The Sound of Diamonds: A Modern Anthology about Life Around Puget Sound

What does living around present-day Puget Sound in western Washington and growing up in New Jersey across the Hudson River from the Big Apple have to do with the latest crop of pictures being beamed down to Earth from the James Webb Space Telescope? Everything, according to the author of The Sound of Diamonds. This book is an anthology of stories by Bill Barker that provides a mix of autobiography, history, and commentary on the issues and complexities of modern-day life--stories that he believes collectively suggest what science seems to be pointing to today: that we are all, in fact, inextricably connected to this universe as far back as we can see into it. This is an old concept, passed down through the ages. Ironically, it was perhaps an early nineteenth-century poet rather than a modern-day physicist who best described this incredible idea. In the words of William Blake (1757-1827):
Each grain of sand,
Every stone in the land,
Each rock and each hill,
Each fountain and rill,
Each herb and each tree,
Mountain, hill, earth, and sea,
Cloud, meteor, and star,
Are men seen afar.

Author: Bill Barker
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 01/27/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781667878096
ISBN10: 1667878093
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author
Bill Barker hails from the greatest Garden State (New Jersey) in our union. The US Navy sailed him out to the Evergreen State (Washington) a while back, washing him ashore as a civilian once more beside the sublime South Salish Sea (for which he is most grateful) after a somewhat exhilarating seven-year stint in its storied submarine service. He has steadfastly refused to live anywhere else ever since. Having retired from the US Postal Service, Bill now simply considers himself a "man of letters" of a different type.