A Day in Eternity ~ Paperback ~ Kathryn Gabriel Loving

British pilot Anson Roe will ignore borders and strain relationships to achieve a career in Ag-aviation. But when he dreams of crashing his airplane in a remote corner of the world, all he can think of is the whereabouts of his girlfriend, Vivianne. He awakens at a small airstrip in "no man's land" Oklahoma, a year backward in time, suffering from apparent heatstroke and random amnesia. Brought to his knees, he is rescued by World War II Spitfire pilot and poet, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the famous sonnet, "High Flight." Pilot Officer Magee treats Anson to the force of his intellect and to harrowing tales of his barnstorming feats. In a story that interweaves true events, the two pilots explore their parallel lives and loves. The novel's title, A Day in Eternity, comes from a sonnet John Magee wrote in 1939 called, "Brave New World." Our lives were strange and noble; we believed In the feel of the earth beneath us, trusted the sun As it played on the leaves and flowers; and we conceived Truth and true Beauty, End of things begun ... We, too, have laughed and sung our hundred songs The sons we bore were perfect in our eyes We hoped for them, but did not realize ... We saw them slain, -with faith we bore our wrongs Watched we the clouds, and did not understand We longed for happiness; we knew despair, Lay, with our dreams, in the gutters; and were deceived By eyes of women; whispered hand in hand, And loved the moonlight on a lover's hair ... We were but a day in Eternity ... still, we believed ... We who are wise beyond your dreams of wisdom Watched our "immortal" moments fade like grass- Our visions deadened with the weight of years We have gone forth beyond your bounds and borders Our dwelling now is in Eternity Where Time is shrivelled down to nothingness We learnt our lesson in the day we died- Life's not a game of money, banks, and houses, No mere pretence that plays at love and mating Of cheeks grown sunken and glad hair gone grey- There is a subtler meaning in Existence Who can but look on the stars and not believe?Author BiographyA native of New Mexico, Kathryn Gabriel Loving has published seven books. These include (under Kathryn Gabriel): Roads to Center Place: A Cultural Atlas to Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi; Marietta Wetherill: Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon; and Gambler Way: Indian Gaming in Mythology, History, and Archaeology in North America, among others. Her first novel, The Logos of Soul, a Novel on the Light and Sound, was a finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Awards, religious fiction category.