<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">~~~~ED~~~ </span></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">~~~~~This is a Beautiful collection of Poetry put together in an amazing presentation~!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 17px;" class="">Loved reading your poems~!! POETIC VOICES OF SACRAMENTO </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 15.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-style: italic" class="">“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted
with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person,
perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking,
clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of
human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs,<br class="">
who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time<br class="">
—proof that humans can work magic.”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 17.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-style: italic" class="">~ </span><span style="font-size: 15.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-style: italic" class="">Carl Sagan </span></p>
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 13.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-weight: 600" class="">ED BALLDINGER
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'" class="">Ed Balldinger is a born, raised,and aging Sacra-
mento native. He left Sacramento for 9 months
once as an 18-year-old rookie of the road and
inexplicably landed in York, Nebraskawhere he
ran into his soul mate before returningtogether
to Sacramento in 1983. They grew 2 sons into
respectable men and many dreams into color-
fulexperiences as co-creative partners. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro;" class="">Ed has co-written/produced, played various
instruments, and sung on 11 musical albums
with 2 groups, the WNGC and the Mood
Groove, in the past 26 years. Ed published a
book of poetry in 2009 called, “</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro; font-style: italic;" class="">from Cavity’s
Kitchen to the Bone Comber’s home.” </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro;" class="">He has
had poems published in Cold River Press col-
lections, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro; font-style: italic;" class="">Quiet rooms 2020 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro;" class="">and V</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro; font-style: italic;" class="">oices 2022
– fantasies, demons & Lovers</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro;" class="">, and the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro; font-style: italic;" class="">2023
Summer edition of the tule review</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: MinionPro;" class="">. Ed is cur-
rently working on a collection of new poetry
which will be published and available in both
written and spoken form upon completion in
2024. He can be contacted by email at ballding-
<a href="mailto:er@gmail.com" class="">er@gmail.com</a>.</span></p>
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