Mindfulness: Poems of Life and Love

Kathryn Carole Ellison began writing poetry for her children in the 1970s when they were reaching the “age of reason,” and she was leaving an abusive marriage, becoming a single parent, and setting out on her own. She wanted to share “life’s lessons” and her “words of wisdom” with them. Poetry was her way to communicate with her pre-teenage children to help them make good decisions in life, without a barrage of words and lectures that would fall on deaf ears.

And so, the Advent Poems began...