The Joy of Being
A vineyard of poems and short stories
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All Is Well
With a smile on your lips, a glow in your eyes, and love in your heart you reach for me. As you wrap your arms around me and draw me close, you press your cheek against mine, brushing a kiss across it, warm… pleasing… like a beautiful dream. As I close my eyes, I cling to you and all is well, while the full moon rises. Slowly….silently gliding across the sky it lights the night, showing us the way, warming our hearts on a chilly night, as tiny snowflakes, the first of the season, fling themselves against your loving face.
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About the Book
The Joy Of Being is a collection of short stories and poems, ranging from the sobering experiences of WW II, seen through the eyes of a five year old girl, to the kaleidoscopic view into the magical world of fairy tales, nature, and aimal spirits. The poems and also the short stories cover a loving and sometimes troubled landscape of a devoted family life, embracing love, friendship, humor, politics, dreams and loss, encouraging readers to get in touch with their own emotions and the spirit within, involving poems that speak of simple moments that often go unnoticed. Included is also a diverse compilation of Christmas poems and various uplifting and inspirational Christmas stories.
About the Author
Hildegard Caringi was born in Danzig, Germany. In 1944 Hildegard's father, a young soldier on his way to Russia, got killed in Poland. After the war Danzig became Polish (Gdansk) and Hildegard's mother fled with her three children to Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, not far from the Danish boarder, where she eventually remarried and had five more children. As a small girl, Hildegard escaped to a world full of fairies, witches, goblins, and other creatures, which stimulated her creativity and desire to write and perform. It is this same desire that brought Hildegard to pen The Joy Of Being a vineyard of poems and short stories, and Once Upon a Sand Castle, a children's adventure-fantasy book.
Hildegard has lived in many parts of the world, eventually making her way to Hollywood where she acted in films, television shows, and commercials, in addition to her career as a drama coach, a German language disc jockey, and TV announcer in the area. She has also written some television shows, short stories, and poems in both English and German, and plays, directing many of them, in addition to holding a degree in business administration from Germany. Hildegard lives with her husband of 35 years, actor/writer/producer Steve Drexel, in Quartz Hill, California.