Stafford Betty

Sing Like the Whippoorwill Stafford Betty

This illustrated fable for adults offers challenging insights to the meaning of life and death and the afterlife.  Four bugs, each representing a different spiritual path and each feeling superior, come together because of a common danger.  After a long, perilous journey together, they finally learn to trust each other--but at the cost of their lives.  The story then reunites them as they awaken in a strangely familiar land, where they learn, to their great surprise, the meaning of their lives on earth and embrace the challenges ahead of them in the "Good Land," which are just beginning.  Recognizing the reality and terrible consequences of evil, the story dramatizes the ability of each of us to triumph finally and unconditionally over evil.