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other words that they want. A va
riety of color choices—for both the
fabric and the letters — are avail
able, allowing customers to riot
only choose what they will say, but
in what shades they will say it in.
Embroidered women’s wear
can also be found at www.priori
tiesnyc.com. The Priorities brand
is sold at high-end department
stores but can also be ordered di
rectly from the Web site. The
clothing company sells hoodies
and tees, as well as more unique
items such as initialed satin
• bomber jackets and cashmere
sweaters.
At www.customglamgirl.com,
shoppers can get an assortment of
apparel and accessories printed
with their names and favorite
phrases. From trucker hats and
leather bracelets to tank tops with
rhinestones, the Web site offers
affordable, personalized gear that
can complement any wardrobe.
Of course, every year, the in
evitable last-minute shoppers will
be scrambling for an appropriate
gift just days before Christmas.
But even those looking for a per
sonalized gift have some last
minute Internet shopping options.
Many Web sites offer expedited
and even overnight delivery. Be
aware, however, that faster ship
ping will mean higher shipping
rates. Also, those shoppers that
need hard-to-find letters such as
W’s and X’s will need to make sure
that such items are available
ahead of time. For all of the Zeldas
and Xaviers out there, special or
ders are a must.
If all else fails, area mall stores
will undoubtedly have their own
well-stocked selections of initialed
accessories and clothing. Check
familiar store Web sites such as
The Gap (www.gap.com) and
Lands’ End (www.landsend.com)
for monogrammed options as well.
Gift-givers — guys, pay attention
— who really want to make an im
pression can opt for an Elsa
Peretti initial pendant from
Tiffany’s (www.tiffanys.com).
That signature blue box has the
power to win over recipients, con
tents unseen.
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“really makes you realize how
many genres he touched.”
The Rev. Billy Graham was
among several people to send
recorded messages of love, saying
he expects to join Cash and June
Carter Cash in heaven soon.
“He was an oak tree in a garden
of weeds,” said Bono, lead singer
for the rock group U2, who toast
ed Cash with a pint of Guinness
beer in a recorded message. “He’s
not in a garden of weeds now. He’s
in heaven with June where all the
saints are.”
Ronnie Dunn of the country
duo Brooks & Dunn told the audi
ence he was wearing a black coat
Cash had given him when he was
a struggling young artist.
“I feel the ghost of Johnny Cash
so strong tonight,” he told the au
dience. “Do you feel it?”
The show ended with the entire
Cash family on stage singing with
the audience “We’ll Meet Again”
from Cash’s final album, “American
IV: The Man Conies Around.”
With his raw, bare-bones
sound, Cash helped pioneer rock
‘n’ roll in the 1950s, blending Delta
blues with Appalachian folk.
Steve Earle, who performed
“Folsom Prison Blues,” said Cash
came to Nashville as an outsider
who broke conventions by writ
ing his own songs and speaking
his mind.
“He did things exactly the way
he wanted to do them and stuck to
his guns, and proved that that can
be done and be done successfully,”
Earle said.
As Robbins put it, Cash
“knocked the world of pop music
on its ear, then went on to do it in
Nashville and the world.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS
Sheryl Crow, above, sang a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ song
“Hurt,” popularized by the late Johnny Cash.
BY ERIN VAN BRONKHORST
TIIKASSOCIATKDI’HKSS
SEATTLE — Novelist David
Guterson wrestles with spiritual
questions while he’s buying light
bulbs at the hardware store.
“How can there be evil and
God? How can there be suffering
and God? How can there be gas
chambers and killing fields? Who
is God? Where is God? What is
God? Is there a God? And how can
we not ask that question all the
time?” he asks.
Those questions spurred him
to write about a young girl’s vi
sions of the Virgin Mary in “Our
Lady of the Forest,” his third nov
el. The 16-year-old runaway’s
enigmatic visions bring a kind of
salvation to a rain-drenched lum
ber town in Western Washington.
Guterson’s latest book follows
the haunting murder mystery
and multilayered courtroom dra
ma of “Snow Falling on Cedars”
and the philosophical journey of
a dying man in “East of the
Mountains,” his second novel.
“I think I’m in the situation
where early in my career I had a
phenomenally successful book
and everything will be seen in
that context,” he says. ‘“Snow
Falling on Cedars’ will always be
a sort of foundation or bench-,
mark, the context in which my
work is considered. For better or
worse, that’s the way it is.”
Published in 1994, “Snow” told
the story of a Japanese-American
fisherman who stands trial for his
life on a mythical Puget Sound is
land haunted by memories of
World War II internment camps.
The 1995 paperback edition stayed
on best seller lists for 77 weeks; the
book was also made into a movie,
starring Ethan Hawke. Some 3.75
million copies are in print.
Guterson’s second novel, “East
of the Mountains,” followed with a
philosophical tale about a doctor
with terminal cancer who heads
out for one last journey. The 1999
book also became a best seller.
He’s “excited but also appre
hensive” about launching “Our
Lady of the Forest.”
“You’ve totally invested your
self in the work and it’s all out on
the line,” he says.
Reviews of “Our Lady” have
been largely favorable.
Publishers Weekly praised
“evocative prose, pithy dialogue
and piercing insights.” Book
magazine called it “both riveting
and remarkable.” But Newsday
criticized an “inconsistency of
tone (that) makes the book fall in
the cracks between satire and
more respectful treatment.”
Guterson, a 47-year-old agnos
tic, was interested in apparitions
of the Virgin Mary as the subject
for his book because of human
longing for a feminine side to the
divine.
“Our Lady” crackles with con
flict as Ann Holmes tells others
about her visions that no one else
can see: A solitary Catholic priest
and a cynical young woman with
an eye for profits shepherd Ann
through crowds of worshippers
who trample the rainforest; an an
gry ex-logger named Tom Cross
wreaks havoc but hopes for a mir
acle to save his paralyzed son.
“My spiritual and religious
journey is a permanent one,” he
says. “It’s been with me from the
beginning of my consciousness
as a human being and it contin
ues to this day with great fervor
and desperation.
“I just never seem to come up
with any answers, that’s the prob
lem. I want some kind of solace
or comfort in the face of mortality
like we all do. It’s very hard to
face the human condition.”
He hopes the book will not be
judged offensive to those of reli
gious faith.
‘1 think what I’ve done is write a
book that really honors belief, faith,
seeking and searching,” he says. “I
- wanted to write a book that treat
ed those things in an honest way
and leaves people with a deeper
sense of spirituality and asking
themselves spiritual questions as
a result of having read the book.”
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