, Panama, Israel, and Scandinavia. Letters to Jim (Ibis Books 2023) is her first book.
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This free in-person event is in the Loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple.
Registration will end 1 hour before the event’s scheduled time.
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Purchase a copy of Letters to Jim here.
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