Flashlights at High Moon

About the Book

Writing, for me, it has become apparent, is the mechanism by which I best metabolize feelings, emotions, and life. How without words could I explain to so many others the tragedy and comedy of the recreation of one moment in life? Had I cameras or a sketch artist, a TV crew, or otherwise, I would step down from my words to the hierarchy of contemporary media. I am left with scribing all the visions held so clearly in my right brain into the left-brain's orderly explanation. What instantaneous gasp of delight can occur with reading text? Writing is one of the most courageous and impossible tasks of taking a moment and deconstructing and reconstructing it with as much certainty as possible.

Really, everything I have ever experienced, seen, created, or expressed could be simplified into one single word: Hope. The quality of believing in a world and a way of living that is outside the tragedy of being destroyed.

About the Author

Hope Stevenson, a NYC based writer, observes and creates emotional scenes with analogies and rhythms of sound within each page. She currently works at Magnetar Capital in New York, previously at the New York Academy of Art and helped start the Academy of Muse, a non-profit think tank for the arts. She graduated from NYU with a degree in Journalism and minor in Physics. She combines the beauty of pleasurable daily activities with the heavy knowledge of a deeper philosophy. She is an avid pipe organist, certified Reiki practicioner, dancer, and visual arts supporter.