This could have been titled, The Book of Bill, or The Book of Linda, or the Book of You. Every individual is worthy of their own book to be written about them. Every individual has a poetry about them. Every person has a story, has someone who has brought them into this world, has experienced different degrees of love, has been fed, clothed, slept and awakened; and every person has given a bit of wisdom to this world.

Some of my favorite books would be about:

My dad who loves the northwoods and the harshness of winter and the stamina of the human spirit

My cousin - artist of clay, lint, glass, etc., who has an uncommon elegance and can transform any material object into that elegance

My friend from work - intelligent and searching, she brings her microscopic inquisitiveness to the issues of every day

The gentle and steady nature of a new friend - although struggling through a difficult time, maintains a hope and a grace.

When I was a kid, whenever we needed to pick someone up at the airport, my cousins and I would dress up and go early, so we could watch people. We would sit quietly and just wonder at them, wonder where they were going, who they were going to see, what they were going to do. The arrivals area was always hopping.

It was in this attentive watchfulness that I learned there is no difference between the young, old, rich, poor, badly dressed and exquisitely dressed. To me, people were always swirling around love, connectedness and beauty.

But there seemed to be a universal need to understand more of who we are and where we come from. We need to know this, because we are wired to know this -- it comes from the primitive nature of who we are spiritual beings born of Love and Truth. Indeed, Love and Truth are our guiding forces, our guiding light, leading us home to where we always thought we should be.

It is a progressively ascending circuitous path. (1)We feel we should be loved, connected and beautiful, so (2)we seek out those things, only to find that (3)they have been a part of us all along, but only in a much higher way.

I'll leave you with three inspiring messages that confirm our beauty and connectedness, and our worthiness for a book to be written about each of us.

"Wings of Desire", a film by German director Wim Wenders whose images of angels with us reminds me that we are never alone.

Mother Theresa, who sees the Christ in every one she helps. "I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" -- 1974 interview

And a confirmation from the Bible that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalms 139:14

From the Book of Kim,

Kim Korinek

Kim was raised with Christian Science and has been an active Christian Scientist almost all of her adult life. What intrigues her most about Christian Science is the way it explains God as a law of universal Love itself.

By applying this law, she has experienced numerous healings of physical, financial and relationship difficulties in her own life and has seen healings in the lives of others relying on Christian Science. In the last twenty years, Kim helped others through prayer on a part time basis, and is now fully devoting herself to this practice.

Prior to her full time work in the Christian Science practice, she worked with the publisher of The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science and author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" - the full statement of Christian Science). She traveled the world, introducing Science and Health to book industries throughout Latin America, Australia and New Zealand and in parts of Europe and Asia. She found that Science and Health was welcomed by booksellers all over the world ? including in predominately Islamic, Hindu, Catholic, Christian and secular countries.

Kim worked with international teams to share the broader application of Christian Science to bring comfort, restore hope and ensure safety to thousands of people via media and special events for such situations as the SARS crisis, the economic collapse in South America, the Madrid bombings and the tsunami tragedy in Asia.

Prior to her work with the publisher, Kim was administrator for a Christian Science nursing facility ? a facility that gives nursing care to those who are under Christian Science treatment. Kim directed the day-to-day operations that contributed to the overall care and well being of many patients along with supervising all aspects of a licensed care facility.

Kim holds a Master's degree in Education Administration and took the course of Christian Science Primary Class Instruction in Christian Science healing in 1978. Every year, she takes a post graduate course in spiritual healing, attending with hundreds of Christian Scientists and practitioners representing up to 30 countries.

Kim, a mother of two boys, stays active in her lifelong love of the arts and outdoors, having met her husband while whitewater kayaking and racing. All four of them have lived in the East Coast and in the Midwest where they enjoy making art, as well as reading, traveling and having outdoor adventures.