Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, June 8, 2019

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, June 8, 2019 

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WALKING SIERRA MADRE by Deanne Davis

“A new book is like a friend I have yet to meet.” 
Abraham Lincoln

“Choosing a new book is like looking for treasure.” 
Kit Pearson

“Happiness is finding a new book by your favorite 
author!”

Realizing that it is highly inappropriate to refer to 
myself as your favorite author, dear friends and 
neighbors, I’m going to go right ahead and be just 
exactly that presumptuous. I am thrilled, excited, 
delighted and just plain ecstatic to be able to 
report to you that the book I have been working 
on for what seems like an eternity is finished and 
is now available on Amazon.com

If you can’t wait another minute to add it to your 
personal library, go to DeanneDavis@Amazon.
com and there it will be, ready and waiting for you. 
Amazon being the fastest service in the world, 
you should have it within two or three days. 

Sunrises and Sunflowers...Speak Hope, is the 
result of dear friends and family telling me I 
should ‘do something’ with the web log pieces 
I’ve been writing, about family, friends, children, 
raccoons, too many books, what to do with 
a bread machine, and the passing of my best 
friend and husband of fifty years, my beloved 
John. Being a collector of sunrises and sunsets, 
I find myself daily overwhelmed with gratitude 
for God’s never-ending love, His Presence, His 
comfort, and best of all, the Hope that comes with 
the sunrise each day. And, as I’m fond of keeping 
a bunch of sunflowers on the kitchen counter, 
those help, too. 

There are stories about mothers-in-law, of which I 
am one... “If I didn’t have you as a mother-in-law, 
I’d choose you as a friend.” I felt that way about my 
mother-in-law, Leila Jamison Davis, and if you’re 
wondering where I’m going with this, I’m going 
Family. Family is pretty much what most of my 
book is about.

There are pictures of familiar sights...like 
flowering cactus swarming with bees, which led 
me in a circuitous route to stuff we say, “Pleasant 
words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, 
and health to the bones.” Proverbs 16:2 - which 
led, equally circuitously, to an excellent recipe for 
Chicken Chili Relleno Casserole. 

A couple of gentle pieces on procrastination – 
do you know what happens when you give a 
procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! 

A sad tale about homegrown tomatoes - Give a 
man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to garden 
and the whole neighborhood gets tomatoes. Until 
the day you walk out with your cup of coffee and 
find that your tomato plant is in shreds! Leaves 
have been chomped to bits and all the little yellow 
blossoms signifying many more tomatoes on the 
way have been sucked dry...we’ve all experienced 
this, if we’ve ever grown tomatoes.

Thoughts, revelations, observations, wishes, 
dreams... what I wanted to do with this book is 
share them with friends, family and frequently 
with God, Who never stops listening. Sunrises 
and Sunflowers...Speak Hope is ultimately a peek 
inside my heart, where HOPE resides.

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite 
all of the darkness.” Desmond Tutu

As Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing with 
feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the 
tune without words, and never stops at all.”

This book is about Hope, with liberal doses 
of humor, optimism, good memories and the 
occasional really good recipe. Trust me, dear 
friends and neighbors, you’ll be glad you gave 
yourself the gift of Sunrises and Sunflowers...
Speak Hope!

“Sunrises & Sunflowers Speak Hope” is here! 

Look for it on my book page: Amazon.com: 
Deanne Davis 

Star of Wonder the CD is now on TuneCore! Take 
a look!

Blog: www.authordeanne.com

Follow me on Twitter, too! https://twitter.com/@
playwrightdd


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