Lilli Jolgren Day
LILLI JOLGREN DAY is a photographer, artist, and author who was born and raised in the beautiful state of Michigan. While she is thrilled to have won a silver medal in the Readers Favorite Award Contest for her debut novel, her most precious tribute is still the whimsical portrait of a stick figure mom inside a big pink heart drawn many moons ago by one of her children proclaiming, "Mom I know is a good mom. I love you mom". She takes it out and reads it whenever she doubts herself and loses her way.
Lilli is the mother of two, partner to Doug, grandmother to three nearly perfect little people, a battered but grateful MECFS warrior, and like most writers she loves to curl up with a good book and steal away on a magic carpet of words. THE WONDER OF ORDINARY MAGIC is her debut novel. A Reading Group Guide is available on her blog www.bookbabie.com
“After Mary confessed that dream to him, Jack got to wondering how women felt about motherhood once their children are grown and didn't need them anymore. How do they close the storybooks, box up the toys, and pack up the memories of the deeply lived-in childhoods of their babies? Childhoods that fly by quickly and selfishly, without regard to a mother's unconditional love and sacrifice. How does a mother go on being a mother when one day she wakes up and finds that her arms are empty and her grown children are walking away from her without so much as a glance back?”
“Silently a flower blooms,In silence if falls away;Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,The world of the flower, the whold of the world is blooming.This is the talk of the flowr, the truth of the blosson:The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”
“He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.”