Dana Rondel

Aurator (Orator), Author, Artist, Spiritual Advisor, Community Leader

Dana Rondel is an extraordinary and magical writer, speaker, artist, spiritual advisor and community leader. She is the author of children’s books, novels, short stories, anthologies, essays, poetry and The Sunshine Letter. Dana is also the Founder and President of Wisdom In New Dimensions, Inc. (WIND) Foundation and Spiritual Center and Metaphors 4 Life, an organization focused on building and empowering lives and communities through the oral, written, visual and expressive languages. During her creative career and since establishing her organizations, she has had the opportunity to write, design and publish phenomenal works of literature and art. For more information regarding her books, music, creative print designs, writing and publishing services and annual events, visit: www.metaphors4life.org

Dana has recognized through her experience as a writer and artist that lives can be miraculously transformed through music, literature and art, simply because individuals witness spiritual and human qualities of themselves within brilliant expressions and affirmative reflections. In many of her encounters and conversations with adults and children she garnered a deeper understanding of the transformative powers of The Word, therefore, she not only uses letters and symbols to communicate the thoughts, emotions and feelings of humanity, she also uses visual forms and images.

Her collection of photography, The Word: In Visual Form, is simply a storybook of metaphoric reflections that have been given new dimensions. In other words, photography has given Dana an opportunity to breathe life into—The Word.

Music…

My literature and art become music for me… I’ve learned to capture rhythm with words and with my camera’s eye; therefore, I am deeply inspired by the lyrical images of life. The songs and poetry of life make me dance often, so my love for music has grown, as well as my understanding of its magic and power. Jazz, specifically, symbolizes the extraordinary depth and diversity/multiversity/connectivity of sound, especially those tones born from instruments such as the African drum, piano and wind and string instruments.

Music, sound in motion, has the potential to move us with it, toward the positive change we all strive for in this world...

 

All CDs, DVDs and books published by Metaphors 4 Life, including: A Flower: It Has Its Own Song, which was nominated for two categories by the Annual African American Literary Awards in 2007, are available at: www.metaphors4life.org, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders and Target as well as most other on-line book stores. To order products and services at discounted rates, and to find out about our annual events and purchase tickets, please visit Metaphors 4 Life's on-line store.

Metaphors 4 Life accepts monetary gifts for the purchase of books to donate to youth and adult groups, schools, libraries, spiritual organizations and community centers and programs. Please consider making a donation here or visit our on-line store.

 

To view biography, artist statement, press release, visual art gallery or to visit Metaphors 4 Life's on-line store, discover more about Wisdom In New Dimensions, Inc. (WIND) or to contact me, click on the links below. Adobe Reader must be installed on your computer to view biography, artist statement and press release. To download, please visit: www.adobe.com.

 

Biography      Artist Statement      Press Release      Book Store      Visual Art Gallery      Contact Me

 

Community Initiatives

 

Lotus Partner Program      Reach A Child...      Seeds of Lotus Rising      Unif(Eyed) Colors Campaign

 

Foundation and Spiritual Center

 

Wisdom In New Dimensions, Inc. (WIND)

 

God manifests miracles through man, so let us all recognize our power to transform lives.

- Dana Rondel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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