About Brave as Thistles:
Brave as Thistles, a collection of poems by Lauri Cruver Cherian, was inspired by a trip to the Highlands of Scotland where the author encountered the national emblem, the thistle. Scottish legend tells of a party of Scots warriors who were invaded by Norsemen. The Vikings removed their shoes and crept up to attack the sleeping Clansmen. One of the invaders trod on a spiky thistle and his anguished cry alerted the Scots to the attack. If your life journey has brought you to a place where bravery is required, may you be like the thistle, delicate and beautiful, yet tenacious and strong, able to flourish through any season. Brave as Thistles is emotional, evocative, and thoughtful in the exploration of the essence of what it means to be brave.
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Author Bio:
Lauri Cruver Cherian is a writer and an educator, teaching English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education to children and adults for 30 years. She is a proud native of Washington State but has been transplanted to South Texas for the last 30 years. Lauri has been a master teacher and a leader of workshops in adult ESL education across South Texas. She is the recipient of several teacher of the year awards including Bilingual Teacher of the Year for Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston, Texas. When she isn’t writing stories or poems, she is volunteer teaching adult ESL in her community, participating in community theater, volunteering at the Center for Arts and Sciences and the Planetarium, playing the piano, singing, or traveling. Lauri and her husband have three adventuresome grown children and a chihuahua named Gracie. Lauri has published two books of poetry, Poems of the Point, a tribute to growing up on the beach in her hometown of Gig Harbor, Washington and Brave as Thistles, a collection of poems about becoming brave through life’s mid-life messiness. See Lauri’s website for the release date of her new children’s chapter book, Four Anxious Armadillos!