We Walk

We Walk

Author: Amy S. F. Lutz

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1501751409

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In this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience—the positive and the negative—as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism. Lutz's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. We Walk is inspired by her own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who should decide for those who cannot decide for themselves? What is the meaning of religion to someone with no abstract language? Exploring these questions, We Walk directly—and humanly—examines social issues such as inclusion, religion, therapeutics, and friendship through the lens of severe autism. In a world where public perception of autism is largely shaped by the "quirky geniuses" featured on television shows like The Big Bang Theory and The Good Doctor, We Walk demands that we center our debates about this disorder on those who are most affected by its impacts.


Why We Walk

Why We Walk

Author: John Yow

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781401602208

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In this tribute to the millions who walk America's streets in order to combat breast cancer, the common thread is a quest for a cure. This title's brilliant photographs bring to life the stories that are told throughout the book, showing the strength, determination and joy that embody these walkers.


At Night We Walk in Circles

At Night We Walk in Circles

Author: Daniel Alarcón

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1101622989

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A breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man’s obsessive search to find the truth of another man’s downfall, from the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has left their South American country, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, a legendary play by Nelson’s hero, Henry Nunez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that’s when the real trouble begins. The tour takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a landscape he’s never seen, which still bears the scars of the civil war. With each performance, Nelson grows closer to his fellow actors, becoming hopelessly entangled in their complicated lives, until, during one memorable performance, a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos. Nelson’s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson’s story—and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcón delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.


The Reason You Walk

The Reason You Walk

Author: Wab Kinew

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0143193562

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A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal star When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. The Reason You Walk spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. An intriguing doubleness marks The Reason You Walk, itself a reference to an Anishinaabe ceremonial song. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief and an urban activist. His father, Tobasonakwut, was both a beloved traditional chief and a respected elected leader who engaged directly with Ottawa. Internally divided, his father embraced both traditional native religion and Catholicism, the religion that was inculcated into him at the residential school where he was physically and sexually abused. In a grand gesture of reconciliation, Kinew's father invited the Roman Catholic bishop of Winnipeg to a Sundance ceremony in which he adopted him as his brother. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence. Invoking hope, healing and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, Kinew gives us an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and for a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.


We Walk Through the Forest

We Walk Through the Forest

Author: Lisa Ferland

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9789198580501

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The magic of the forest is calling and it sounds like birds singing and twigs snapping underfoot. What is that up ahead? Is it a butterfly or another animal behind that tree? We Walk Through the Forest follows a spirited young girl and her playful pup as they create wondrous adventures together in the great outdoors. Imaginations run wild as they walk, hop, and sing through the forest. Just how many woodland creatures will they encounter? Perfect for young adventurers ages 3-6 and their nature-loving family members. Book details: Perfect for all ages, especially 3-6, preschool and kindergarten Gets kids moving as they act out action words: walk, sing, slink, hop, etc. Engages young children with beautiful illustrations Written in fun rhyme that can be sung aloud Great for bedtime stories, group reading, and one-on-one And makes an ideal gift for your child, grandchild, niece or nephew, or a friend If you're searching for a delightful, whimsical children's book that makes you feel good while reading and encourages kids to explore the outdoors on a new adventure, then this book is for you. Join the adventure today!


We Walk By Faith

We Walk By Faith

Author: Churnet Winborne

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1493172042

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We Walk by Faith, is a continuation of the story Pastor Angie. This story tells of how Angie is still recovering from her stroke but, still with the love of her family, friends ,and congregation and her stead fast faith in the Lord she is still able to gradually recover and realize her true value and worth to the kingdom of God. This story shows that one can get through anything if they just have a little bit of faith.


We Walk the Path Together

We Walk the Path Together

Author: Brian J. Pierce

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Through reflections on the Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the medieval Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, writer Brian Pierce reveals the benefits of openness as a spiritual practice. By drawing analogies between Christian and Buddhist teachings, he identifies the common ground on which to grow in compassionate understanding and interfaith dialogue. Blending Christian tradition with the concrete spiritual practices of Buddhism, this work emphasizes the importance of seeing with a contemplative and compassionate vision. By sharing accounts of individuals who transcended their own suffering to embrace a more compassionate and understanding view of others, Pierce celebrates the moments of harmonious communion that draw us together. This beautifully written book is a model for respectful listening and a spiritual resource for prayerful meditation and scholarly study.


In Praise of Walking

In Praise of Walking

Author: Shane O'Mara

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784707576

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Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species. It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. It freed our hands and freed our minds. We put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us? In this hymn to walking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and minds. In Praise of Walking celebrates this miraculous ability. Incredibly, it is a skill that has its evolutionary origins millions of years ago, under the sea. And the latest research is only now revealing how the brain and nervous system performs the mechanical magic of balancing, navigating a crowded city, or running our inner GPS system. Walking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and can slow or turn back the ageing of our brains. With our minds in motion we think more creatively, our mood improves and stress levels fall. Walking together to achieve a shared purpose is also a social glue that has contributed to our survival as a species. As our lives become increasingly sedentary, we risk all this. We must start walking again, whether it's up a mountain, down to the park, or simply to school and work. We, and our societies, will be better for it.


WALK

WALK

Author: Jonathon Stalls

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1623176964

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A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature itself. In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue-heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia, the deep freedom of Nevada’s High desert, and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams--and opened new avenues for renewal, connection, and change. While most of us won’t walk or roll across the country, the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people, land, and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man, offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism, classism, and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists, to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world. WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody, not just know and study, their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance. With dedicated practices--like connecting to Earth stewardship, moving into vulnerability, and walking and rolling with intention--Stalls’ WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down, look around, and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when we’re driving by, flying over, and rushing past what surrounds us. It’s an invitation to move, to connect, to participate deeply in the world--and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.


We Walk on Water

We Walk on Water

Author: Cara Cobb

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12-14

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781970153002

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For 31 years, I lived and breathed Biblical principles as taught by the ministry of the "Move" while living on common property with others who had left jobs, families and security to walk the road to Perfection.