Of Ether and Earth
by Nolo Segundo
Paperback: $19
As with Nolo’s first book in 2020, The Enormity of Existence, Of Ether and Earth focuses on three primary themes: The not so brave new world of aging; that truly inscrutable emotion that greeting cards trivialize as “love”; and the awareness Nolo has had since having had an near death experience, when Nolo almost drowned in a Vermont river at age 24. Nolo went into that river believing only matter was real, and death meant extinction; Nolo came out knowing he has and is a consciousness that predates birth and survives death, what poets once call a soul.