{"id":8,"date":"2015-07-08T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2016-01-31T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T23:12:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy LeonVest: LETTERS FROM HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Sandy LeonVest has a way of plucking the unimagined from the unimaginable and making it so we can hear it too.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>\u2013 Mimi German<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sandy LeonVest has, over the course of her<a href=\"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SandyBookCover3D4-e1448036232877.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SandyBookCover3D4-e1448036232877.png\" alt=\"Letters From Home: Message to a Heartbroken World\" width=\"150\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a> writing career, been a poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, political journalist \u2013 radio and print \u2013 and the editor\/publisher of SolarTimes (<a href=\"http:\/\/solartimes.org\" target=\"_blank\">solartimes.org<\/a>), a groundbreaking energy publication and newspaper distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from 2006 through 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Today she spends most of her time writing poetry and fiction, which she believes was &#8220;who she meant to be all along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Sandy&#8217;s poems capture the spirit of the 21st century, with all of its circularities and contradictions \u2013 fathomless beauty and incomprehensible ugliness; infinite joy and endless grieving; and the inevitability of &#8220;the ever-spinning circle.&#8221; Sorrowful endings followed by new beginnings. Her poetic voice seems to channel the poets of long ago, at once emanating from another era, yet echoing universal and timeless themes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Those who love literature will be tempted to\u00a0read these exquisitely poignant and readable poems over and over again \u2013 to themselves or out loud to each other \u2013 by candlelight, or moonlight, or sitting outside at sunset with a glass of Chardonnay &#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>We are working right now to get this book published!<br \/>\nPlease contribute today.<\/h3>\n<p><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SandyBookCover3D4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SandyBookCover3D4.png\" alt=\"SandyBookCover3D\" width=\"341\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sandy LeonVest has a way of plucking the unimagined from the unimaginable and making it so we can hear it too.&#8221;\u00a0 \u2013 Mimi German Sandy LeonVest has, over the course of her writing career, been a poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, political journalist \u2013 radio and print \u2013 and the editor\/publisher of SolarTimes (solartimes.org), a groundbreaking energy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":104,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}