alk is cut and crying. Your Love pours out. You cannot stop. This is why you are free.

With All These Rivers and You Chose Love, Jaiya John continues his mystic storytelling and passionate pouring of medicine words. This compilation of reflections floods your soul and heart with an intimately personal mercy for your tenderness, painting beauty over the landscape of your inner and outer life.

Sometimes its words feel like those of a doting grandmother, prickly and soft at once, always dripping wisdom. Its language is a delirious treasure map, a sanctuary you revisit time and again. Like licking sugar, these compact pieces infuse you with feel good. They are your morning lemon water. Your evening bubble bath. Your oracle on the summer porch. Massage, prayer, and spiritual practice all at once.

All These Rivers and You Chose Love will have you laughing, crying, and reflecting on your soul and life with a gentler gaze. Wrap this comfort blanket around you. Sip its heart-seasoned broth. All These Rivers will entrance you to remember yourself and send you on a journey of sweeter dreams. Before you turn out the light in bed, you will want this book to kiss you goodnight.