The Legacy of Passion
The Legacy of Passion

Author: Geri G. Cole

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1477265341

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HE LICKED THE SPOON AFTER DIPPING IT INTO A JAR OF PEANUT BUTTER AND I QUICKLY WARNED HIM, ''DONT PUT THE SPOON BACK INTO THE JAR!!! ''HE ANSWERED QUIETLY'' ''IT WOULD BE NO DIFFERENT THAN KISSING YOU.'' MY HEART POUNDED. I CAUGHT MY BREATH, SCENE; IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOKING DESK, AT THE TAMPA POLICE STATION. THEY WERE THE FIRST WORDS WE HAD EXCHANGED. AND ILL NEVER FORGET THEM. ''I KNEW YOU WANTED ME TO KISS YOU'' HE WhISPERED. THAT WAS A MEMORY OF OVER FORTY YEARS AGO. WE WERE SITTING QUIETLY ONE EVENING SHARING SOME OF THOSE EARLY MEMORIES OF THE MANY PASSIONATE DAYS AND NIGHTS SO LONG AGO. LIKE A CHILD WHO SAY'S ''READ IT AGAIN OR TELL ME AGAIN, ''I LOVED TO LISTEN TO THOSE MEMORIES REPEATED OVER AND OVER. BUT THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE REVEALED TO ME THAT HE KNEW THAt PASSION IN MY SPIRIT WAS LONGING FOR HIS LIPS TO TOUCH MINE.

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Author: Joseph J. Ellis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0393068277

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An absorbing, insightful profile of the revolutionary leader, president, husband, and father from one of our best historians, now in a beautiful new package. John Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the ambitions and principles that drove the revolutionary generation. Passionate Sage offers a brilliant introduction to the second president: his politics, his affinities for family and friendship even with political opponents like Jefferson, and his enduring significance. “Ellis’s palpable affection lends a pleasing glow to his profile of Adams, which is why Passionate Sage is his best book.”—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review “Impassioned and erudite. . . . A captivating portrait of this Massachusetts native as a wonderfully contrary genius possessed of an uncommon moral intelligence and farsighted political wisdom.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “The best portrait of a Revolutionary-era statesman.”—Evan Thomas, Wall Street Journal

Cunningham
Cunningham

Author: Richard Harman

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781854432605

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The author has dedicated the past seven years to this long-overdue and worthwhile tribute to the accomplishments of a great man.

Live Your Legacy Now!
Live Your Legacy Now!

Author: Barbara Greenspan Shaiman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-10-21

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1440166749

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In a world where racism, violence, illness, and poverty can feel so overwhelming that we often close our eyesand our heartsto the suffering around us, we may not believe we have the power to change things. As Barbara Greenspan Shaiman shows us in Live Your Legacy Now!, this simply isnt so. This part memoir and part how-to guide provides the tools and strategies to help you create meaningful change in your own life as well as in the lives of others. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Shaiman shares stories from her family history and over thirty years of her own life experience as a successful educator, business woman, and social entrepreneur to inspire and guide you to create a vision and plan for initiating a personal legacy. Shaiman details her effective ten-step approach by helping you: Identify your core values, interests, and skills Reflect on how you can use these assets to create meaningful projects that make a difference locally or globally Share these experiences with family, colleagues, and friends to create cultures of caring at home, at work, and in your community Live Your Legacy Now! provides a simple formula to help people of all ages and backgrounds live richer, more meaningful lives by creating projects for personal growth and social change.

Gandhi's Passion
Gandhi's Passion

Author: Stanley Wolpert

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199923922

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More than half a century after his death, Mahatma Gandhi continues to inspire millions throughout the world. Yet modern India, most strikingly in its decision to join the nuclear arms race, seems to have abandoned much of his nonviolent vision. Inspired by recent events in India, Stanley Wolpert offers this subtle and profound biography of India's "Great Soul." Wolpert compellingly chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was the result of Gandhi's passion: his conscious courting of suffering as the means to reach divine truth. From his early campaigns to stop discrimination in South Africa to his leadership of a people's revolution to end the British imperial domination of India, Gandhi emerges as a man of inner conflicts obscured by his political genius and moral vision. Influenced early on by nonviolent teachings in Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Buddhism, he came to insist on the primacy of love for one's adversary in any conflict as the invincible power for change. His unyielding opposition to intolerance and oppression would inspire India like no leader since the Buddha--creating a legacy that would encourage Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and other global leaders to demand a better world through peaceful civil disobedience. By boldly considering Gandhi the man, rather than the living god depicted by his disciples, Wolpert provides an unprecedented representation of Gandhi's personality and the profound complexities that compelled his actions and brought freedom to India.

The Great Passion
The Great Passion

Author: James Runcie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1635570697

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From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion. In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws him from the choir to be a soloist, Stefan's life is permanently changed. Over the course of the next several months, and under Bach's careful tutelage, Stefan's musical skill progresses, and he is allowed to work as a copyist for Bach's many musical works. But mainly, drawn into Bach's family life and away from the cruelty in the dorms and the lonely hours of his mourning, Stefan begins to feel at home. When another tragedy strikes, this time in the Bach family, Stefan bears witness to the depths of grief, the horrors of death, the solace of religion, and the beauty that can spring from even the most profound losses. Joyous, revelatory, and deeply moving, The Great Passion is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of what it was like to sing, play, and hear Bach's music for the very first time.

Greene & Greene
Greene & Greene

Author: Randell L. Makinson

Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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This text presents an overview of the architectural careers of Charles and Henry Greene. Their projects are categorized into periods and styles, beginnning in 1894 in Pasadena, and culminating in their separate careers, with Charles practising in Carmel and Henry remaining in Pasadena.

Passion
Passion

Author: June Jordan

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1619322420

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After decades out of print, Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights,” “Poem About Police Violence,” “Free Flight,” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people—and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.

The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich
The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich

Author: Thomas of Monmouth

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich is the medieval hagiography written in 1173. It tells the life story of a real personality, known as William of Norwich, that was supposedly tortured and killed by the Jewish community in the Medieval city of Norwich. The author of the scripture heard and recorded the story from a former Jew, Theobald of Cambridge. The story tells the life of William in the Jewish community that treated him well, at first. But later, they tortured him, mocking the Bible scenes of the crucifixion. This story by Monmouth had a significant effect. It started the intense discrimination against the Jewish community and eventually led to expelling Jews from England by King Edward I order.