• The journal has compartments for credit cards,

​      pens, and more

 FEATURES:

• Mailed directly from the author

• $25.00 per copy + $5.95 shipping

• Contains 42 blank lined pages for your notes

• Includes 163 new poems

Kevin Sterling & Peter Piper Press

Kevin Sterling grew up in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA in 1977. In 1978 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to pursue a Master’s Degree in Philosophy. In 1980, he relocated again, this time to Annapolis, Maryland. Kevin taught Latin and Greek in public and private schools in Maryland before starting a business in embroidery design. In 1999, he left that business to pursue a career as a licensed acupuncturist, which he enjoyed for more than 20 years. He also taught acupuncture point location at the Maryland University of Integrative Health and co-authored the institute’s teaching manual on the subject.

Kevin enjoys writing, kayaking, photography, and maintaining an electronic virtual pipe organ in his home in Laurel, Maryland. He and his wife, Mary Lou, host house concerts there several times a year. They have a grown daughter working in the field of artificial intelligence as applied to education.

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• Published as a 6-ring expandable journal

From the Introduction:

Come join me in my cabbage patch and sit awhile contemplating the bounty of Nature and the quirks and challenges of living as guests in her domain. Use the blank journal pages to jot down your observations and the takeaways from your stolen moments in the world within.

Included for your enjoyment and to invite your partnership in exploring the world we live in is a copy of my philosophical reflections in verse, The World Within the Cabbage Patch.  It is separated behind the blank journal pages. I wrote these verses while reading Thoreau's Walden. Many draw their inspiration directly from its pages. Some, as noted, borrow entire lines. I like to think of these verses as a “creative reading” of Thoreau. Please participate. If my verses inspire in you a creative look at some of the less examined corners of your world or help to refresh your investigations of well-trodden paths, then good. I would be pleased.

As “the philosopher” said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” This is not to imply that we may come to know the examined life fully, or even that knowledge in and of itself is the key to a good and worthy life. What kind of knowledge? On which side of the brain? So here we go. If the unexamined life is not worth living, perhaps it is because it is missing the refreshment and vigor of standing courageously and humbly before the unknown. What we bring and discover there may be more than enough to restore us to our full and wise humanity, to homo sapiens, and save our kind.

Kevin Sterling, August 2024

The World Within

the Cabbage Patch

Philosophical Reflections in Verse

​by Kevin Sterling

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