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18 F LORENCE F ESTIVAL OF B OOKS • S EPT . 24, 2016 Robert Nichols Robert Nichols is a writer, woodcarver, creator of music and lyrics, player of the guitar, banjo and piano, and lover of life. He lives with his wife and daughter, and their strange little dog, Molly, in Lincoln City, Or- egon. When he was fi ft een he determined he would be a writer. His life has been directed toward that end with a variety of wage-earning eff orts paying the way. He’s been a writer/factory worker, a writer/oil fi eld truck driver, a writer/Maytag Man, a writer/packing house laborer, a writer/banjo player, a writer/carpenter, and a writer/junior high and high school English teacher. In the 1990s he lived alone high in the Rocky Mountains sixty miles west of Denver. Five of those years he lived in a tipi. Isolated in the mountains he was free to write, meditate, howl with the winds, and sing with the Gods. For his 70 th birthday, his wife presented him with the results of many months of searching for poems, stories, essays, and songs he had written over 50 years. Most of the pieces were found in an old footlocker which was in the garage. She found poems and stories written in old notebooks, on the back of place mats, on scraps of paper, and on bar napkins. Th ey decided to compile this collected work along with his current writing into a series of books called Th e Footlocker Series. Th ree books have been completed and three more are in the works. Available as e-Books through Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple Books and other distributors ($3.99). Spiral-bound print editions are available for $10 plus $3 S&H Robert Nichols / PO Box 406 / Lincoln City, Oregon 97367 MtMuse44@aol.com / MtMusePublishing.com / CarolsfriendRobertNichols.com about Time: Poems and Other Stories about Mountain Living: Finding a Way about Seasons—the Wind and Weather of Our Days Time Is Stories, poems, and photographs about living high up in the Rocky Mountains. An extreme odys- sey of personal discovery with relevance to the life-journeys of us all. Poems and photographs tell- ing of the subtle, fi erce, and beautiful power of nature in the turning of our seasons. The Way It Was That Day Like leaf children we were that day— scuffl e-tossing, jostling about, scatter-playing— gusting our way home from school. Time is just rhythm, you know. It’s hours, sun, and seasons. The pulse of a song, a heart, lifetimes. Tap your toes, maybe dance to it. Enjoy! Howling with coyote and wild with a prayer, fi lling soul with silence in the mystic mountain air.
