These essays include reflections, humor, and spiritual insights taken from every day life. Created by spontaneous combustion, the flammable ingredients included daily routine, a dash of astonishment, a pound of stressors, and simmering beliefs in things unseen that bubbled unconsciously into essays. The author looks at herself, her friends and family, faces in the crowd, and the world at large to consider deeper truths without forcing religious views or demanding that the reader follow any spiritual path except one that opens their heart and mind. DMarie asks that we consider what binds us...

Totems are Spirit Symbols we See, Speak, or Sing. Poetry slips and slides through patterns of sound and silence. Most of us experience poetry as rhythm early in life, in nursery rhymes, songs, or rap. These poems share elements of all these forms. Their spirits are smaller than sparrows and as cosmic as creation, often telling a story, occasionally unraveling the hem of a healing mystery.