"Daddy" An Invitation to Love (A Legacy of Love) is a true story. It takes you on a journey, "a fish out of water" story so magical and enchanting, filled with all that life has to offer that you will laugh, you will cry, you will rejoice and learn the Miracle of Love all over again. A journey that takes you from birth, life death, and beyond interwoven with Miracles & of course Love. This is the first book for this divinely inspired artist. As she says, "Awakened in the middle of the night, a voice said just write the book...and so the next morning this treatise on love was begun." What would you do if you were presented with a life altering decision, a decision that affected your husband, your mother who has dementia and your father, a man of grace in his 80's, your home, everything you hold sacred. You are forced to leave your dream house, your dream town on the Gold Coast of Southern California. Actually, there was no decision, just the universe waving it's wand of destiny and saying, "You're going to leave all that you love now, take your family somewhere else and start over again." Where would you go? Somehow messages come to you from years ago, "There is a tiny town called, 'Harmony, ' on the Central Coast, it has 18 people..." You check it out to find there's one place for lease in this tiny, magical town, it's a funky old ranch house on a Red Rock Road in need of repair, surrounded by 500 acres of tumbleweeds, bob wired fences, cattle, horses, one goat, four barn cats, and wildlife galore. Oddly, they hold it for you for 2 weeks until you can get there to see it. Somehow, the pristine beauty of Washington, D.C., the White House, the Capitol, Old Town, the gentle beauty of the Gold Coast of California and your special cove fade away to this rustic hideaway you will soon call home. Your gallery, where will that be, as it happens in the old creamery in a loft with a tin roof above the old post office. And what if the universe waves its wand again after three years and you are uprooted again, where do you go? Back to the Gold Coast of California where things have changed. There were seven of you when you went to the Ranch, you left with six, and six weeks later, once back, there were five, and five years later, there were only two again. How do you cope, how do you rebuild yet again. Oh, and what ensues can only be trials, tribulations, jubilation, hard work, love and joy, Magical, mystical, enchanting all at the same time.... you experience death, birth, miracles, exceptional beauty and all that lies in between.... A beautiful story of a daughter's love for her father, written 1 year after his death in 2007. "Daddy An Invitation to Love..." will warm your heart, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be inspired. Deborah honors the love she and her father shared. Truly, a timeless treasure for all who have loved deeply. Embrace this book fully for it will take you through a legacy of birth, life, death, miracles & beyond, always with Love. From the book: "Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of Love, and for the second time in the of the world, man will have discovered fire." - Pierre Teilhard De Chardin "Daddy," is a loving tribute to an incredible man. Immense Love is woven into every page. I was impressed with Deborah's honesty as she exposed her heart & her soul. As you journey through her joy, her trials and her losses you will sense Deborah's connection to God and the Angels. This is a book for all seasons of life. I highly recommend it." "Deborah's personal journey of strength and never forgetting that without Love, There are no Miracles touched me deeply. She has a deep Faith in Miracles...to keep the Faith in times of stress." "A moving, powerful inspiration, a testimony of heartfelt feelings to be shared with all who read this wonderful tribute to the author's father, mother and soulmate. "Not to be missed, a Treatise on the Power of Love..