Richard’s Notes

Carrie Coco is one of my wife Anne’s oldest friends in Connecticut; they go way back. I’m a relative newcomer as I’ve only known Carrie for about seventeen years. In that time I’ve learned of our mutual interest in photography, images in general, politics and world events, and both of us enjoyed the book, The Tipping Point and the ideas it contained. We have lively conversations.

So, it goes without saying that Anne and I are giddy with delight that Carrie has published a book, Prayers of Peace, and not just a book, a book that we think is special and important enough so that we bought forty copies of it to give to people we care about during the coming holiday season.

The book is simple and profound: an image and a prayer juxtaposed. Given the state of the world this seems like just the ticket.

This past Sunday we went to a publication party for Carrie. She signed and gave copies of the book to all who came.

Word spread that a local bookstore had already sold out of copies of the book and this brought smiles to everyone’s faces.

It is our hope that word of this book will spread virally and more importantly, that its message will spread as well.

Peace.