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Celebrities and Their Angels
Celebrities and Their Angels
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Pat gives an overview of the book:

Celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bishop Tutu sketch their idea of an angel and write about their belief, or not, in angels. Holly Near wrote, in part: We are life at its best and its worst We don't need to look away or above We are the universe singing We are all that there is We are angels in need of love.  
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Celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bishop Tutu sketch their idea of an angel and write about their belief, or not, in angels.

Holly Near wrote, in part:

We are life at its best and its worst

We don't need to look away or above

We are the universe singing

We are all that there is

We are angels in need of love.

 

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...Angels, like parables adn fine poetry, speak in many layers of meaning and mystery, tryng to express the inexpressible. If we ignore them, our lives are poorer.

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The response from celebrities to my request for angel drawings was surprising. The first sketch to arrive was from Oprah Winfrey followed quickly by one from famed vintner Robert Mondavi (his angel held a bunch of grapes) and then Burt Reynolds and Senator Barbara Boxer and Brigitte Bardot. I was approaching my deadline when I was asked for text as well as drawings. The project was filled with angst toward the end. Having to depend on others for content is not anything I want to do again.

About Pat

Pat Montandon was born in Texas and lived in Oklahoma as the daughter of a two ministers. At eighteen she became the tenth person in the world to undergo successful (blind surgery as it was then called) heart surgery. In her twenties Pat wrote and produced benefits for the...

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