Three blooming short stories sauted and seasoned from the quintessential city of New Orleans. Each fictional story covers a period in the real life of an African American females quest for making joy, an expression of self-love. Throughout the book, the author uses innuendos from ancestors, songs, speeches, biblical passages, and the profound laws of nature.
Unsung Love Songs follows a poetic journey through romantic love, familial love, universal love, as well as acceptance and love of the self. The main emphasis of this collection is romantic love. The first flush of romance always involves fireworks, flowers and much swooning. This initial burst of passion is just the beginning. What happens when couples have families and they collect anniversaries too numerous to count? If you are fortunate enough to find true love and keep it, then it is the moments of constancy, humor and co-existing that make up an enduring partnership. This collection of poems celebrates the quiet, every day moments of love and how the recognition of this deep, abiding calmness can be the heart's biggest flourish of all. (Painting on cover by artist, Dint Sweitzer, "The Dancers.") Cristina M. R. Norcross is the author of Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (2007), The Red Drum (2008) and Unsung Love Songs (2010). The author's website is: www.FirkinFiction.com.
First there was "slow food." Now there's "slow flowers," local and fresh: no chemical-laden, lifeless blooms flown in from afar. Acclaimed garden writer Debra Prinzing wants to show us the rich, floral bounty closer to home. In Slow Flowers, she takes us through the seasons to create 52 vibrant, sensual bouquets using only locally sourced materials - even in winter.--
After a brief intense romance, Archie ghosts Anne—forty-three years later, Archie returns to tell Anne, that she is the love of his life. He’s dead. And then, he simply moves into Anne’s life, a world in which she is already struggling, feeling despair. Archie explains that he and Anne are twin flames, two halves of the same soul, and that with his death, their soul contract that spanned hundreds of lifetimes is complete, with one exception. They had promised to write their love story. What love story?! They had dated a mere three months. This is the story of Anne and Archie as they come together, recall their deep love for each other, and forge a ground-breaking relationship that bridges the veil and is in two worlds, one that allows them to recall, reflect, and write their love story, the one in the past, and the one that continues. Sounds easy? Well, no, there’s no map yet. Scattered throughout this narrative are letters, dreams, excerpts from Anne’s Irish journal, and snippets of conversation from the couple’s personal journals. They serve two purposes: to ground this love and relationship in Anne’s life, her world, her journey through grief to self-love; and to offer a first-hand glimpse of the love, the humour, the magic, as Anne and Archie venture forth into unchartered territory and discover for themselves how truly profound their connection is, in both worlds. For those who have loved and lost, A Love to Behold opens the door to unexplored possibilities of love and connection that transcend the bounds of space and time. That transcend death. That it is possible to keep loving at all levels, and have that love transformed and transformative.
The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way self-regard and self-interest can corrupt love, and with spiritual love and its difficulties. It seeks the views of some writers who have suggested some distinctive solutions to the existential problems that love poses in the face of its obstacles: Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Erich Fromm, C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Kahlil Gibran.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon • Slate • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Charlotte Observer • The Globe and Mail • Vancouver Sun • Montreal Gazette • Kirkus Reviews In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?
The Flowers Before They Bloom is beautifully written to bring peace and encouragement to your heart by sharing the sublime reality of God's glorious, unfailing love for you. This lovely collection of poetry and prose guides you through the transitional journey of transformation and blooming into the person that you have been created to be. Whilst you read the contents of this book, may you blossom within strength, healing and beauty. Let your heart deeply absorb the true love that is gracefully lavished upon you from heaven, as you grow in intimacy with God and receive fresh, wonderful revelation of His loving heart towards you.
