Brenda Asterino lives on Lopez Island, Washington, where she volunteers with the local independent radio station, KLOI-LP 102.9 FM, as a producer. She also volunteers with the American Red Cross. Asterino worked as a private and public educator for nearly twenty-five years when life was forever changed by a car accident. Her education includes an AA in Humanities, BS in Biology, and MA in Education, along with many years of training in parapsychology, Energy Work and Body Work. With Pathways being her second poetry publication, Consciousness is an overriding theme that intertwines and entangles all aspects of everything. Genealogy seems to be an area that will support many people's ideas about themselves. In hoping that we all find we have shared so much of all human stories, may we all rejoice in our shared struggles and insights. Asterino supports nonviolent environmental activism, appreciation of diversity of cultures and humanity, and hopes for unity of everyone for the health and well-being of all children everywhere.