In the passionate poems of another beginning, caitlin blackburn plumbs the depths of despair and describes a courageous battle to find safe ground and push off from it to experience joy in all its forms, including contentment in "the witnessing / of the sun on the water / or feeling the salty breeze on my face, . . . / the sitting, / the seeing / and the stillness - the 'just being.' " This is a book that will inspire anyone battling against seemingly insurmountable odds.