Made Holy: Essays
Made Holy: Essays , is now available from UGAPress , IndieBound, Barnes&Noble , or Amazon ! So many of these essays began here at this blog, rising out of the moment I occupied, the feelings that flooded me, that brooded and swirled through the landscape of memory. We become ourselves through stories and it takes years to shape them, years of becoming. So much gratitude to all who travel this road with me. Hope you enjoy the book! "Made Holy satisfies a reader’s longing, quenches a thirst for beauty won from suffering, or peace from travail. Here is Emily Arnason Casey’s life, or parts of it, but more, here is her art made of words that refer to and call back and make sense of her life, which is a life, like all lives, rife with struggle and disappointment and lasting memories of pain, all of which she explores with a gentle nostalgia and unrestrained love. The essays here ultimately bring light and goodness, hope and joy, all synonyms for the holiness we all seek
