A woman wrote from New Zealand where the piece had been read at a large spiritual gathering. The piece seemed to have a life of its own. I started writing and Joe sold the first few chapters to Harper San Francisco. The prose-poem had touched others with a voice that cut through to what really matters. To fulfill this promise I had to go to those places myself.
Life is hard.
And life is wonderful. All Rights Reserved. While I am pleased that this piece, The Invitation, has spoken to many others and happy that it is being shared, I would ask that you honour the original by sharing it as it was written. I am a teacher and writer living in Toronto with my two teenage sons. While my family history includes stories of Scottish, German and Native American descent I am a Canadian woman, and not an Indian elder as has sometimes been reported, being neither old enough nor wise enough to claim the status of elder for any people.