The Heart of My Soul

The Heart of My Soul is a collection of family vignettes, snippets from cabin journals and guest books, individual reflections on changing times and aging, photo collages, published articles, short poems, and a Haiku covering outhouse etiquette! Each generation added wit, hard-work, and continues to carry on stewardship of “our little piece of heaven.” Each time the screen door creaks, a new adventure is about to begin or a memory has just been made. 

Author Janet Kurtz was six months old when her parents first dipped her toes into Lake Julia. Thus began the imprinting of a lifetime steeped in nature, environmental stewardship, and the plain joy of being out-of-doors. The cabin was a pristine sanctuary, with its natural shorelines, milkweeds and monarchs, managed forest and participation in monitoring water quality until the news of acid rains brought health warnings limiting their consumption of fish! The sense of protected privacy was replaced by undeniable interconnectedness with global behaviors. The cabin is more than family stories. It is a legacy of stewardship going into the future.

by Janet Kurtz
Paperback; 6x9 inches
222 pages; full color (190 images)
ISBN: 978-1-958150-37-5