David Kherdian, author, publisher, and editor
David was the editor of Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal of our Time. He and his wife, Nonny Hogrogian, founded Two Rivers Press in Aurora, Oregon. David's children's book, The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, was based on his mother's story as her family's sole survivor of the Turkish Genocide of 1915. The book received the Newbery Honor Book Award and was an American book Award nominee.
The author of sixty-six books including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, translations, retellings, anthologies, children's books, David will share poetry from Seeds of Light: Poems from a Gurdjieff Community during his October 13, 2012 presentation at Camp Caravan. Read a selection written during work at Claymont, below.
Work and Work related books include
Monkey: A Journey to the West
On a Spaceship with Beelzebub: By a Grandson of Gurdjieff,
Seeds of Light: Poems from a Gurdjieff Community
The Buddha: The Story of an Awakened Life
BLESSING ON A CHILD'S GRAVE
(Claymont, March, 1985)
There by the small weeping tree
that cries in life continuing
for a life that is gone—
its tear a consecration
as if a tear could spread
its salt and stone into
a tiny plaque of love
Placed level, secured and held fast
in ground surrounded
by tiny flowers whose
heads peep heavenward
While their hearts conceal the knowledge
of the everlasting beatitude
of unfathomable Time
For they are telling us in their quiet way
that the inward counterpoint
of sorrow is bliss
As it emanates endlessly
from the everlasting joy
from which all life
takes its part.