Can tragedy offer unexpected gifts? Yes, is the inspiring answer in Edie Hartshorne’s beautiful NECTAR OF MEMORIES, which chronicles in poems and paintings her painful and illuminating twenty-year odyssey through grief after the senseless death of her 20-year old son. Through her courageous self-reflection, therapist Edie Hartshorne uncovers the depth of human resilience, teaching all of us that within the darkness of death and sorrow live shining jewels of wisdom and healing.