![]() ![]() Just because she is on her own though, does not mean that she is "alone." Many thanks are due to the McCloud Community Resource Center, to her brother and his family, and her mother, for all their help. ![]() Teresa Garcia (once Teresa Huddleston-Garcia) is a 30-something mother of two children with special needs, raising them "alone" in the small mountain town of McCloud, CA. She has written poetry nearly all her life, and draws upon her love of nature and the intricate webs of life for inspiration. Teresa Huddleston-Garcia is a mother of two living at the foot of the sacred Mount Shasta in Northern California. Although the poems and songs speak for themselves, brief explanations of culture have been included, with a list of resources for further reading in the back. The poetry herein is the product of a Western Woman who has been heavily influenced by the East, and particularly by her researches into Shinto spirituality and Japanese folklore. The flower of a poem opens her petals to the sun, amidst a garden of other poems. The Kami ever call for their Miko, and they are both within us all. The worlds of the visible and invisible mesh, and sometimes the unseen is glimpsed between the red posts of the torii on a walk in the woods, or at home. ![]() The world is a fine tapestry, ever worked and ever evolving upon the loom of spirit. ![]()
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