In her poetry anthology "Roots in Water", Kathy Johnson captured the simple moments in life that matter the most: the love and passion for what we do.
"The only thing you take with you at the end of your life is your love, not your bank notes, not your honors, not your book," she said in the For the Love of Books Podcast episode hosted by author Emma Palova.
As a Chaplain for the local hospice in the Copper Country of the Upper Peninsula, Johnson has met her final inspiration. "The saddest people are those who have given up on various things in life.
I've come away from death more alive to human beings, the world, and self-worth."
A stanza from Kathy Johnson's poem "Ceremony" shows the poet's passion for life.
As the seasons turn
One to the next, so we travel
From East to West.
We rise and flow with the years.
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