Rose Marie Prins, Ph.D. Author of "A Leaf in the Wind"

A Leaf in the Wind combines the creative output of a mother and son. Rose Marie Prins started work on the images for A Leaf in the Wind during a residency at an artists’ retreat in India shortly after her son, Jaro Majer, passed away. These paintings, images of Indian leaves in Sumi ink on a watercolor ground, are filled with color in an attempt to dispel her grief. Jaro Majer wrote the majority of the poems in A Leaf in the Wind during the period in the late ’90s when he stayed at a spiritual retreat in the Catskill Mountains of New York. These poems express the heartfelt yearning of a young man’s search for the Truth.

Our book includes twenty-two full color illustrations in watercolor and Sumi ink. The twenty-one poems are devotional, yearning and often ecstatic. They address agape, yogic philosophy, love of both nature and the divine in its many manifestations in accessible language that people of many walks of life and differing spiritual paths can relate to. (Published by Rose Marie Prins 2020)