In conversation: Author Dana Knox Wright and Rev. Aurelia Dávila Pratt

205 West 6th Street,Georgetown TX 78626

05 April, 2022

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Author Dana Knox Wright discusses her new book, HOLDING ON LOOSELY: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else Join us for a very special evening as author Dana Knox Wright talks with Rev. Aurelia Dávila Pratt about her new book.In HOLDING ON LOOSELY: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load and Seeing Something Else, Dana Knox Wright’s storytelling weaves its way through her ordinary life—a life hardwired to cling. To her children when they asked for a blessing to go. To someone else’s ideas, when she didn’t trust her own. She held on to prejudice when she would tell you she didn’t. She clung to youthfulness as if what would come next couldn’t be her life’s cherry on top.In a dark season of her life, Dana Knox Wright recognized that her bent to possess, to keep, to hold tightly, and to control was completely contrary to Jesus’ example. This is one woman’s history of holding on and her stories of turning loose—of the gentle and firm, humorous and heartbreaking ways God guided her to let go, to live minimally from the inside out, and to embrace the beauty of enough.NOTE: This event will be held in-store with an option to attend virtually that evening. Dana Knox Wright began letting go of fear at fifty. It’s the decade where, in an odd twist of fate, Sandra Bullock asked for her autograph--the decade she began hiking to places with seriously wild animals, rafting in crazy rivers and eating wild blackberries with only mild concern that rabid foxes eat from the plants, too. After a long career in radio voiceover, she found a passion for spreading goodness and for living to the full. She has offered readers encouragement, hope and sisterhood for almost ten years through her essays published on her website. Dana holds a degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin and is the author of Holding on Loosely: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else (2020) and Saving Stories: Afternoons with Darrell (2017). She is the mother of three adult children and is “Dovie” to four grandchildren. She lives with her husband and an English Mastiff named Pearl in a small river town in the Texas Hill Country. They enjoy spending summers in northern New Mexico. Rev. Aurelia Dávila Pratt is the lead pastor of Peace of Christ Church, a radically loving community in Round Rock, Texas. She is also co-host of the Nuance Tea Podcast, a contributor for ProgressingSpirit.com, and the author of A Brown Girl’s Epiphany: Reclaim Your Intuition and Step into Your Power (available where books are sold this September.) Find her on Instagram @revaureliajoy where she is reimagining faith and theology via spoken and written word.