A strong woman embraces life on her own terms, bringing blessings and tears. Berthella Stevens is a Renaissance woman full of hope and ahead of her time in 1960s Indiana. While some women of her era feel stifled, she is unafraid to express herself, reveling in beauty, writing, and natural living. She relishes the freedom while enduring the loneliness it brings to her rural home. But when she's banished from the family farm, her world is changed forever. Berthella died without achieving her lifetime dream of publishing a book. Kerry L Stevens fulfills the dream of his maverick mother by telling her remarkable and poignant story, sprinkled with her poetry and prose.