My Poetry is at times raw, sensuous, evocative, and guarantees a stirring of all senses. Some poems will melt your heart, or arouse you, others will leave you with a myriad of acute emotion. Others will make you smile, even bring tears to your eyes. Some I hope will provide comfort in knowing you are not alone, even when life is not always kind. I see us all as clay on a potter's wheel, life’s trials represent the reshaping of who we are, and that reshaping is never ending. My poetry reflects that truth, and expression of my experiences.. I do hope that you will join me as I share with you the journey through a particular time of my life, Author Patricia Stanway
In this book, "A Life's Tapestry", Donna combines her photography and her words to tell of her life lessons. Lessons learned through experiences, strangers, friends, or loves. This collection of words and photographs is meant to inspire, teach, motivate, & sometimes just to evoke a laugh. Believing that everything happens for a reason: be it small or great: each life lesson is, in itself, important. As each thread in a tapestry does its part in keeping the whole tapestry together.
Martin Goldsmith served for many years as a missionary in the Far East and still travels the world speaking on his favourite topic -- mission. In this book he shares, with humour and penetrating insight, something of his own life and ministry, and encourages a new generation to live for Christ alone.
A holistic overview of the essential leading methods of techniques and a hands-on guide for business professionals and those in higher education. Communications, strategy and business development and growth are essential for success and profitability in the business process and are all topics that Geoff Hudson-Searle covers.
Tapestries uncovers the unique patterns that you weave throughout life. At a time of immense interest in biography, here is a unique set of keys to understanding the pattern and rhythms of your life. The unfolding phases of life are presented as the 'warp' of personal growth. You are invited to consider the 'shuttle' of the threads you use as the 'weft' of your life story. These threads include your temperament, gender, love, family, ethnicity, birth order, and developing relationships. A vivid picture of adult growth is presented. You can follow twelve very different people and their stories as they go through each life phase and wonder what will happen next. You can consider how you would respond to the choices they face. Life's dilemmas are explored: career versus parenting and choices related to old age. This opens up options: which roads to take in life and encouragement to reflect.
Jean Baggott is 'the girl on the wall' - a 1948 photograph taken of her when she was eleven - whose life was never going to be remarkable and the pinnacle of whose achievements would come from being a wife and a mother. Almost 60 years later, with her children gone, dealing with the loss of the love of her life, Jean began the education denied to her as a girl. Inspired by ceilings of Lincolnshire's Burghley House and by the History degree she had begun, Jean began to stitch a tapestry which looked back at her life and the changing world around her. It took sixteen months to complete. The tapestry consists of over 70 intersecting circles, each telling some aspect of her life. Some represent extraordinary events such as the moon landings or world historical news stories like the Cuban Missile Crisis; some circles comment on famous people and places she remembers, others about the music she loves - Pink Floyd - and the games she played as a child, and growing up during the second world war with her brothers. Each chapter of "The Girl on the Wall" features a circle from the tapestry and Jean's accompanying narrative, exploring the circle and the memories it evokes. It reveals an ordinary life in extraordinary detail. The result is a truly unique, touching portrait of a seemingly average British woman's life. To stand back and look at the tapestry is to be struck by the richness of one human journey - from 1940 to the present day. The girl on the wall would be proud. The book includes a full-colour pull-out of Jean's tapestry inside the back cover.
