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Hope This Finds You: Letters From a Friend Paperback – November 13, 2022

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Every Monday for over twenty years, David Smith has written open letters to the world in his Monday Moanin’ column. At the end of each essay, he sends his readers out into the week ahead with a single wish: “Hope this finds you …” It may be “leaning into possible,” “telling stories,” or “imagining,” but embodied in the wish is the essence of Mary Oliver’s instructions for life: “Pay attention. Be Astonished. Tell about it.”

Hope This Finds You is a collection of letters from a friend, journeying your wild and precious life beside you. Here are the memories, the celebrations, and the joy and ache of living, threaded through glimpses of extraordinary-ordinary daily life. It’s a small gift of gratitude to a life filled with light and mystery, possible and promise.

Each section of the book allows the reader to find a place to escape, to enjoy a laugh, or think for a while, or simply sit with and wonder. Those that love the lyrical Brian Doyle or the laughs from Dave Berry will find a home in Hope This Finds You.
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    November 13, 2022
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    5.25 x 0.67 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-13
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BM42BDBW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Starlings Press (November 13, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8986734101
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.67 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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David Scott Smith

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David Scott Smith is the author of HOPE THIS FINDS YOU, a collection of essays from his weekly Monday Moanin’ column. David's essays have been shared every Monday since 1999. He was a humor columnist for the Flint Journal and has written for Runner’s World. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Red Quill Award, conferred to a rare few in Mrs. Ahearn’s Fifth Grade class. He is a dedicated storyteller at the Moth and will not resist the urge anywhere else. He spends his free time in Michigan running, exploring, watching the sunrise, and searching for the perfect cup of coffee.

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Sara H. Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Uplifting
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2023
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This is a “feel good” book that humbled me and made me so much more appreciative of every moment of every day - of every person I have ever met - of every road I’ve ever traveled.

The author guides us as he shares with us his insights and keen awareness of everything that is going on around him wherever he is in that moment.

Parts were written during COVID quarantine; parts from various times throughout his lives, parts from holiday insights.

If you need some inspiration (and who among us. doesn’t..) pick up this collection of short well written musings of every one of our days.
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Sabrina K.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to start your day
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023
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I have looked forward to reading David Smith’s Monday Moanin’ columns for several years. What a treat to have a compilation of his work in his new book, “Hope This Finds You: Letters From a Friend.” His writing is thought-provoking, funny, at times bittersweet, but always insightful. Taking just a few minutes to read every morning is a great way to start my day.
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JT
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and nourishing
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022
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"Then he said to me, 'Son of man eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.' So I ate it and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth." Ezekiel 3. No, David Scott Smith is not God writing scriptures but his writing is inspired and tastes as sweet as honey.
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Jennifer Sharrer
5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2022
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The author has a special way of taking you on his life adventures with him. He made me laugh and cry, but always leaves you with a positive message. I loved that each chapter is short so you can read as much or little as time allows. You will be left feeling lifted by his beautiful writing.
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Brooke Gifford
5.0 out of 5 stars What an uplifting book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2022
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I have been reading two or three chapters every day. I laugh. I cry. The insights and inspiration David offers in these stories are daily gems. I have truly loved every page. You will not be disappointed.
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JT Wolfe
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure delight!
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022
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Beautiful and very readable essays about situations that are immediately recognizable but the author’s insights magically flips the ordinary into the extraordinary. His writing invites you to look at life’s daily gifts, troubles, habits and emotions in ways that surprisingly transform your soul.
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Shirley Cunningham
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2023
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Great uplifting true life short stories. Enjoyed every page.
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lawn_wrangler
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful collection of essays
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2023
I was given a copy of Hope This Finds You as a gift from someone who knows what I like to read—someone I’ve exchanged Wendell Berry books with, for example. Which, actually, is an apt comparison, because there’s a warmth to David Smith’s book that reminds me of the earthy, comfortable richness of Berry’s work.

The essays span decades of Smith’s writing career and cover subjects from home maintenance and running (Smith is an accomplished marathoner) to raising kids, death and grief. Smith’s love of nature comes through in almost every essay, and I love the way he relishes each season and how the surrounding landscape and wildlife change. We contemplate with Smith the splendor of mountains and the sun setting over the Great Lakes. But we also gaze outside his kitchen window, or at piles of laundry and dishes, the stuff and the situations of everyday life.

Life, really, is the subject of the book. And gratitude is the basic posture, a habit of thinking that Smith has cultivated over the years of his life, it seems. In a world that conspires daily to stoke impatience and suspicion and fear and outrage—to drain the world of its magic—this book invites us to slow down, look around with renewed wonder and give thanks. Smith reminds us that the seemingly mundane activities and settings of daily life actually are charged with meaning and beauty and provide us with infinite occasions to express our appreciation.

In her novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson wrote: “It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance—for a moment or a year or the span of a life. … Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.”

Smith beckons us to be willing to see the everyday world charged with significance—a long run on a chilly day, a quiet morning kayaking, a visit to our home town, time spent repainting the house, the variegated personalities of little children.

Actually, I’m reminded of another writer whose vivid imagination and wise observations taught us to revel in the beauty of nature, the change of seasons, and the many gifts of everyday life: Bill Watterson. In their very last appearance, Calvin and Hobbes, perched atop a sledding hill, look out at the freshly fallen snow: “It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on,” Hobbes says. Calvin concurs: “A day full of possibilities! It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!”

I’d bet David Smith greets each day like a blank sheet of paper to be filled up with adventures, both epic and quotidian. And his book is an invitation to join him. I’ll be revisiting Hope This Find You to refresh that sense of gratitude for our enchanted world.
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