Sunday, December 6, 2020

First Chapter Review: THE COLOR OF TOGETHER by Milton Brasher-Cunningham @miltybc #Nonfiction #Christian #firstchapterreview

by thewriterslife on December 06, 2020

Thanks for visiting Literarily Speaking! Today's post is a first chapter review of THE COLOR OF TOGETHER: MIXED METAPHORS OF CONNECTEDNESS by Milton Brasher-Cunningham. First, a little about the book....

The Color of Together: Mixed Metaphors of Connectedness
Milton Brasher Cunningham
Light Messages Publishing
160 pp.
Christian Nonfiction

The Color of Together begins with the primary colors of life–grief, grace, and gratitude–and enlarges the palette to talk about the work of art that is our life together in these days. The idea for the book began with understanding that grief is not something we get over or work through, but something we learn to move around in–something that colors our lives. Grace is the other given. Gratitude is the response to both that offers the possibility of both healing and hope.

FAVORITE QUOTE FROM FIRST CHAPTER:

"It is a sacred space of disquietude; a turbulent silence where things are still and vibrant in the same moment."

BOOK COVER:

Love it...shows the color wheel and its many derivatives of color...reminds me of that paint commercial.

FIRST CHAPTER REVIEW:

This was a great introduction for this book! It begins with the author talking about a color wheel and how they started out with the three basic colors - red, blue and yellow - to get other colors derived from those three. The author notes, "The purples, greens, and oranges that filled in the circle illustrated the relationships between the primaries, which stood in such contrast to one another on their own. Wherever we started on the wheel, there was a connection, a way to get to the other colors." Basically this was the gist of the author's message throughout the first chapter - how colors can be used as a tool to understand relationships and other human emotions as a whole.

KEEP READING?

I'm intrigued. I would love to find out where this book is going to take me...it's very spiritually-minded and that in itself makes it captivating.

Pick up your copy!

Amazon → https://amzn.to/30Urxsj

Barnes & Noble → https://bit.ly/3jZ8OD6

Meet The Author

Milton Brasher-Cunningham was born in Texas, grew up in Africa, and has spent the last thirty years in New England and North Carolina. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and has worked as a high school English teacher, a professional chef, a trainer for Apple, and is now an editor. He is the author of three books, Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal, This Must Be the Place: Reflections on Home, and his latest, The Color of Together.

He loves the Boston Red Sox, his mini schnauzers, handmade music, and feeding people. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with Ginger, his wife, and their three Schnauzers. He writes regularly at donteatalone.com.