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Recent Reviews for Gianetta Ellis

Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads (Book) - 6/2/2009 2:41:30 PM
"Stewards of Spirit achieved within the first 60 days of publication a position of number 16 on Amazon’s list of “hot new releases” under the “inspirational” category." Holy burning wood smoke! That is like an almost unheard of feat for a "new" writer. Who was the publisher. I never escaped being "buried" along with all the other POD historical novels. Well you are a professor. I'm not in literary circles. Don't be so "self-depreciating" this is something marvelous. And that cover is a 10. What I'm wondering is where on your site(s) can I find any excerpts of the "Rachel's Ballads'? Sounds so Appalachian and i crave that. (i.e. Like David Hightower) Later, michael

Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads (Book) - 9/6/2008 3:30:37 PM
Gianetta ~ Congratulations on the spiritual journey through natures spirits1 I would be truly moved to own this book! As I will be attempting as God is willing in a few weeks! I like your philosophy very much and we are ALL entwined through the energy of each other! I totally agree and many will need to read - to know.... WRITE-ON! Warmest Blessings and Inner Peace, Warrior Purple Soulful SHEExooo STay Positive! Let us all be in the ZONE together, reaching for peace and it's highest desires! As I try to put out through my poetry too! Amen! STeward of Spirit! Great and important Title and a Triology - Great idea!

Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads (Book) - 7/15/2008 12:07:15 PM
What a powerful topic! Yes, only in our connection to nature can we be truly authentic and aware of our guiding spiritual connection.

Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads (Book) - 3/24/2008 11:03:54 AM
Stewards of Spirit touched me immediately as more than just the tale of Rachel. Gianetta your carefully constructed prologue set the stage for me, to see into the sonnets of Rachel. I experienced the sonnets as both beautiful and lyrical to read, and they were expressed with emotional depths, linking one to the next telling a personal story. My personal favorites exist in volume II, “My mothers Words” and Unseen Glories”. The epilogue is instructional, assisting me to acknowledge the greater lesson of “being” the authentic self. “Awakening in the Light of Rachel’s Ballads”, is a perfect companion to bask one’s thoughts into, as it reflects the personal harmony with the greater world all around us in nature, which will acknowledge your thoughts with the simplest of breezes or song of a bird at just the right moment to make you smile out loud; reminding you that you are awakening to a greater reality. Anyone sensing they are on the path to higher consciousness will find comfort in this book, and for those who are so involved in everyday, stressed to their limits, will find the knowledge within these pages, to live a more satisfying life. I will reread and adore its pages often.

Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads (Book) - 2/9/2008 4:46:56 AM
Sounds like a truly interesting and inspiring book, Gianetta.

The Princess and the Deer (Short Story) - 11/1/2008 6:14:28 PM
Lovely story, and I am sure your daughter wants to hear this one many times. CarolHawks

The Princess and the Deer (Short Story) - 7/15/2008 10:28:00 PM
God is in the details, My favorite line was "The deer tucked his head and extendd his front leg as in in bow" beatifully written and expressed story it inspired me Cordially Alain Thanks for your wonderful comments on my poems

The Princess and the Deer (Short Story) - 5/20/2008 4:41:22 PM
That's a beautiful little story that should have high appeal for your daughter and other children. It is like the beginnings of traditional fairy tales...Jerry

The Princess and the Deer (Short Story) - 1/26/2008 8:46:28 AM
A wonderful story. I've spent many hours at sundown being near and among deer at the edge of our golf course at our remote travel trailer park in Punta Gorda Florida USA. I've never been able to get close enough to touch one, but I've spent enough time doing this that the deer are no longer frightened of me and I can pass by on my walk and they will continue to grazing and brouse. s/henry

The Princess and the Deer (Short Story) - 1/13/2008 5:49:17 PM
Sweet write. Thank you for sharing it and best wishes with your book/s. Love and peace to you, Regis

Alone by the Lake (Article) - 10/6/2009 5:05:15 PM
All good.

Alone by the Lake (Article) - 10/6/2009 4:16:51 PM
Yes, thank you for sharing a beautifully written personal essay that many writers can relate to. ~leslie

Alone by the Lake (Article) - 10/6/2009 10:40:57 AM
What a lovely entry and opening up of your thoughts and emotions. Thank you for sharing a little of your special place. hugs fee

Alone by the Lake (Article) - 10/6/2009 2:29:30 AM
This is every bit a poem -- and more. I've been here and thought these thoughts, but not nearly as eloquently as you have. Maybe you could/should take this and adapt it into one of your poetry gems. Just a suggestion. JD

Alone by the Lake (Article) - 10/5/2009 9:56:25 PM
Gina, reading this has come at a strange point in my life...for I have recently arrived at where you are now. Over the course of the last nine months, I have watched myself grow and learn more about myself...what makes me happy and what doesn't....what is important in my life and what isn't. I have always been a person who has "taken care" of others...and while I think that that is good and important, I now believe that it's important to take care of "self,"...for in doing that, we become more to others...those that are important in our lives. "Alone," is a good place to be...and it took me a long time to learn that "alone" doesn't have to be "lonely." Beautiful writing...you always give cause to think, and I like that, very much.

Alone by the Lake (Article) - 10/5/2009 4:54:43 PM
Some good and powerful thoughts, Gina. I very much relate. I, too, am spending a great deal of time alone at present, and I seem to have raised my self-awareness to a level I never knew before was possible. I refer sometimes in my reviews of others that they should look to their inwards, or that they have done so, instead of judging all by their outwards. You probably are someone who can relate to the meaning of this. It is in our inwards that we come to grips with the truths of spirituality, and can hear the voice of God. I was driving along this week, contemplating the black birds feeling the first chill in the fall air, and all of the sights associated with this. Suddenly I felt a great feeling of lonliness as a part of the season within myself, and I came home to write the poem Season's Climax which I posted this week. I somewhat feel like I wrote a tribute to the Book of Ecclesiastics which I will have to get out to read again. For every purpose, there is a season......Jerry

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/5/2009 5:06:55 AM
Gianetta - You have expressed the feeling of home, a place where we feel that we belong, wonderfully. - David

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/2/2009 1:43:44 PM
I like this very much. I felt I was there and yes I have had these wonderful epiphany's as well. Thank you for sharing Cheers Alain

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/2/2009 1:17:35 PM
Very good, Gina. It is good to read another's poetry in prose and feelings of serenity in the warmth of the home area. I have felt much the same, and I am adapting to my new home area in life, but I always feel a longing sadness to be with my first home as it once was. It is good to know you are a part of a certain place on the earth.. Places have spirit, too......Jerry

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/2/2009 11:00:10 AM
Gina, your prose too sings with lovely poetry. -gene.

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/2/2009 10:15:58 AM
You expressed such a wonderful feeling of contentment and serenity in knowing your place in this existance. Beautifully done Gina. hugs fee

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/2/2009 9:46:06 AM
Gianetta, I feel like I walked down that lane with you. Your writing is so vivid, I can even see my own footprints in the dirt road. ~leslie

Thoughts on Home (Article) - 10/2/2009 9:30:37 AM
Gina, this is so so beautiful and rings of the true spirit of this season. Makes me feel like having a warm cup of hot cider by the fire. Happy Autumn!

Why Gina Does What She Does and Is Who She Is (Article) - 5/15/2009 4:06:58 PM
Dear Gina, I think your mission of an environmentalist aware woman of these days is commendable, especially being a wonderful role model for your precious daughter, Gianetta...the picture of you two is priceless! It was very creatively posed to represent freedom and independence...I respect your work and your creative effort. I would like to see you promote your work on Authors Den more often. Your work is well worth an audience and you can attain a wider fan base by posting more of these types of articles. It's women like you who make a difference to Mother Earth by promoting environmentalist issues and raising awareness...Blessed Be. Warmly, Sage

Why Gina Does What She Does and Is Who She Is (Article) - 5/12/2009 3:50:48 AM
your heart is absolutely in the right place, your daughter is a lucky girl and you a lucky woman.

Why Gina Does What She Does and Is Who She Is (Article) - 5/11/2009 10:48:55 PM
Gina, as a mom, I have to tell you that I agree with you 100% and have tried to live my life in much the same way. You are truly to be admired...and what a beautiful photo!

Why Gina Does What She Does and Is Who She Is (Article) - 5/11/2009 4:02:51 PM
Amen, Gina. I wish that somebody had been able to imbue this down into my heart where I really hung onto to it as a child, and I wish that somehow I had been better able to instill it in my own children. You are blessed in these realizations at a relatively young age. At the age I suspect you are, I had glimmers, but failed to follow through. I like your ideas of realizing the value of ego without allowing it to control you. I let too much of the hurt and pain of life kick me down. I think I have only come of late to realize that I actually am a gifted person, and it seems I still need too much of the verification of others to realize it actually is true. I have a problem in accepting it as a reality without encouragement. I am afraid I have waited for this realization too late in life when I may not live long enough to see what should have been come true. I find it hard to realize that I am 62 years old, Gina, not young anymore, but not old enough to be ancient. I am probably in good physical health, but many of the mental pains of life can weigh me down if I am not careful. Your observations are full of wisdom, and of poignancy for those who heeded them not in their own hearts soon enough. God bless you and your daughter......Jerry

Why Gina Does What She Does and Is Who She Is (Article) - 5/11/2009 8:52:10 AM
The legacy you will leave your daughter will be the experience of a heart and soul being true to itself. You are a strong and wonderful women who found the strengh to follow your dreams even when obstacles both real and imagined were placed in your way. that little girl has a loving mother who will teach her to reach for the stars but also to be able to get up brush herself off and try again if at first she doesn't reach high enough. Very interesting and self reflective write my friend. hugs to you and your little one, Fee

Yes (Poetry) - 11/20/2009 6:44:22 PM
a slow assimilation - me into you; you are a dangerous place. But such a sought and sweet dangerous place, no? So nicely expressed, Gianetta. Love and best wishes, Regis

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/12/2009 2:07:27 PM
Fabulous weaving together of humanity and nature in this poem, Gina, with soulful gleanings and tender imagery. Very unique in both perception and concept. I love how tactile this feels - the contrasts between the velvety textures and light, and the more knobbly naked! :)) Wonderful contrasting moods of both acceptance and reservation, of bravely stepping into something, yet tentatively holding back. This is another of your writes that teeters on a cusp, keeping its poise and balance beautifully. Breathtaking, thank you - and love Gene's poignant comment below, too. xx

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/10/2009 8:54:16 PM
Gina, in the November of my years, my words are inadequate in any attempt to tell you how much this lovely poem means to me. -gene.

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/10/2009 11:09:13 AM
This is a poem that challenges in waves of thought and analogy, the baring of the season and the baring of the soul to what lies beneath. It's like a revery that baits you to hold your breath through the end yet challenges you and challenges you again with the thoughts. From "withered is not ugly to" "wrinkled faith to its accepting breezes" we are challenged with the spiritual insight of acceptance, that all is not as it appears, and then again the comparison of season again and the changing with self knowledge that more spiritual revelation awaits. Beautifully written and thought out to bring home the depth of your own self to share with the reader in that person's gain of insight.........Jerry

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/10/2009 4:23:22 AM
Very well written, Gianetta

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/7/2009 7:02:10 PM
From a sumptuous 'velvet evening' opening to a 'conscious crone' and on to 'disrobing in the cold' (I used to be able to feel that) your range of atmosphere is very finely rendered and the feelings of the reader honed and put on edge, and the spirit challenged to think deep and more than twice...and then to round it off that, for me at least, enigmatic, tantalising ending. In sincere admiration, Gina, John

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/7/2009 5:17:28 PM
Truly a great write with an innocence of time Gianetta. Newfie Hugs, Rose

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/7/2009 3:38:01 AM
I love the way that you can see beauty in almost anything. Most of us associate the late autumn after the disappearance of the leaves as a rather grotesque time of the year. But what you convey is the feeling that this period is one that has its own inner solace. I'm reminded of the movie "The Bear" when the old bear and the cub go to the den for the winter. There is such a feeling of comfort in the idea of going to sleep and letting the world go away while we languish in our own inner sanctum. This is a wonderful work Gina.

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/6/2009 9:53:21 PM
my pagan heart is always warmed by your nature settings Gianetta

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/6/2009 9:21:40 PM
very heavey dark but yet appealing to a nerve of curiousity

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/6/2009 6:57:46 PM
like disrobing in the cold and letting night drape itself around a waning frame revealing lesions, bags and wrinkled faith to its accepting breezes; this is lovely writing

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/6/2009 6:42:01 PM
Truly a most engaging write, Gianetta; it seems most appropriate for time of day and season alike. Thank you. Love and best wishes, Regis

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/6/2009 5:43:14 PM
VERY, VERY IMPRESSIVE. ENJOYED. THANKS FOR SHARING AND BLESSINGS. JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

The Baring Season (Poetry) - 11/6/2009 5:40:08 PM
I like this one Gina, it has a depth of emotion to it. I can feel the age of the body but not the spiritual age of what one is inside. Very thought provoking. hugs fee

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/18/2009 4:24:25 PM
You've caught me here, Gina. How often I have been the one singing the oaf song to myself. Then a friend told me, "The problem with you, Jerry, is that you think too much. The wheels aren't turning that fast in other people." You and I may be a little alike in this regard. The person with the neon grace and assured presence probably doesn't have the awareness of life that you do as witnessed to you in my poem that you so graciously have already reviewed, "Elegance Alabaster." Your poetry and description here are indeed superb, your use of the language with its pauses a true song. May you know this early in your life that you are brilliant without it leading to a condescending lack of your soul. It simply is what is without any need to not feel on the humble level of all of humanity, a recognition of your gifts from God........Jerry

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/14/2009 9:04:46 AM
unrefined, uncouth, and uncultured...hah! to quote my friend, John Flannagan, "This is superb poetry." -gene.

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/14/2009 5:18:41 AM
Excellent imagery. But here's something else to consider: What REALLY matters is on the inside....plus, brass is likely to last longer than crystal. I'm just sayin'....... JD

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/13/2009 2:22:31 PM
I cannot imagine your talent being compared to a brass mug, however, I can relate to thinking of oneself that way in the presence of someone we admire. Very well written poem. ~leslie

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/12/2009 10:42:29 PM
hmmm...as if brass mugs were something of less value to crystal? it is only in our minds we judge ourselves far harsher than we love... underneath it all...every being radiates a wonderfulness :)...kudos on a creative expression..love the "faux pas in waiting" line :)

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/12/2009 8:53:09 AM
i don't think this applies to you either but have sure felt that way myself-a very creative and well written poem

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/12/2009 7:04:39 AM
a polished introspective poem which skillfully traverses a transitional state of mind imparted with doubt and admiration ...

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/12/2009 3:24:12 AM
I was born an oaf and have been ever since. I use to try and overcome this tendency to be clumsy socially and physically. But nowadays I revel in it. I celebrate my oafishness and have turned it to my self-perceived advantage although I am sure that others do not see it that way. But I no longer care. I am who I am. I am faux pas incarnate and I look upon your beautifully pieced words as an anthem.

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/12/2009 1:21:34 AM
J'nia, I could never imagine you as an oaf, oh lady of graceful charms and charming grace, but yes I have felt this way a few times in my lifetime. hugs fee

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/11/2009 10:13:59 PM
Oh, yes Gina, I have. This is written so very well...your use of words, wonderful! The way this is written, almost makes those of us that have felt this way from time to time, "okay"...because of your use of language. This goes into my library.

Oaf Song (Poetry) - 10/11/2009 5:34:22 PM
Gina, There is rendering and exquisite rendering and I know which this is and anyone who is lucky enough to read this poem knows, too. In the presence of calm and greatness we often become self-conscious and self-examining, but those last three lines, brilliantly written, are definitely not you. This is superb poetry. John