Mixed Blessings: A Compendium of Thoughts on Life, is a collection of 43 poems by Ru Otto that will take you on an unflinching, contemplative, sensual, and sometimes erotic, tour of her life as a disabled lesbian, mother, grandmother, lover, activist and animal communicator.She has included some old favorites previously published in her 2 chapbooks, Lovings and Troubled Dreams, as well as several new poems never before published. It's a journey you won't soon forget