August 4, 2023 – PathBinder Publishing LLC is proud to announce that it has signed Kelly Holden to publish a book of memoirs centering on her losing her first husband to cancer at an early age. Kelly, who lives in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, discusses all the various emotions she endured during her husband’s illness, remission, and eventual passing and hopes to give others going through the same, or similar, situation some things she learned about dealing with long hospital stays, grief, and hope.
Her book is tentatively titled A Kintsugi Life: Finding Strength and Hope in the Face of Loss. Kintsugi is a centuries old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and transforming it into a network of art with gold. “Kin” means “gold” and “tsugi” means “joinery.” Kintsugi pertains to the Zen ideal of wabi sabi, the concept of embracing imperfection. It also relates to finding value and beauty in those imperfections and blemishes.
A graduate of Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, Kelly is now remarried.