Liesl GarnerLiesl Garner grew up one of a little stairstep of red-headed daughters of a pastor father and missionary parents. She grew up with Narnia and being aware of magic and mystery around the next corner, through that wood or that mist. Her childhood home as full of music, laughter, philosophy/theology, poetry, and dance. Always a poetic soul, she felt the poetry of scripture wash over her, but became frustrated as she saw the Bible being used by some to bludgeon others. She searched for her own spiritual path, which, at first, led to abandoning all she knew in the first place. After a raucous, boorish, and boozy twenties, she worked her way out of her wild darkness, came into her own warm family in her thirties and started creating again a magical life. Poetry has been her path to understanding frustration, loss, love, laughter, motherhood, and her own soul's journey. Read More Read Less