Ray is the daughter I never had. The summits we don¿t reach create a longing that must find its resolution in our creative life.
This Omnibus is a collection of stories that span more than a decade.
In Quest for the First Hive, Ray, a mischievous fourteen-year-old girl ventures to the Toronto Zoo where she develops a special relationship with an orphan giraffe named Tum. This leads her on a quest to the Kalahari desert in Africa where she seeks traditional wisdom from uLangalibalela - in order to warn the Queen of the First Hive of a plot to manipulate the genetic code of bees.
In the Butterfly Bard Ray follows the Monarchs from the shores of Lake Erie all the way down to Mexico, flying with this 40 million-year-old migration in an ultralight. They have many adventures along the butterfly way.
In Shambhala & the Caregiving Heart of the World, Ray¿s Quest to find the secret of Longevity for her Grandmother Betty leads to a monastery in Western Nepal and to a false Shambhala before realizing that within her own heart is the medicine to bring her Grandsy back to life.
As time passes, more and more I see the Ray spirit as a world-changing altruism.
These stories are my way of supporting the mischievous, nature-loving, storytelling, world-changing, questing part of each of us - no matter our age.