In Light Love and Life.

About me and In lIght Love and Life, my poetry collection.

In the 50's I was lucky and gratefull to have survived Poliomyelitis when living with my grandparents. 

At its peak Poliomyelitis, paralyzed or killed over half a million people worldwide every year.^[2]

However, my legs were not developing correctly so I learned to walk with the use of body and leg braces, and because I had access to the attic of my grandparents store, where books were kept, my favorite place became the floor under a window where I sat and read for hours.

Then, just before my teens I was sent to California to live with my mom and a step dad I hardly knew. In time while in High School I worked in a small shop in downtown LA. From there,  I became a model and then a dancer. 

Was in my twenties when Vic and I fell in love and married. After three wonderful children I was working in State Service, and Vic in construction, when Vic,  passed away after a triple-by-pass.

In time love returned and John,  Rail Road Engineer,  and I married. Now, after 30 years in public service, last ten as a Research Analyst, I retired and later so did John.

After settling down, and then doing this and that, with John's editing help, I finished my 85 poetry-collection - more can be found on my  my website: http://www.martacweeks.com/p/on-wings-of-immortals-series_2.html 

Your comments and suggestions are very welcomed!

About Marta C. Adint Weeks, the author.

In childhood, bedridden by polio, I was left with my hard working, and loving grandparents and was  joyful when, with the use braces, I could wobble down the stairs to their general store and or up a narrow stairway to the attic where books were kept; there, sitting by a window, I read and watched horses drink water from a large pila.

Other than nasty relatives I had Dorita, a kind aunt. I loved staying in her hacienda. In my early teens, I able to walk with braces I was sent from boarding school to California, to live with my mom and step dad. 

As soon as I was of age I got a work permit and a job. Soon I saved and bought a Rambler. Then working in the garment industry I took modeling lessons. Was  a model and a dancer, with a very well know Hollywood agent, until  I met and married Vic; a wonderful and creative person. 

When raising our three children I attended college and had a Community Information TV show until Vic, a beloved father and husband passed way. 

I continued college and work and in time and love, John - a Railroad Imaginer- and I married. In my last ten years of State and Community Service, I was Program Manager, Research Analyst, and Public Relations Specialist. Now both retired, John and I live in a hillside community where in addition to public service John edits my writing.

Now I am ready to publish  On Wings of Immortals - a trilogy based on ancient myths and spirits from the beginning of humanity to times that some scientists speak of humans as having an elemental spirit called "natural tectonics." And is believed, in the ancient "Paracelsian concept," that there are "beings" who live longer than humans, and by marrying a mortal, their offspring can gain a soul.

For more information go to: http://www.martacweeks.com/p/on-wings-of-immortals-series_2.html  and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental.

Comments and suggestions are very welcomed: mdcmdaw@gmail.com