This true story is ongoing from nine years in print and follows the life of a restless female who finally found inner peace in her forever home, shared with her husband and four cats in semi-rural countryside. It’s a simple life lived without the nearness of friends or family but yet entrenched with a deep-rooted sense of belonging, gratitude and privilege. Much like music & dance, this life does become out of tune sometimes with the wrong steps taken at the wrong time. At other times there’s complete harmony from being on the right track, with the right beat and taking the right steps. There are different ways of listening, recognising, reacting and responding to whatever situation comes to be and whether literally or metaphorically, alone or shared, the power of music & dance can while away the toughest of times, bringing us back to this space we occupy here in this solar system where planets and stars are moving too - in another shared space. So, here’s to all the moving and shaking of another year to be DISCOvered!
This book returns to the true story of ones search for the perfect place to settle and flourishinside and out. Following unexpected job loss and subsequent house sale, Vanessa once more had important decisions to makeand quickly. Any romantic thoughts about living the dream were truly shelved for nowor were they? An opportunity had presented itself where the focus could shift toward lifestyle rather than location, so it wasnt a case of where to live anymore, but how to live. Once again, fate and intuition became faithful guides. A new life unfolded, consisting mostly of the enchanting company of animals and weekend walks with her loved one. But how can so little feel so abundant? Because its personally fulfilling and means so much. Now new threats to this tranquil lifestyle are on the horizon, but are they strong enough to challenge the new impetus that has awoken, to protect and defend all thats held dear?
If home is where the heart is and that home is one's own castle, then this special place is about to be discovered by one starry-eyed individual, her husband and five cats. In this fifth book about everyday true life, an idyllic countryside region to move to has been found but not so the actual property. To accept the current situation and favourable lifestyle would be easy, but that would mean ignoring the yearning to find a better life within a Forever Home at last. This may be a case of castles in the sky and so nothing more than a mere fantasy, but somehow life has a way of showing us all that's achievable. It’s time to shine.
Parenting is hard. So what do you do when you're parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.What can you do - how can you make it through the day - how can you help your child while also taking care of yourself? Maybe someone you love is parenting a traumatized child. Or perhaps you are a social worker, counselor, or other professional who sees families like these every day. You want to know how to better help them.In Dancing with a Porcupine, Jennie Owens shares with humor and raw honesty the compelling story of her struggle to save her own life while caring for three children she and her husband adopted from foster care. How could she stay loving, giving, and forgiving in the midst of a daily battle with children acting out the rage, resentment, and pain of their own traumatic pasts? When faith, endurance, and creativity are not enough, what's next?
From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
One of the country's most distinguished and critically acclaimed solo dancers and choreographers debunks the myth that dancers must retire from professional life as performers in their early forties. A performing artist since 1940, Daniel Nagrin initiated his own career as a solo performer in 1957 at the age of forty. With great wisdom and wit, this fiercely passionate veteran gives us an unusual and much-needed book that combines theory, personal philosophy, experience, and knowledge about dancers, dancing, teachers, mentors, and technique with practical information that ranges from nutrition, healers and treatments, sex, meditation, kneepads, and toe grips to the special problems and needs of dancers over fifty.
We all bear the knocks and chips of life in some way or other but we can adapt and still function whilst keeping our goals in sight. In this sixth book of the Forever Home Within series, all plans have been placed on the back burner but that's understandable. Follow this true story about everyday life and the search for a forever home which awaits. Something magical is cooking in this kitchen.
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fiction. Hilarious, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking, Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.
Alessandra Petrovich is forced to leave her home in Kosovo, as a teenager, caught in the struggle between ethnic groups and terrified of the father she loves. She and her mother hide among thousands of refugees seeking asylum in other countries. Their journey leads them to a small Midwestern town in the United States, where they find solace and create a home for themselves. After fifteen years, Alessandra finds out her father is desperate to find her. She is forced to flee, once again, this time without her mother. Orion Grey returns to the small community of Hideaway Canyon, Colorado, near his family, to recuperate from his last mission. Understanding the sacrifices required of his job, he struggles to rectify his idealistic childhood. Orion does what any man would, after finding an unconscious woman along the roadside during a winter storm. Alessandra becomes unwittingly dependent upon Orion and his family as her memory returns, and her past is discovered. Will Orion be able to help Alessandra find out where she came from? Does she really want to know? What kind of dangers will the woman bring to the peaceful mountain village? Can two people who have survived dubious pasts, find love? Everyone deserves their happily ever after and a place to call their forever home. A place filled with love and a sense of security. A Forever Home: Grey’s Ranch Trilogy represents hope for people who live on the margins of society and an opportunity to open the hearts of those of us who have our happily ever after and forever home, to those who don’t.
The book is a dive deep into the world of angels and spirits. Robert and Alice never expected their experiences to happen but happen they did. Shortly after their marriage, many unusually problems came to the surface causing Alice to suffer a breakdown that required hospitalization. Alice recovered, but no explanation for the cause of her breakdown was ever offered by her doctors. In the hope that further problems could be adverted, Robert and Alice, falling back on their comparative religion backgrounds, researched what similar kinds of breakdowns might explain what had happened to Alice. Their findings indicated the possibility of an experience affecting new tribal shamans in many parts of the world, called "Spirit sickness". This realization started the couple on an extended investigation into the world of spirits which lasted several years. During this investigation the couple met angels, spirit guides and others who blessing them with a vast quantity of knowledge and spiritual understanding. The couple also encountered demons, which had to be bravely confronted and defeated. The upshot of this work is their book, which documents for the first time a careful investigation of the world of spirit that all of us will inherit and someday be a part of.
