The poems in this micro chapbook portray the author's grandmother, Belle Gilmour Jeffers in her journey of falling in love with Native American art and culture when she met and befriended a young Hopi Chief at the Grand Canyon., The Indigenous artistic manifestations of Native spirituality became an infectious passion throughout her life in the mountains of Montana. Belle started the Valley Trading Post to share the beauty with others, and she passed on all she knew to her children and grandchildren, who now love it, too.

A sixth generation Montanan, Ginger Harstad Glawe was born in Butte, raised in Bozeman and the Madison Valley. She grew up loving the land and its geology, its provision for creatures and people. Summers she worked on her grandmother's ranch and in the Valley Trading Post. She earned a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Kansas, an M.Ed. in Counseling from Montana State University, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Washington State University. Her post-doctoral studies in psychoanalysis complemented her life-long love of poetry. Her son David Livesay lives in Seattle where she lived and practiced for many years. When she retired, she was free to focus on writing poetry, and to return to Montana where she lives with her husband Dean on the land of the Blackfeet, Annishinabe, Metis, and Gros Ventre.