Facing adversity is a part of life. It is up to those challenged as to how these obstacles will impact their lives. In a highly personal new book, Learning to Dance With the Dragonfly: Healing Lessons of Nature, Holly N. Fordyce describes her own journey through dealing with the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer. The result is a remarkably inspiring collection of poems, photographs, journal entries, and essays that is at the same time highly emotional, yet infinitely comforting. It is evident the exploration and immersion in the dark produced much light for the author.
Holly N. Fordyce is a breast cancer survivor and a social worker in private practice. She has a master’s degree from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.
In the past five years Fordyce has become a nature photographer and an inquisitive naturalist. She lives with her husband, two dogs, and two cats close to a cranberry bog in Carlisle, Massachusetts, where she walks daily with her golden retriever, Rosie.