Good poetry should cause us to age joyfully! In Lifetimes & Life's Lines, you will find refuge from these challenging times. There's a celebratory sense of home and nature in this chronicle of life's journey. Pause a while here, if you will, for some much needed brain candy. I am confident you will relate to many of the events, places, and unique characters revealed within its pages. Inside, is a kaleidoscope of wordy pictorials: wild mustangs, raw human nature, families, loves, childhood adventures, and a throng of descriptive elements that, collectively, encapsulate what the term "Living life to the fullest" truly means. Kevin Heaton is a contemporary poet with a country spin. His poems are a collage of rusty tractor parts, wheat fields, Magnolia breezes, beer cans, and hymns—all forged together and crafted into poetry that quietly touches each reader. -Karen Kelsay, Editor of Victorian Violet Press "Heaton writes in a way that reveals captivating pictures. His tongue-in-cheek use of meter and metaphor compels us to come along, and partake in the celebratory sense of having arrived home one hopes they will inherit at the end of this earthy, glorious adventure we call "Life's Journey."