Sandy LeonVest has, over the course of her writing career, been a poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, political journalist - radio and print - and the editor/publisher of SolarTimes (solartimes.org), a groundbreaking energy publication and newspaper distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from 2006 through 2013.Today she spends most of her time writing poetry and fiction, which she believes was "who she meant to be all along."Sandy's poems capture the spirit of the 21st century, with all of its circularities and contradictions - fathomless beauty and incomprehensible ugliness; infinite joy and endless grieving; and the inevitability of "the ever-spinning circle." 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.Those who love literature will be tempted to read these exquisitely poignant and readable poems over and over again - to themselves or out loud to each other - by candlelight, or moonlight, or sitting outside at sunset with a glass of Chardonnay ...