Happy New Year 2014
Our good friend Kimbriel Dean sent us a wonderful letter with her thoughts about the New Year and the Song of the Goldencocks. Allow us to share her kind words with you.
As we welcome the beginning of a new year, so many of are investing time in reflection. You may be thinking about your own life and what you want to do differently this year. Or, you may be thinking about the state of the world. New Year’s Day is a wonderful time to remember the history that has brought us to this particular point in time and space.
That’s why I was grateful for the opportunity to reread author Margaret Donnelly’s, “The Song of the Goldencocks” this past week. If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet, Goldencocks is a densely packed work of historical fiction centered in Venezuela.
Of course, there are many emotional moments in the book. For me, a grandfather’s (General Garcia) unwavering love and loyalty to his politically rebellious grandson moved me to tears. In spite of all of their problems, that family is there for each other at the end of the day.
Overall, though, Goldencocks serves as an entertaining way to learn about human nature and the ofthidden strings that attach even seemingly isolated regions like rural Venezuelan farm communities to people and agendas that were born half a world away. In Goldencocks as in the world we live in, nothing happens in a vacuum. We are all interconnected. In so many ways, we are connected to events and people from past and present, near and far.
Donnelly offers us a peek behind the curtain, showing us the way the world really works. She is a master in the way she reveals the beauty and the scandal, the innocence and the grittiness, the honor and the and downright evil realities of economics and politics at the macro level.
For those of us who are interested in thinking about the way things are and have been as we focus on conscious creation of the future, The Song of the Goldencocks is a New Year’s treat.
Learn more about The Song of the Goldencocks. Watch The Song of the Goldencocks book trailer in youtube.