Falling Light and Waters Turning: Adventures in Being Human in Word and Image

Falling Light and Waters Turning is a magnificent story of a woman discovering her artistic nature part-way through life, and pursuing it. In her forties, she went back to school and got a BA in Art, after raising her three children and struggling through a midlife crisis in which she searched to find herself. Her journey of healing took on new energy and direction when she reconnected with an old love, photography, and discovered a feedback relationship to herself, through art, that she had never had before.

This memoir is filled with stories of Mary's unusual childhood traveling the world, her transformation of her life through art and teaching, her lyrical poetic prose, and her stunning photos—more than 200 of them, some color some black and white. Falling Light and Waters Turning is a book that many different kinds of people can enjoy, relate to, and perhaps find echoes of some of their own life's trials and triumphs.