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Hi and welcome to Facebook Live.  My name is Ruth and I have some news to share this evening.

Remember about a year ago?  I self-published a book called Smaller than us, alongside the brilliant photographer, Carolina Murari.  Well….here’s the second edition.  Yes, we’re calling it the second edition. 

Please note some changes.  Look at the spine here…with the title in off brown, almost orange colour there going down the side.  And look, here’s a blurb on the back. 

It says…“Smaller than us” is a collection of short stories, flash fiction and vignettes from Ruth Powell accompanied by a selection of photographs by Carolina Murari.  The stories are fictionalised versions of nearly factual events and the photos are representations of moments, seen only by the photographer.  The piece of work is a series of snapshots of moments and reflections of memories from two different observers at two separate times.  Despite the geographical and historical disparity, the observers not the common thread of humanity, which links us together, and highlights our connections over our variations.

Best of all, please note we have our very own ISBN down here at the bottom.  I’ll read the number for you:  978 1 5272 6924 8

You can buy a copy of this second edition at the Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin (just over the Ha’ Penny Bridge on the north side of the quays).  Or, you can leave me a message and I’ll get a copy to you.  But if you do live in Dublin it would be amazing to support the Winding Stair and buy this book, or other books if you like, from this gorgeous bookshop.

Lastly, then, I’ll read something from the book.

Giving thanks at the National Botanic Gardens, in Glasnevin, in Dublin.  In January.

“Thank you for my life” I said to the South American cacti in the glasshouse in Glasnevin.

“I know it’s not mine to own, it’s just on loan, and I’m fine with that”.

“Thank you for my life” I said to the graceful orchid and resplendent snowdrop.

To the magnificent hibiscus, I said, “thank you most of all”.

“I especially adore the sound of your name.  It gives me such pleasure to say it.

Hibiscus.

Hibiscus.

Hibiscus.

Gentle mysteries of the soil and air, thank you”.

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