Breathe Love--- Even on a Rainy Day: SUNSHINE & OLIVIER Book

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

SUNSHINE & OLIVIER Book

Sunshine & Olivier by Melony McGant

"THIS BOOK HAS ALL OF THE ELEMENTS OF A PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR!!!" Reviewed by Sage Crystal

"Clever, spiritual, funny, psychological, heartbreaking, and at times, simply mind blowing. Melony’s poignant collection poses a simple, yet obviously not-simple, question: What does it mean to be truly loved… what makes a family?

Melony’s meta-fictional prose oriented around questions of: MotherFatherGod, Forgiveness, Love, Friendship, Kindness, Compassion, Redemption, Heritage, and Blackness, joins a particular cadre of Black female fiction writers who offer creative and intellectual brilliance - and grants us a gift of word painting displays and inspiration.

Beautifully written! This feel-good tale, with its collection of uniquely diverse characters, surreptitiously weave themselves into our consciousness; leaping off the pages to reshape our hearts and minds.

Sunshine is a uniquely beautiful, precocious, hypersensitive child, with a heart of gold. Bubbling with stupendous compassion and kindness… an old soul; starkly reminds me of myself when I was her age.

Moira, the cat, beguiles us with amusing past life journeys. Bestows wisdom upon us and gives us hope for the future.

A passionate peace warrior, Olivier is a highly artistic young man with strong convictions, and a tender heart; yet remains beset with deep inner turmoil and a longing for wholeness.

I was particularly taken by the heavy emotional strains captured in each character, but the prose also cackles with puckering humor and a heart-centered engagement in the idiosyncratic pulses of consciousness and feeling as it relates to the plight of being Black in America.

The experience of reading this piece links up inextricably with our own hearts and minds - offering a course in self-awareness and introspection.

Melony quietly breaks the wall between fiction and realism, as you may easily find within the multifarious cast of characters, that some hidden truth lay bare within your own soul" -- Sage Crystal

Thank You for Your Beautiful Heart and Generous Review Sage Crystal!

Melony 💖

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Rev.Melony McGant aka Miss Mellie Rainbow

Melony McGant, poet, storyteller, humanist and world lover of children lives on HOPE; works to breathe in love, and exhales fear (false expectations appearing real). She says "Perhaps our current challenges are wake-up calls for our collective awakening to truth." And she believes that the truth is, there is no need for our constant bickering, our disdain for eachother, for wars and killing, for world hunger, massive disease, for discrimination, subjugation, or oppression. She maintains that LOVE, even on a rainy day, is the answer to our dreams, our individual quests, and our future collective identity. "If we can learn to value our children, our elders, ourselves, and our Mother EarthHeart, then surely we have the power to impact society and to create a world filled with JOY."

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Rev. Melony McGant Bio

Rev. Melony McGant, aka Miss Mellie Rainbow loves to travel, explore cultures, connect with people, and dreams of a compassionate World with safe, loving communities, equal opportunity with justice and peace for the next seven generations (and beyond) of All the Earth's children.

She truly believes that "peace is possible through compassion, cooperation, courage, creativity, deep listening, faith, forgiveness, good purpose, healing, hope, humility, integrity, joy, kindness, mercy, patience, respect, understanding and the gift of Love!", and uses social media platforms to inspire others.

She is a storyteller, thought-leader, poet, & compassionate communications professional with more than 30 years’ experience in assisting both people and organizations discover and promote their professional or personal life missions. From business and not for profit CEO's to job seekers, elders, parents and children; through deep listening, Melony has quietly impacted, coached or supported thousands of people on their life journeys.

Currently a resident of New York City, Melony has worked as a marketing professional, owned her own full-service marketing firm and was assistant to cultural icon, choreographer and Oprah Legend, Miss Katherine Dunham. She worked for many years as a Labor Services Representative for New York State Department of Labor where she was able to hone her skills as a career/life coach and personal empowerment workshop facilitator; has a BA in Communications from Marshall University, is a Certified Level One Trainer in Kingian Nonviolence (University of Rhode Island Summer Institute), and is a Vietnam era war veteran (United States Navy).

An avid reader, in 2018 she appeared in two episodes of the Great American Read, an eight-episode national television show on PBS that "explored the many ways in which novels affect, reflect and connect us all."

An ordained Interfaith Minister, and author of the coming of age novel "Sunshine & Olivier: A Parable of Love" (IUniverse), which will be reissued for the 20th anniversary of its publication in the fall of 2019, Melony is also the primary author of "The Healing Adagio: A Love Symphony In Five Parts" and the journal, empowerment workbook "Seeker Dreamer: Amazing, Brilliant, Compassionate YOU!" (both published by Authorhouse). Her books are available on Amazon.

Rev. Melony McGant's writing is also featured in several other books, magazines and newspapers including the first edition of The Poetry Cafe (Art for Awareness), W & Art (an international women's premium art talk magazine), African Voices Magazine, MBE/WBE Magazine, Our Time Press, and the Chicago Citizen. Early in her career she was a columnist for The New Pittsburgh Courier.

Her writing also appears in GLORY: A Life Among Legends by Dr. Glory Van Scott (Water Street Press), "Passing It On: Moving Stories of Activists 1960 to 2000" by Bev Jenai-Myers (Archway Publishing), "Go Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to Michelle Obama" (SUNY Press), "The Book of Hope" and "The World Book of Healing" (both by Beyond Borders Press).

While living in Pittsburgh, PA, Melony served on the boards of Big Brothers and Sisters and the Pittsburgh Branch NAACP. An avid supporter of the Andrew Goodman Foundation VOTE EVERYWHERE program, she strongly believes in embracing the values of good citizenship.

She has received the New Mexico Not Even One Service Award, the 911 Red Cross Volunteer Award in NYC, the Pittsburgh City Council Women's Recognition Award, and the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund Award for Service (MBELDEF).

To contact Rev. Melony McGant, email: melonymcgant@yahoo.com

Breathe Love--- Even on a Rainy Day

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

SUNSHINE & OLIVIER Book

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