Books by J. Ruth Gendler

	Notes on the Need for Beauty An Intimate Look at this Essential Quality In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives.

	The Book of Qualities Seventy-six human attributes come alive in brief poetic portraits.			Changing Light Changing Light is a collection of myths, poems and prayers about night and day, that invites readers to become more attentive to the rhythms of light and dark through the day and the year.