"Niki Collins-Queen''s new book "Earth, the Forgotten Temple" …a spirit quest in the wilderness—is a pleasure to read.
The Houston Home Journal
Lifestyles
November 30, 2000
Janie Singleton, owner of The Perry Bookstore, invites the public to meet author Niki Collins-Queen of Forsyth, Georgia, on Saturday, December 2, from 2:00 to 4:00p.m. Collins-Queen will be a special guest for Christmas at the Cross-roads and will autograph her recently published memoir, "Earth, the Forgotten Temple: A Spirit Quest in the Wilderness".
As a licensed professional counselor Niki Collins-Queen has worked as a children's therapist for twenty years. She began backpacking in the mountains as recreation but found in these solitary wanderings a profound spiritual experience.
Cynthia Woody, in a review published in The Platinum Record, August, 2000, praises this journal of one woman's spiritual quest in the wilderness: "Niki Collins-Queen's new book "Earth, the Forgotten Temple" …a spirit quest in the wilderness - is a pleasure to read. Current books relating a quest for self may be inflated with me-ness and a confusion of self-identification with a high power. Not so in this slender, softbound volume of a Southern woman's willingness to look to nature for meaning, for purpose in the big scheme of things and in the ordinary ventures of living. …This professional counselor of children finds peace, contentment and love within the power and sacred spirit of nature.
A Macon, Georgia, native Niki learns to savor satisfaction from being alive. Her moments of enlightenment about the larger questions of why one is here or what for, are realized in a natural manner; She writes of a spiritual redemption as if it were available to any thoughtful individual willing to let go of cultural demands of success and role-playing.
Explore the mystery of how nature makes unexpected gifts of creative wonders to an unsuspecting caregiver one late night and early morning in southeastern Georgia, USA.
A book of nature inspired poems and essays, written from the heart and soul of a life-long nature, animal, and wilderness lover, and dedicated to today’s children - Earth's only hope for a better tomorrow.
This book won 'The Poetry Category'
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