In one sense, the human experience is a coexistence of what is painful and refreshing, enlightening and evasive, sorrowful and joyful, loving and hateful, deflating and uplifting, harrowing and peaceful, beautiful and vile, and countless other seeming dichotomies.           Could it be more than mere coexistence? Perhaps each part feeds off of its polar opposite. Perhaps each is umbilically connected to the whole. One thing is for sure: Making sense of it can be like finding our way in the densest fog (i.e. pea soup). 

     In his latest volume, Chris Basher (a.k.a. P. D. Kline) moves through the fog looking for flickers of light to show the way. He finds them in relationships both cherished and heartbreaking, in the simplest observations and experiences, and in humor, beauty, and love.

     Ultimately, the search culminates at the top of the mountain to where he climbs out of the fog.