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RX: Fun: Surfing Poems for when you need them
Paperback
Publisher: Crown Latitude
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when joy and sorrow meet at the shoreline?
After decades devoted to family, homemaking, education, and teaching, Joan Frantz Vesper approached retirement carrying a life filled with treasured memories, a loving husband, and four daughters. But when the path of one beautiful daughter was rerouted by a serious mental illness, Joan found herself facing a new and painful chapter.
For three years afterward, she supported other families walking a similar road-leading workshops for mothers, fathers, siblings, relatives, and friends searching for a way forward. These classes filled her mind, but not her heart.
To fight sorrow, Joan took up surfing. Over the next ten years, the waves, the beauty of nature, and the welcoming spirit of fellow surfers brought a tsunami of joy.
Through heartfelt poems and artwork, Rx: Fun! celebrates the healing power of the sea: the surfers who inspire us, the creatures that share the ocean, the quiet moments with nature, and the exhilaration of gliding across water.
If there were a message written across the sky behind a small airplane soaring above the coast, it would simply say:
Rx: Fun!
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