The Passing Light is in production

Our Pennsylvania Voices Transforming Poverty Series forms a set of books dedicated to feeding the hungry and ending poverty. Thank you, God, for food, shelter, and Patti Pasda with the gift of survival from cancer to aid others through prayer, painting and writing. Patti continues to guide through her many books paintings and lectures for children as well as adults.
During the early months of 2009, contemplation and prayer on the land where I live promoted me to write a diary, a paradigm for The Passing Light. I visited special places that inspired me to retain hope as I experienced life changes such as job shifts, illness, and the death of my parents. The land between rivers emerged as a template and voice to tell a story that carries hope. I came to know poverty during the twentieth century. My father experienced her during the Black March in Eastern Europe and my mother found her in the confines of a childhood in the coal regions of Pennsylvania with her.

To end world hunger, we banish selfishness and engender hope through sharing. Share your plenty with others so you engage in peaceful acts to bridge poverty through contentedness. Be happy with less. Care for ourselves with enough to live, eat, breathe, and give away as much to those in need. Care for brothers and sister of the world community. To banish poverty we banish fear.
Poverty causes a myriad of health issues including blindness which we address in our novel. Jonathan’s blindness is representational of all disabilities which do not lessen human dignity, but instead act as a gift to build the human need for dependency and faith.
We use our imaginations to design an historical background of poverty as she finds a voice in the fictional tale of Jonathan who survives a tumultuous time in Ireland but seeks new life in America. Cultural Legacy of Poverty befits culture, a global culture that resounds with those of all nations, overcoming poverty through educational transformation; conclusions in our story vary from the gift of faith and hope to the action of purpose in serving others.
Italics represent the inner consciousness of the creator of The Passing Light, Margaret, who is a semi-autobiographical representation of the authors.
MaryAnn Pasda DiEdwardo