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My Own Backyard - Danny Nicholson

My Own Backyard

By: Danny Nicholson, Susanne Cate (Illustrator)

Paperback | 1 February 2019

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Explore “My Own Backyard” … then discover yours.

In this autobiographical collection, Danny Nicholson explores the landscape of his own backyard through stories about his father, poems about his children, and songs about family, faith and friends.

In essence, his book reveals that his story is not his own. It transcends the boundaries of geographical locations, suggesting that life is not so much about where we are but who we are.

“Geographical boundaries separate backyards, but the memories we make in them create a sameness and familiarity that renders the distance between them non-existent,” writes the author. “Backyards are set apart by their location, but they are made of the same stuff — or, even better, we are made of the same stuff.”

Nicholson’s stories, poems, and songs of laughter and tears, darkness and light, faith and love, “inextricably link us to each other as human beings, and give us a divine reason to hope for a better tomorrow.”

“We are one story or song away from finding all things in common with every human being,” he says.

An adopted son as well as a husband, father, singer-songwriter, fundraising leader, and speaker, Nicholson is president of Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, S.C. He is married to his college sweetheart, Debra, and they have two grown sons who are accomplished musicians.

Industry Reviews

I have traveled all over the world, and have met hundreds of thousands of people. Danny Nicholson stands alone among those people. I have stood in his backyard (literally where he lives today) and I have stood with him on many occasions in his allegorical backyard as he describes in this book. Danny is one of the most authentic, deeply caring human beings I have ever met! He is a genuine “pilgrim” whose heart and journey have always been 
in the right direction. This book takes you inside that “journey” and gives you a glimpse of what it means to say “yes” to life and to discover what really matters, and in the end, what’s most important! Some people say you should plant a garden in your backyard, Danny says there’s already one there, go ?nd it! —GENE COTTON, Singer/Songwriter, Nashville, Tennessee

The volume you hold in your hand is a treasure because the man who wrote it is a treasure. Anyone who has the great fortune to know Danny Nicholson will agree. The acknowledgements in this volume are long — longer than normal. That's because Danny has a heart full of love and appreciation. Not only for his backyard and his stories and his songs but people. Especially people. Enjoy this treasure from the heart of Danny. — RUTH GRAHAM, Ruth Graham Ministries

Danny is a singer, a poet, a storyteller. To read Danny is to feel that beautiful heart beating, for home, to be rocked in the cradle of your own childhood memories. He is our brother, our fellow pilgrim on the way. Looking for a way home to your  memories? Why not take a stroll through "My Own Backyard" with Danny and remember what life and love are all about! — J. RANDALL O'BRIEN, President, Carson-Newman University

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