my poetry reveals my story in all of its brutal ebbs and forgiving, healing and redemptive flows.
TRACY J. PELLERIN was born in 1964 and grew up in the rural southern Louisiana hamlet of Rynella in Iberia Parish; a stone’s throw from the home of Tabasco Sauce on Avery Island. Tracy was born in a very large extended family with is father the youngest of 18 to native Cajun French speaking parents who were farmers. His core upbringing was family, farming, church, fishing, hunting, and food. He explains to people who didn’t grow up in the country that “if we didn’t grow it, raise it, kill it, or catch it we didn’t eat it.”
After graduating high school Tracy explored various trades from a short stint in carpentry, working in the airline industry, spending 4 years in the US Air Force and then a long career in the logistics industry. He is a proud father of one daughter and three grand daughters. Tracy is an entrepreneur having started several small companies all the while privately pursuing his passions of drawing, painting, and writing. He explains that growing up in the time and place he did, there wasn’t anyone he felt comfortable sharing his private thoughts with so he sketched and wrote his feelings and emotions.
Today Tracy is still very active in the logistics industry but at 58 he fell in love with yoga and now at 61 he is a yoga teacher, artist, poet, and very passionate cook and traveler. He has taken his struggles in life and turned them into the driving force that inspires him to continue to grow, learn and to mentor. His desire with his collection of poetry and art is to help others see that overcoming challenges is the tool by which we become the fullest version of who we are meant to be. He explains that “by allowing myself to be truly open, honest and vulnerable, to go deep within and explore all of my hurts is the way I’ve been able to heal my deepest wounds and find forgiveness, gratitude for my journey, and true self-acceptance.”