After helping her young husband fight a fierce battle with cancer, Rachel O'Neal lost him. As she plummeted into the devastating separation from him after his death, she began to experience and seek ongoing connection to ease her pain. When the Thrush Calls reveals comforting -- and sometimes startling -- connections that suggest there are indeed "...more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 Scene V)When the Thrush Calls provides guidance on facing death and grief, offering ideas and hope; and also challenges assumptions about death's meaning, holding out the possibility that death truly does not end our relatedness. (From the back cover)