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The Compassionate Friends  NSW Inc.
4th Floor, Room 404
32 York Street,
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA

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Tel:  61 2 9290 2355
Fax: 61 2 9290 2445

BOOK REVIEWS

"Once upon a shooting star" Carolyn Salter

Carolyn Salter was born in South Australia, and spent her childhood in a small rural town, south of Adelaide, being educated there and in Adelaide.  She has lived with her husband, David, in Western Australia, and overseas and is now residing in the New England area of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales where they have a grazing property raising beef cattle. For many years they ran an agricultural aviation company, and still have aircraft, in which they have travelled extensively, both in Australia and overseas. They have an interest in historic and antique aeroplanes.

The poetry is, in essence, an evolution of grief after the loss of their son in an aircraft accident, coming after the loss of a brother and mother.  It is a glimpse into the feelings of disbelieving, of anger, of utter despair, of desperate missing and the determined struggle through all these emotions to some sort of peace and acceptance.

But more than that. It is also a spiritual journey, in which much has been learned of the nature of self, the relationship between humans, and beyond humanity.  It is a discovery of choices and decisions and who we are and why we are - and that there is so much more to learn.

It is about one struggle in the kaleidoscope challenges of life.

The book was launched at the The Compassionate Friends 2002 "Friends Downunder" Third International Gathering Sydney.

This book is available through the Compassionate Friends Drop in Centre in Sydney at a cost of $22.50 posted in Australia, or $26.00 overseas.
(a portion of the purchase price goes to TCF NSW)

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