Nothing but Time: A Triumph over Trauma, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Ayyildiz, Judy Light

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738852600 ISBN 13: 9780738852607

Publisher: Xlibris, 2001

Synopsis

Overnight, everything in her life alters when Judy awakens paralyzed from the waist down by a mysterious illness. As she struggles for the courage to find a way of escape from this well of isolation, pain and powerlessness, her creative imagination takes flight. Armed with insight gleaned from her own stories about events and people in her past and present -- told with restrained humor and often with Appalachian flavor -- Judy discovers that her spiritual desire to "walk" is stronger than the fear of falling

About this title

About the Author

Judy Light Ayyildiz , a graduate of the Hollins University Creative Writing Program, has taught creative writing to all education levels. As a graduate of the Marshall University Teachers College with a major in voice, she spent many years in classrooms and on stage as performer, director, and conductor. She has been an instructor and presenter at literary workshops, international conferences on poetry, writing, and women's studies. Internationally published and translated, she was an editor of Artemis, Artists and Writers from the Blue Ridge for 13 years, a Blue Ridge Writers Conference founder, President of the Medical Auxiliary and founder/director of the acclaimed RAMA Chorus. Author of 11 books, her literary publications also include New York Quarterly, Mickle Street Review, the new renaissance, Sow's Ear, Pig Iron Press, Hawaii Pacific Review, Black Water Review, Northeast Journal, Kalliope, The McGuffin, the Nazim Hikmet Festival Chapbook. Judy was featured in professional biographies in Women in Dialogue, an international anthology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and in Kirklareli'ni Gecmisten Gelecege Tasiyanlar (Outstanding Persons Who Have Come and Gone in Kirklareli,Turkey) by historian Nazif Karacam, and story translated into Italian in the anthology, International Women Writing Today, Rubbettino Editore, 2007. Honors include YWCA "Women of Achievement in Education", Virginia Commission of the Arts grants, various poetry short story prizes, Daughters of Ataturk award, Turkish Forum award, College Bookstores Best Book nominee, Gusto Poet Discovery Winner, VCCA Fellow, and JPX International Literary Novel 1st Place. Judy has been married for over 50 years to a surgeon. She and her husband, Vedii, have three talented and creative children and two extraordinary grandchildren. Forthcoming 2015: Intervals, Appalachia to Istanbul, poetry. Judy is currently completing a memoir titled, The West Virginia Diet. 

From the Back Cover

AFTERWORD

November 1990
I am meditating as I walk the road that circles my hill. This is my fifth time around, and my thoughts are coming with me. I can walk two miles a day now -- and relish the sound of the yards grinding away under my feet. The crackle of the gravel, spilling back at a constant pace, is my momentary control. The pumping tension and release in the muscles of my legs as they propel me forward at my will, makes me grateful. I never walk this circle without musing on how much has changed for me since the summer of 1985. It took me until the following summer to begin to gain my former strength. Now, I have only mild disability in my left foot and my knees.
Karen is scouting for a college next year. Kevin is in Massachusetts, working on a thesis in writing and English, and doing an apprenticeship with a publisher. Kent is back from a year in Turkey, where he got a masters degree in history. Vedi comes and goes from the hospital, making rounds, doing surgery. I continue with my work. And, oh yes, Rebekah, others and I did bring forth the Blue Ridge Writers Conference that fall. It was a great success. Also, that fall, I was out with my wheelchair and crutches teaching my night classes.
GBS taught me: To live in the present; to be grateful; that the only real control we have is now; that the power of the Spirit is phenomenal; and that we are everything we have known.


November 2000
Now, I can stay up half the night writing, sleep late, and go out and walk four miles. Vedi is retired. The children have found their own lives. Karen, Pete's wife, Cathy, and I nursed Mother here in my home for seven months before she died of cancer five years ago. She died with the same quiet reserve of strength and dignity that she demonstrated throughout her life. Vedi has completed his project of the past three years with Turkey, as an international health care consultant for the hospital system where I spent the six weeks of rehabilitation in 1985. We look forward to fun with family, travel, seminars, writing, and painting -- one step at a time.

From the Inside Flap

When the flood washes over both at dusk and dawn,
float on the dank waters, let go at the falls
where dragonflies dart in the arms of the sun.
Open to the gossiping wet tongues of the hills
-- such tales of brick roads, primroses, and shale,
warm rain in the cool limbs of iridescent trees,
fans of white butterflies dusting a footbridge, or
drunken gnats serenading the wide-rimmed sombrero
of a lamp they once knew.
JLA

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738852600
• ISBN 13: 9780738852607
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211