Charlie has eighteen books of poetry or prose which are available for purchase. He will add inscriptions of your choice if you wish to create personalized gifts.
In For the Mystically Inclined, Charlie explains some of the journey of "Please Hear What I'm Not Saying" and explains why he decided to let people know who wrote it. The book also includes 384 pages of poems about topics from Christmas to animal friends to gardening to addiction to parenting to partnership to religion/mysticism/Jesus, war/death, and sports.
Natural Highs is a celebration of the joys available to us all if only we pay attention to the natural world. Poetry chapters include Moon, Flower, Rain, Tree, Mountain, Ocean, Fire, Snow, Night Sky and Seasons. Charlie gives us 104 pages of reasons to wonder and rejoice in the beauty that surrounds us. $15.00 including book rate shipping.
Circle of Grace: In Praise of Months and Seasons invites you into the spirit journey of the months of the year. Through Charlie's eyes, each month reveals its special character and invites your delight and pondering. 99 pages. $15.00 including book rate shipping.
Contemplatively Sweet; Slow Down Poems to Ponder. These poems coax the reader to mull and muse and savor. Contemplation is not only good for the soul but eminently practical, adding quality and caring to our work and relationships. 151 pages. $15.00 including book rate shipping.
The Elixir of Air: Unguessed Gifts of Addiction. Touching us all, addiction can be a hidden blessing for what it forces us to face and change in our lives, for the spirit journey it rudely launches us on. It brings us into the presence of the great mystery of death required for rebirth. 130 pages. $15 including book rate shipping.
Earthtalks: Conjectures on the Spirit Journey. Those understanding life to be a journey of spirit may resonate with these conjectures from a companion on the great journey shared with the congregations of two churches in the Roanoke Valley. 177 pages. $15.00 includes book rate shipping.
If Child, Why Not a Cosmos? is a collection of lovesongs, by many others in addition to the author, to the wonders of Earth and evolution. 233 pages. $15.00 including book rate shipping.
Embraced It will Serve You invites readers to see death as a wise teacher instead of a grim reaper. Nothing bettter can serve to awaken us to life and to call us to our mission. 284 pages. $18 including book rate shipping.
Fuel for War: Patriotic Entrancementhopes to help break a spell, an Earth-imperiling entrancement that weaves together patriotism, nationalism, and war. The flag of the Earth calls for our primary allegiance if peace is to have a chance. $15 incuding book rate shipping.
Aging Liberal Nostalgic for Vision. Communities in which we are embedded cry for conscious participation, sometimes for outrage. These responses to social issues of the late 20th century touch on race, war, politics, and personalities affecting our nation and the world. 259 pages. $15 including book rate shipping.
Stepping Stones to the Civil War: Slavery Intergral to Each. Readers are invited to revisit American history in order to understand how slavery's cancer, infecting America's body politic from the beginning, spread to the point of eruption into the war nearly severing the Union. 375 pages. $15 including book rate shipping.
Contrary to cursory impression, America is far from healed from her civil war. The essays in Empathy if the Key: Towards a Civil War Healingattempt to throw light on why this is so and on haow critical the capacity to be empathic will be if full healing is ever to be reached. 192 pages. $12 including book rate shipping..
Gentle Warrior John Yungblut: Guide on the Mystic's Journey,transcending the dichotomy between matter and spirit, action and contemplation, will speak to those eager to learn of a mystical Christianity at home with advances in science and psychology. 315 pages. $15 including book rate shipping.
Full Heart Singing: Letters and Poems to a Girlchild.Parents of young children may resonate to these glimpses from a fathering heart into the vastness of a father's love for his new daughter. 156 pages. $12 including book rate shipping.
Let another's evolution from Catholicism to Quakerism, with multiple spirit-riches accruing along the way, serve to deepen your appreciation of how far or wide or deep your own evolution has taken you, and of what is at the secret heart of it. 333 pages. $15 includes book rate shipping.
These poems and talks will speak to readers knowing joy from loving dogs and cats and comfort from the gracing of plants, trees and rain. 291 pages. $15 includes book rate shipping.
Please Hear is the amazing story of a poem's impact not only across this country, but around the world since it was written in 1966. It is all about how hearts grow wings! 137 pages. $15 includes book rate shipping.