ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE WEEK:
Stop and smell the new Spring flowers. Remember all those who have loved and encouraged you. Be thankful for them and all the beautiful relationships you enjoy today! Never miss and opportunity to tell those you love that you love them!
Poet and Writer
N.S. Rettmann
Hey everyone! I'm N.S. Rettmann, I'm a poet and writer.
I started writing when I was very young, as an escape from a world that was often not very kind. I sought and found glimpses of simple kindness. I hung onto these glimpses like gold in my pocket and sunshine in my soul. I love a good short story with eccentric characters. Stories that make you think. Stories of developing faith, bad situations turning good, or ones that stream on softly like a rowboat on a quiet pond carrying you along peacefully like a daydream on a sunny day, or ones that shelter you from the steady driving rainstorms of life. Then there are those jots on thoughts of different topics like peace and chaos, pain and forgiveness and how these are sometimes, or often, linked to each other like we all are in one way or another.
About me and my writing
I write from my own experiences, those of others, and from my imagination. I write as the Spirit touches my heart and inspires my soul.
I am a 33 year Army veteran. My husband and I have raised two children, one dog, and a tropical wood turtle. I write from my own experience, those of others, and from my imagination. I write as the Spirit touches my heart and inspires my soul. My love of nature and deep faith seep into my writing as do my experiences with pain, hardship, and overcoming life's challenges including teenage homelessness, hunger, Loss, and military experiences including combat deployments and humanitarian aid. These poems, prayers, and stories are steeped in encouragement and hope, to inspire every reader to keep going, keep reaching.
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Books I've written
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Lines and Rhymes
Books I'm currently Working on
Peace, Love, and Armor - Stories from military experience or perspectives. I've rearranged this collection and am now re-editing this collection of stories. Thanks friends for all the help.
Leaves in the Wind - Nature poems. I'm building on what I've caught from the winds to increase the depth and flow of the collection.
Oh Well, That's Life - Stories centered on the challenges of life. I will continue to work on this after Peace, Love, and Armor is prepared for publication and after "Leaves in the Wind" is compiled and ready for editing.
To Love, a Call to Action - Poems and prayers. Got the shell of this one but still compiling for future editing and publication.
Note: I am still working on Skipping Stones, but have put off that collection work until I can complete the above theme specific works which will feed the Skipping Stones collection.
24 March 2025 - A poem about our need for cleansing and renewal shot in a laundromat during a rainstorm for this time in Lent.
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Contacts
If you want to contact me, the best way is by email. Although it may take me a while to get back to you, I promise I will.