Chance Encounters: Poems

A new collection from Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ celebrating the people and circumstances who help make us what we are.

"For several months in 2020, I awoke most days at 3:00 a.m. to a mind busily at work; my own, of course. I had a choice to make, ignore it or explore it. Vivid memories, pictures really, of people I once knew climbed from the depth of my subconscious where I'd cleverly assigned them. They captured my attention, and rightfully so, for I owed them. When we reject our heritage, as I did, because it's not image worthy, we cancel as well those who enhanced our lives. Good people, brave people, wise people, sometimes shady and crooked people, all contribute to our circle of life. To fully understand me, I must include them. Chance Encounters is my thank you to those I carelessly tossed away in quest of shallow acceptability. They're alive once again on the pages of this book. And I'm forever grateful for their vibrant beauty, courage, ingenuity, and fascinating eccentricities. They paid the world the high compliment of being themselves." --Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ


Author: Sister Sharon Hunter
Publisher: Iron Pen/Paraclete Press
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
ISBN: 9781640608467

About the Author
Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ, is a professed religious of more than thirty-five years at the Community of Jesus, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Born in 1947 in the farming region of Western Pennsylvania, Sister Sharon was raised a country girl. Her writing, infused with practical, sometimes stark reality, compliments her desire to offer hope in extreme circumstances, beauty in our sufferings, and assurance that light is always with us.

Sister Anna-Hope Mitchell, CJ, is a religious sister at the Community of Jesus, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art, she has enjoyed many book design and illustration projects over the years.