The Strawberry Road: The collective journaling of an ancient wanderer

By Ritch Gaiti

"It was a Sunday morning, the moment of my birth that I stepped onto the Strawberry Road . . . From the very onset, the Strawberry Road appeared vast and never ending, suggesting an adventure that would last forever if I so chose. I had anticipated the undertaking for some time but hadn't felt the need to plan the course or the destination, as those would be decisions that I would make along the way. The thought of discovery was exhilarating, but frightening - yet full of hope and opportunity."

The Strawberry Road, an unplanned journey of discovery of life and time through the naked eye of innocence and reflection. A rare exploration and insight on a journey that we all take, told through a first-person stream of consciousness and the tranquility of prose and verse.

"The past was curiously a testament to order and symmetry while the future remained forever in undefined chaos. Yet, in the calm between the two worlds lay the present - just a marker on a never-ending line. The past has always just ended, while the future was forever a moment away. Yet I experienced neither but cherished what was solely within my grasp, a sliver of now.

And now was always now,
Separating what was,
From what was about to happen
And it will be, until it does.

The Strawberry Road, a depiction of the beauty of change and the time in between:

In a moment of pure stability
Tween what was and what will be
Frozen crystals veiled the land
Neath a blanket of serenity

And each branch of each tree
Was framed in purity
As perplexity turned to harmony,
And obscurity to clarity

A blanket of virtue
A blanket of white
In a moment of pure stasis
Tween what was and what will be

"Looking back, it seemed so obvious. The Strawberry Road, once mysterious, puzzling, stressful, joyful and confusing, was now so clear. But such was the nature of the road - it provided the opportunities and the obstacles. The knowledge and the decisions were all mine."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1699729867
• ISBN13: 9781699729861
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"