Countdown to “A Stone for Sascha” Day 2 of 10: The Germinating...

Countdown to “A Stone for Sascha”

Day 2 of 10: The Germinating Seed

In March, 2015, my family and I were living in Granada,
Spain, on a sabbatical abroad. Inspiration was everywhere: in the Alhambra’s
gardens and architecture, in the narrow cobblestone streets to my daughter’s
school, in the distant peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the cool cave
dwellings down the path from our house rental.

A church caught my eye. Its rocks had long ago been the
foundation of a mosque, and before that, an ancient Roman ruin. This structure
had witnessed hundreds of years of human civilization, and here I was just a
temporary visitor, witnessing a mere moment of the ancient city’s life.

My family and I kept traveling around Europe, we toured
windy castles, biked along ancient canals, napped in meadows of wildflowers. It
was idyllic, and when we returned home I was full of inspiration..

I didn’t know it at the time, but all of these experiences
were the seed of something that would take more than a year to birth, going
through it’s own transformation along the way from idea to book.

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Come back tomorrow for part 3: Tales from Andalucia. In the
meantime, it’s not too late to pre-order your signed copy of “A Stone for
Sascha” from my local indie, The Odyssey Bookshop (https://www.odysseybks.com/aaron-becker-books).
Give them a call and let them know to whom you’d like it inscribed. They can
ship it anywhere in the USA. “A Stone for Sascha” publishes Tuesday, May 8th.