The question of why certain things continue to matter during times of historic political upheavals, world-destroying wars, extreme climate change events, and painful social tensions is an important one. The answer has to do with how the labors of human imagination and the elusive mysteries of life itself, help us confront some of humanities biggest problems with small surprises.

As stated at the beginning of the first chapter of SONGBIRDS AND ROSES, it all starts with a midnight invasion of seemingly harmless birds. Their raucous sing-song chatter unsettles the well-organized life of a writer, who is also a dedicated caregiver, in a way never anticipated. Frustration eventually gives way to understanding the birds represent something more than infuriating aggravation. They come bearing an unexpected gift that eventually creates a ripple effect of connections and music through different lives and communities. 

The book also features a bonus story in which a bus ride, and a power line filled with resting birds, prompts provocative questions about the choices we make when it comes to putting more faith in violence than in peace.

Readers of such titles by Aberjhani as Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah, These Black and Blue Red Zone Days, and The American Poet Who Went Home Again are familiar with his innovative blends of literary style. Songbirds and Roses provides the perfect opportunity for readers new to his work to discover his captivating fusion of personal essay, literary history, spiritual reflections, poetry, and sociopolitical commentary.

Included within the Kindle eBook (ISBN 979-8-9994482-0-0) of the title are vibrant mixed-media digital color paintings by the author-artist, and original black and white newspaper documentation of a key catalytic event. Similarly, the paperback edition (ISBN 979-8-9994482-1-7) features dramatic black and white renderings of the original color plates. More than simple illustrations of the story, they provide an experience of extra-sensory immersion capable, to an extent, of duplicating the shared adventure as the author-poet-artist first experienced it.