Gathering No Moss

Gathering No Moss

Author: Don Feeney

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1491734884

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Don Feeney has seen it all. As a diplomat working for the United States, he served in embassies and consulates around the world. As an air force officer, he had some daring exploits of varying levels of sanity and sophistication. Hes lived, worked, and played in more than fifty countries on five continents. In his memoir Gathering No Moss, Feeney recalls his three-decade trip down the wild, weird, and surprising journeys of his life. A somewhat reluctant traveler, he conveys the heavy burden of loneliness on the road while driven by the search for meaning, spirituality, and love. His life has been one of thought-provoking questions, highly charged emotional situations, and brushes with both greatness and tragedy. Hes been an airman, an officer, an instructor, a commander, an administrator, a trainer, a consular officer, a manager, and a diplomat. Hes sold paintings on a street corner, washed dishes, worked in a paper mill, flipped hamburgers, painted houses, and tended bar. He smoked pot, drank too much, and fell in (and out) of love (including four marriages). He went AWOL, was shot at three times, survived a brain aneurysm, and beat colon cancer. His mantraThe more you know, the more you dont know sh*t or TMYKTMYDKSreminds us all that the human mind will never let you understand the human mind.


Gathering No Moss

Gathering No Moss

Author: Alan Hall

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0722350880

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Gathering No Moss is the autobiography of a possibly autistic child, born in 1925, who, idiosyncratically educated, grew up to see out, as a member of the Colonial Service, the end of the British Empire in East Africa. In later service with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, he witnessed novice states exulting in new-found independence. His last appointment, as deputy director of the Centre for International Briefing, at Farnham Castle in Surrey, was in an organisation devoted to inculcating, in those going ‘abroad’, better understanding of cross-cultural relations. Post-retirement, he keeps an eye, Pooter-like, on our changing world.


Gather No Moss

Gather No Moss

Author: Claire Janvier Gibeau

Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780533156931

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Determined to see all forty-eight states, Oliver Janvier sets off to learn more about the world than can be found in books or taught at school. Along the way he drifts from job to job, moves in and out of relationships, and is also witness to the Larchmont disaster and to his own brothers history-making athletic career. Spanning five decades of American history, Gather No Moss is a classic story of American wanderlust, stubborn independence, and the insatiable quest for new adventure.


Gathering Moss

Gathering Moss

Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2021-07-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 014199763X

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'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian 'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering read in its entirety' Maria Popova, Brainpickings Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In these interwoven essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as within the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.


Glorious Needlepoint

Glorious Needlepoint

Author: Kaffe Fassett

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1992-10-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780091776695

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Having revolutionized the world of knitting, designer Kaffe Fassett now turns to the world of needlepoint. "Fassett has firmly established himself as the single most exciting craft-and-color expert today."--Booklist More than 150 full-color photographs. "From the Trade Paperback edition.


They Stand Up in Broken Shells

They Stand Up in Broken Shells

Author: Nita Penfold

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1411666070

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First full length book by Nita Penfold whose work has appeared in over 30 anthologies and numerous small press magazines. She identifies the poetry in a contemporary woman's life through relationships and passages, digging deep for the taste of the grit and honey in everyday life.


The Wisdom of Many

The Wisdom of Many

Author: Wolfgang Mieder

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780299143640

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A collection of 20 studies of proverbs first published in 1981 by Garland. Among the general topics are structure, oral transmission, and practical reasoning. Proverbs examined in detail include African, Yiddish, Shakespeare's, Chinese, Irish, and those used in advertising. Includes an addenda to the bibliography. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Now, Not Then

Now, Not Then

Author: Dr. Parvathy Warrier

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1482859777

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Now as I stand Staring into the emptiness, A scroll of what was Unrolls itself, The pain, the agony And the silent sighs Of an enduring heart. What imminent danger lay in wait? Neither illness nor age No malignant malady, Perhaps a hard word From one of her kins Wrought havoc in her mind, A heart that knew only to feel And feel deeply for others Was thus stilled.