Time Traveler

by Jeanie Greensfelder

A celebration of the human curriculum and a poignant invitation to cherish this one “wild and precious day”. Greensfelder’s work has been widely published, including in Writer’s Almanac and American Life in Poetry.

"My life spans the time of radio to TV to internet to AI,
from doctor home-visits to clinics and Urgent Care,
from no seatbelts to tickets for not wearing one"

TIME TRAVELER is a compelling collection of poems by Jeanie Greensfelder, a former psychologist and San Luis Obispo County poet laureate (2017,18), that uses her lifetime as a lens to explore the staggering speed of change. Charting an extraordinary journey from the mid-20th century (from telegrams to cell phones, back-roads to freeways), Greensfelder delves into memory to recount a childhood filled with both wonder and yearning. She revisits the thrill of milestones, from seeing her toes had bones in an X-ray machine at a department store, to the simple hardships like pulling weeds or finding the corner grocer out of bubble gum. These past moments contrast sharply with the current struggles of “alien adults addicted to media”.

The collection is grounded in the natural world, reflecting the dramatic beauty of California’s central coast where the author now lives. Greensfelder invites readers to witness moments of profound connection, whether observing sanderlings soaring with precision or bonding with strangers in the presence of the geological grandeur of Antelope Canyon, Arizona.