"The moment is there, and then it's gone. It's like a shadow which you didn't really see: that in a way, you just barely felt and then-too fast-it disappeared."
Shadows We Are...
This is a story of three young women: One whose want and wish was to have a life filled with hope, harmony, and home; another, redhaired and fascinating, seeking with all her being to stimulate and satisfy her senses and, by doing so, blur from them the reality of responsibility; and a third who needed to create a new life plan from the residuals of the tragedy that destroyed her first plan.
It is the story of one young man who would have an effect on each of the young women while still maintaining his own hold on his own life. This is the story of their relationships, of the incidents, accidents, and actions that had an effect on their dispositions and that were formative within the vicissitudes of those relationships. It is the story of chances and choices and the striving for meaning in their lives.
And, always prominent in the darkness and the light are the shadows of the past-and the shadows we are.
Geoffrey Workenrich (pseudonym) is the great-great-grandson and namesake of the youngest of the five children born to Welsh parents who migrated to West Texas in the 1840s. Frail, especially as measured against his three robust brothers, Geoffrey became a newspaperman and after that a writer of stories. Among those stories were the exploits of his second oldest brother Cletis, known throughout the west for the passionate -and often violent-defense of his family and their way of life. Motivated in his writing to explain (and perhaps justify) the reason behind his brother's actions, Geoffrey delved into philosophic theories and insights.
Although the current Geoffrey can make no claim to adventure (or violence) in his first book, should his great-great-grandfather be propelled forward in time in order to read it, the author's wish is that in its modest philosophical inclinations, he would find resonance.
