Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers

"In This Single Road, poet and painter Alan Chong Lau opens his Kyoto journals to us--inexpensive pocket notebooks filled with quick sketches, poems, and fragments of daily life. Many of these moments return as watercolor postcards sent to friends, so what begins in private observation becomes a quiet act of generosity, a way of keeping connection alive through art. Echoing the haibun tradition of Bashō and Santōka, This Single Road is less a travelogue than a record of engagement--intimate and playful--a lifelong conversation with place, with practice, and with Kazuko, his companion in life and art."--