Bookshelf Treasures

Featured book: Still Life by Sarah Winman

Connection, beauty, and integration of a full year

Still Life is a sweeping, tender story about the unexpected ways lives become intertwined through love, loss, friendship, and art. Set against the backdrop of wartime Italy and post-war London, it follows a young soldier whose chance encounter with an art historian in a Tuscan cellar during World War II quietly changes the course of his life.

In the midst of destruction, something enduring is formed — a connection that carries forward through decades, shaping who he becomes and how he understands belonging. Back in London, life continues in a circle of friends and chosen family, full of eccentricity, humor, and everyday beauty, even as memories of Italy remain alive within him.

When the past calls him back to Tuscany years later, he is invited to reconnect with the places, people, and moments that first opened his heart to a different way of seeing the world.

For our circle, Still Life offers a reflection on how love, art, and friendship shape us across time. It is a reminder that even in times of upheaval, beauty persists — and that the connections we form can become the quiet foundation of a life fully lived.

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2026

Time:  6:00PM - 7:30PM (Mountain Time)

Facilitated by Kaye Chatterton, Director of the CAW Wisdom Institute

Capacity: 15

We’ll be exploring a new book each month, with each session dedicated to a different title.

Email us with suggestions, croneawakeningwisdom.@gmail.com

Recommend purchase of used books from Ebay.com/ or your public library.