Milton Brasher-Cunningham The Color of Together Author Event at Breakwater Books
Date and Time
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, October 14th, 5 PM
Location
19 Church Street, Guilford, CT
Website
Description
Please join us on Wednesday, October 14th at 5:00pm (rain date October 16th). Breakwater Books is pleased to host an outdoor book-signing with Milton Brasher-Cunningham, author of The Color of Together, with a short reading and discussion beforehand.
“We lose our vocabulary for gratitude when fear becomes our common vernacular. We lose the words that matter most, and, as a result, we lose part of our humanity.”
–From The Color of Together
Milton Brasher-Cunningham has written a book that speaks to one of the greatest challenges facing us today. How do we live together when so much seems bent on driving us apart?
“The chance we have to find strains of grace and hope and love—even gratitude,” Milton writes, “comes in solidarity and the sharing of our stories, not in the measuring of them one against the other.”
When his father died, Milton learned that grief was a primary color of life. That truth is as old as the human story, but was new to him. The Color of Together explores the metaphor more fully, looking at the primary colors of life, which he names as grief, grace, and gratitude, and then expanding the palette to describe some of the other hues that make us human.
The book is a conversation between his personal stories, authors who have been mentors from the page, biblical accounts, and a variety of metaphors that allow us to see the colors of life in different lights and contexts. It is a story that started in grief and continues in hope.
Milton Brasher-Cunningham was born in Texas, grew up in Africa, and has spent the last thirty years in New England and North Carolina. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and has worked as a high school English teacher, a professional chef, a trainer for Apple, and is now an editor. He is the author of three books, Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal, This Must Be the Place: Reflections on Home, and his latest, The Color of Together. He loves the Boston Red Sox, his mini schnauzers, handmade music, and feeding people. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with Ginger, his wife, and their three Schnauzers. He writes regularly at donteatalone.com.
This event will be held outdoors behind the barn at 19 Church Street, Guilford, CT 06437. We are limiting the number of attendees and requiring pre-registration by email or telephone. To keep everyone safe, masks will be required and socially measures will be adhered to.
Books will be available at the store starting on the publication date, October 13, 2020 but we are taking pre-orders now. We encourage guests to pre-purchase books by phone or email. Purchases at the event will be by credit card, cash or check only.
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