During challenging and shifting times, it is important to keep focused on the future we want to construct. What we think has power. Our lives can be joy-filled, beautiful and courageous. The world can be peaceful, harmonious and kind. When we envision a positive future we begin to create it.



In a series of inspiring essays, poetry and short stories “Beauty Is the Messenger” invites us to step outside our limiting thoughts and imagine a new world.



About the Author:

Deborah Rodney has been a juggler, an actress, a social activist, the founder and director of three theater companies, a teamwork trainer for a major computer company, a communications specialist on HIV-AIDS in Guyana and St. Vincent and a writer and director of documentaries and tourism programs in the Caribbean. She has written 14 plays for children on environmental and social issues which toured to hundreds of Oregon schools and has published four children’s books. She lives in Portland, Oregon, USA and St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Eastern Caribbean. A Reiki Master in the tradition of Usui Shiki Ryoho since 1992, she is deeply grateful for the places it takes her. She is writing a novel and can be reached at debrodney@gmail.com.



ISBN 13: 978-0-9824215-9-8

ISBN 10: 0-9824215-9-1