Park Bench Blessings

About the Book

The artist gazes into her finished panoramic view of a landscape as she sits and deepens her mesmerized stare, opening the window of her soul. What is she feeling? Contentment, love, suffering, or friendship illuminates the life of a park bench where it bows in humbleness. At a distance, a young woman crosses a wooden bridge and sits on a park bench. The various perspectives of blue-sky tones highlight auburn values to accentuate feelings of love, loss, emptiness, and joy. At the forefront of the landscape, an egret patiently waits for the stream’s current to change direction. A hand rests on a park bench, and the message appears on the journal’s cream sketched paper. Lightly, the Park Bench Blessing’s poetic form reveals life’s meandering journey—capturing love, loss, and courage through heartfelt moments intended to share gratitude and contentment with every breath.

About the Author

Yvette Balboa was born in New York City, NY, and resides in Ridgewood, NJ. Her career involves art, education, neuroscience and spiritual perspectives that bring a new aesthetic style for the literary canvas. Embracing new perspectives brings solace to see a setting sun, calm ocean breeze, or splashing rays through an oak tree. She envisions a palette filled with hues from thoughts that evoke the mind, body, and spirit. Yvette is an inspirational thought artist and poet. Educated and self-taught for over 50 years, she brings a unique, comforting grassroots movement of self-expression, gratitude and contentment with each Park Blessing.

In addition to her beautiful artwork and poems, Yvette holds a Master of Elementary Education from Barry University and a Master of Neuroscience Education from Columbia University in New York City. She presently works as an English as a Second Language teacher in Paterson, New Jersey. Yvette is presently pursuing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership.