The creator of Little Owl's Night explores and celebrates the complexities of what makes us who we are in this comforting and thoughtful picture book. A young narrator describes herself: a girl, a granddaughter, Indian, and American. Soon, we see the young girl as a plethora of things: selfish and generous, mean and kind, brave and mischievous. While many of these qualities oppose each other, the context and illustrations make it abundantly clear that she speaks the truth. She is a walking contradiction, and that is precisely what makes her both a unique individual and an essential piece of the greater world around her. Divya Srinivasan shows what makes us human and proud to be who we are.
Can show-and-tell day be saved? It’s show-and-tell day at school, and Sam and his friends are feeling lots of emotions. He wonders why he feels flippy in his tummy. And why is Alex stomping his feet? And does Hudson usually have such a big grin? After several unchecked feelings threaten to ruin the big day, Sam and his friends start to learn how to give each emotion a name and ask God to help them remember that “a feeling is just a feeling—it’s not in charge of you.” In a world where kids are dealing with everything from sibling rivalry to bullying, divorce to tragedy, What Am I Feeling? offers a biblically grounded way for children to verbalize their feelings, develop empathy and self-control, and understand their wonderful God-given emotions. BONUS! Also includes a pull-out feelings chart for your wall! Go to bhkids.com to find this book's Parent Connection, an easy tool to help moms and dads (or anyone else who loves kids) discuss the book's message with their child. We're all about connecting parents and kids to each other and to God's Word.
This is a true story, and it will tell you aboutA Ms. Mary Anderson and her family. She was my grandmother, and I heard her say so many times, aEURoeI am what I am.aEUR She was born in1900. At that time, segregation was bad. Her mother was white and her father black. This story will tell you about rejection that was agonizing, but through all the heartaches, troubles, disappointments, and pain, they found peace in the Lord Jesus Christ.A As you read, you will know that it had to be God who was there and brought us all through. If you are in a place in your life that you donaEUR(tm)t know how you can go on or how you can make it, just remember with God, all things are possible.
Widely accessible are a vast number of spiritual tools and teachings designed to help us cultivate a better understanding of ourselves, our world around us, and our role within it. Many of these teachings were, and continue to be, instrumental to my own journey of understanding. In 2016, that journey expanded to become one that includes Connection—connection to a higher version of self, and seemingly beyond self—to information that has completely decoded and recontextualized my perceptions of reality and human experience. I documented all of it. Having spent many years integrating this information while simultaneously striving to live my life in a way that is worthy of it, I now feel compelled to step out of the “spiritual closet” as one who channels—to share the documentation of my Journey’s transformation, as well as all of the transformational information received. Personal interpretations and perspectives are minimally offered so that each may receive this information in resonance with their own frequency, but much loving guidance is provided. Please be forewarned that Contemplation will be required to discover the multi-faceted and multi layered truths within this information. Other than being an observant, attentive, curious, questioning human, I am wholly without any recognizable accreditations that might qualify me to share any Wisdoms or Truths. Thus I am a living example of the Connection available to every human, merely accessing these abilities a little sooner than most of my collective siblings. With genuine and loving intention, I Trust and release this body of work to help expedite or birth for others, connections to and beyond self, that they may find their own versions of Wisdom & Truth. Towards living a life in Service, this Sharing with you, dear Seeker. Vanita
Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from the much-loved Samantha Bee, the Most Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . Critics have called her “sweet, adorable, and vicious.” But there is so much more to be said about Samantha Bee. For one, she’s Canadian. Whatever that means. And now, she opens up for the very first time about her checkered Canadian past. With charming candor, she admits to her Lennie from Of Mice and Men–style love of baby animals, her teenage crime spree as one-half of a car-thieving couple (Bonnie and Clyde in Bermuda shorts and braces), and the fact that strangers seem compelled to show her their genitals. She also details her intriguing career history, which includes stints working in a frame store, at a penis clinic, and as a Japanese anime character in a touring children’s show. Samantha delves into all these topics and many more in this thoroughly hilarious, unabashedly frank collection of personal essays. Whether detailing the creepiness that ensues when strangers assume that your mom is your lesbian lover, or recalling her girlhood crush on Jesus (who looked like Kris Kristofferson and sang like Kenny Loggins), Samantha turns the spotlight on her own imperfect yet highly entertaining life as relentlessly as she skewers hapless interview subjects on The Daily Show. She shares her unique point of view on a variety of subjects as wide ranging as her deep affinity for old people, to her hatred of hot ham. It’s all here, in irresistible prose that will leave you in stitches and eager for more.
Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.
This book’s title, I Am What I Am, is an original version that will cause individuals to think about their true reality and purpose, rather than their survivor mode skills based on talents and creative gifts. We are much more than we are able to see in a mirror’s reflection. We are more than other people’s opinions of us! We are specialized creations created by our Heavenly Creator for divine purposes far beyond any ordinary “finite” mental interpretations. “We are what we are by a higher and extraordinary mind of exceptional wisdom and love beyond our superficial translations to impress the carnal-minded.” I Am What I Am is intended to get people to see themselves as a reflecting light of an unlimited intelligence and consciousness to produce immeasurable potentials through belief and faith modes. The Living Word is designed with instructions to show us how to excel beyond human titles and visible things.
In 17th century Rome, where women are expected to be chaste and yet are viewed as prey by powerful men, the extraordinary painter Artemisia Gentileschi fends off constant sexual advances as she works to become one of the greatest painters of her generation. Frustrated by the hypocritical social mores of her day, Gentileschi releases her anguish through her paintings and, against all odds, becomes a groundbreaking artist. Meticulously rendered in ballpoint pen, this gripping graphic biography serves as an art history lesson and a coming-of-age story. Resonant in the #MeToo era, I Know What I Amhighlights a fierce artist who stood up to a shameful social status quo.
Everyone lives their lives by what they have learned and experienced. We are all different and live different lives. Some people live uneventful normal lives. Others have very strange lives filled with a roller-coaster of events. This is what Sally learned when she received a package one day. Sally was newly married to a wonderful husband. This is the life she had wanted for as long as she could remember. She just wanted to be normal. Sally was adopted and never knew her birth parents. She always wondered what they were like as most adopted children do. Yes she had a fairly happy childhood and a loving mother that raised her but still she wondered. That is until the package came. It changed her life forever. As the saying goes,"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." In the package Sally found what she had been looking for all her life. It was nothing like she had imagined. It was the truth of why she was abandoned at one year old and who her mother and father were. This story tells of why someone could abandon a child. It may not be a good reason but maybe it's one Sally could understand. You might not agree it was a good thing to do but maybe you will understand too. Understanding why people do what they do is key to understanding ourselves. Under the same circumstances would you do the same thing? We all do things we regret. In the 60's it was popular to go find oneself. When we find ourselves we may not like who or what we are. Here is a story of someone who did just that. He found out who he was and what he had to do to survive this world. Maybe it was selfish maybe it's the ultimate sacrifice. Who are we to judge others? His story also helped his daughter find out who she was. Maybe it will help you understand that people make terrible choices for what they think to be good reasons. After all we are only human.
"Little Bird Told Me" is a hippie novel that gets its title from parts in the book where an American Indian named "Little Bird" helps bring a hippie couple to enlightenment. The women member of the couple utters a cliche' about her new-found enlightenment by saying, "A Little Bird Told Me" To say anything definite about the plot would be giving it away, but it contains a little bit of everything. It is a highly psychological, mystical, surrealistic plot that involves a young hippie couple who reach enlightenment. It involves their tragedy and triumph. There is kidnapping, mental illness, psychedelia, folk-rock, radicals and liberals, good hippies, a hippie terrorist, amateur telescope makers, ecological power companies, gurus, enlightenment, and many other things. This book will also be produced in serial podcast form around February 2007 at: http://littlebirdtoldme.podomatic.com and will be sold at http://www.audible.com and on iTunes , at a modest price, which I hope compassionate people will gladly buy. Stay tuned.
