November Roses: Mindfulness at Seventy

How are we to live? When we are done with providing and procuring, when we have had enough noise, nonsense and negativity, when we no longer wish to gather up trophies, toys and talismans, what is left? Do we see a dark wall or a shimmering edge?Written with the wisdom of maturity and the experience of a Psychologist with a Zen, Contemplative, Twelve Step background, this book is a journal of a seventieth birthday year. November Roses addresses issues of aging, recovery and spirituality with both humor and candor as it traces a memorable passage. A year of challenges. A year of mindfulness. A year of life on the edge.

A Volunteer Naturalist for the Wellfleet Bay Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary and a semi-retired Psychologist, Dr. Denessen lives on Cape Cod. She has traveled extensively by automobile throughout the United States and Maritime Canada with her young adult grandchildren, lodging in a tent and cooking on a camp stove. She particularly enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking and playing her Native American flute. Dr. Denessen is the author of Little Dipper: Roots of Healing, Tides of Change (Dreamcatcher Publishing, 2007; Xlibris, 2010), a memoir of her experience in her cabin in the woods of coastal Canada. She is co-author, with her grandson Derrick Soares, of Luminous on the Threshold: Hope for the Bereaved and Help for Those Who Would Stand by Them (Xlibris, 2007), written subsequent to the death of her granddaughter, Derrick's sister.