Review: Profound and Deeply Moving
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
"'course you and I may not meet again. But that matters not s you are in me now and always will be, absorbed" --RJ Askew, Watching SwiftsIt is rare that I am left speechless by a book. Speechless, because I do not know exactly what to say, but not wordless. There are many words I can think of to describe this book. Magnificent. Poetic. Gentle. Profound. Deep. Meaningful. Engaging. Painful. Beautiful and Brilliant. Those would only be a few.This book touched me profoundly. It put me back into painful places in my past and showed me the light I now stand in having survived them. With such incredible observations on the simple joys of life and nature, Mr. Askew takes the soul on a journey through the gardens of human experience and into the sky, where we join the swifts in flight. He reminds us that, birds or not, we were all born to fly.I opened my review with a quote from the book and I end it on the same note. That is how I feel about Watching Swifts. That we met for a brief time, that I was taken from my own reality and sent happily into another, and that it's no matter the book is finished, even though I am sad it is over. But still, I will carry it with me now forever, tucked safely inside my heart and mind, where I keep all the stories I read that became precious to me and made my world a better place in which to live.