Pretend I’m a Pomegranate by Edith Lambert

About the book

My dear reader, you are not prepared for this.

I have published a collection of my writings. Those who know me already have in mind a collection of erudite theological insights.  No.

The title may suggest a journal of introspection à la the self-discovery of Flannery Oconnor or Anais Nin.  Wrong.

I live in a world of desert silence. That silence is so loud, deafening really, as those who have experienced know. Yet, it is here that I found my night voice which speaks in a language I do not use in the daylight for fear of being misunderstood. My night voice expresses not only my dreams, and my secret secrets but also the memories of my experiences.  Using my night voice, I can easily call things as I see them in my universe through the lens of my reality and with my vocabulary. The sum of which can create wily alienating misunderstandings.  Ergo, I assume that my dear readers are not prepared for this. 

I leave it to others to write about ideas that are normative or that contribute to the already always of our intellect. Most readers are prepared for that when they open a book.  This book is not that. My night voice goes public now because my desert landscape is shrinking, I am getting closer to the horizon line, and the night sky is vanishing, while daylight looms large authenticating my night voice and illuminating my landscape so others can hear and see the strange. 

My readers may not be prepared for this publication but once they imbibe the juicy narratives of my wild concoctions, they will have something else to talk about.

About the Author

Edith S. Lambert was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Her wanderlust led to the establishment of residences in New York, New Mexico, Chicago, and California. Her career and vocations include women’s apparel buyer for major department stores in the United States, art dealer, cloistered nun, hospice chaplain, grief counselor, grammar-school teacher, and case manager and companion for young adults with developmental disabilities. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Education from Northeastern University. She also holds a master’s degree in theological studies from Boston College and a graduate certificate with distinction in patient advocacy from UCLA Extension. Edith currently resides in the Bay Area of California and is training to be a Mikveh guide for Jews by choice.

A Review

Hello dear Edith,

I read your book yesterday afternoon and was enchanted, impressed, often puzzled, often intrigued, and reminded to take life more seriously or more lightly, but one thing I wasn’t – inclined to stop reading. I sort of read it in one sitting.  I loved the look of the book – the pomegranate theme and the luscious pomegranate photos interspersed throughout the new books. I like the airiness and uncluttered placement of the type. Also, the typeface. It was its own statement of looseness, flow, and openness. Because that is how the reader should approach this book, I think. Just letting it flow with an openness of mind. And somehow the design suggests that. So, I love the look of the book. Your writing is lovely and your images intense. I found myself pondering what deep themes would emerge from your “dreams” and “loose seeds” if you kept them growing. Although intrigued by them, many puzzled me. Perhaps they puzzle you also and that is the whole raison d'etre. As in the song that I love, you are inviting your reader to “dream with you”.

Connie Durand, artist, Steamboat Springs, CO