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Lizann's final book released!
It started with a letter Lizann and her father found as they dug through a box of photos, cleaning up after Lizann’s grandmother Winnie (her father’s mother) died. The letter pointed toward Winnie’s childhood, her adoption as a very young child, and even her birth-mother’s death – a childhood Winnie never talked about. “There are things better left forgotten.” After her father died, Lizann decided the forgotten stories of her grandmother and her great-grandmother needed to be remembered. So Lizann embarked on a research project and started writing a book she tentatively titled What’s Remembered Lives. |
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“After over a year of research, both historical and deeply spiritual, I'm starting to write my next book based on the life of my great grandma Josephine Juarez Romero Lindsay Smith (Josie) and her family,” Lizann wrote. That was 2016.
In 2017, Lizann was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer in her cheek, neck, and lungs. She died in 2018, before she could complete her book. Her notes, her initial drafts various book sections, the photographs she had collected in her research sat undisturbed until her mother, Sandy Rosen, decided to look through them. She realized the book was much closer to being completed than any of us realized.
Lizann’s original concept for the book was to write in her own voice and in Josie’s voice, to tell the story of a woman who lived “south of the slot” in San Francisco in the late 19th century, who survived the 1906 earthquake and fire, and who died of “a cancer of the throat.” There are things forgotten too long that are better left remembered, for what’s remembered lives.
Sandy decided that the manuscript needed editing and reorganizing, and that it needed her own voice to tell parts of Lizann’s story, too. And so it became a story told in three voices: Josie’s, Lizann’s, and Sandy’s – and that story has been published and released as A Story Told in Three Voices. You can order it from Schroedinger Publishing at www.schroedingerpublishing.com.
In 2017, Lizann was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer in her cheek, neck, and lungs. She died in 2018, before she could complete her book. Her notes, her initial drafts various book sections, the photographs she had collected in her research sat undisturbed until her mother, Sandy Rosen, decided to look through them. She realized the book was much closer to being completed than any of us realized.
Lizann’s original concept for the book was to write in her own voice and in Josie’s voice, to tell the story of a woman who lived “south of the slot” in San Francisco in the late 19th century, who survived the 1906 earthquake and fire, and who died of “a cancer of the throat.” There are things forgotten too long that are better left remembered, for what’s remembered lives.
Sandy decided that the manuscript needed editing and reorganizing, and that it needed her own voice to tell parts of Lizann’s story, too. And so it became a story told in three voices: Josie’s, Lizann’s, and Sandy’s – and that story has been published and released as A Story Told in Three Voices. You can order it from Schroedinger Publishing at www.schroedingerpublishing.com.
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I sang before I could talk. I wish I had half my daddy's musical talent (and could do justice to his 1958 Rickenbacker). I dance barefoot on the Earth every chance I get. Once, quite by accident, I won a salsa contest in East L.A. |
Levi, my guitar, has been a constant companion since 9th grade
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I am a Witch. I have always been a Witch. The phases of The Moon pull and transform me. The Wheel of the Year calls me to honor The Earth. I experience the life of all beings: green bloods, red bloods, rocks, and things made as sacred and interconnected. I circle and dance with Reclaiming Tradition Witches of all genders and generations.
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I was ordained in The United Church of Christ in 1988 and spent most of my local church ministry dragging middle and high school kids into soup kitchens and other such places to serve. I wrote and produced plays lifting up social justice issues. I authored and taught sex positive curriculum. I currently serve as campus pastor at Pacific School of Religion, a historically Christian Seminary that serves a multi-faith student body.
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