If we live each day just as it is, a whole world in one day, then we discover infinite subtleties, signs, symbols. Who do we bump into on the street, what we eat, how is the weather. If we listen carefully, there is a melody being played, quietly in the background. This collection of words tries to capture those melodies, to find the sway in our daily comings and goings.
Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour brings together the fruits of Susan Perrow's work in storymaking. It is richly illustrated with lively anecdotes drawn from parents and teachers who have discovered how the power of story can help resolve a range of common childhood behaviours and situations such as separation anxiety, bullying, sibling rivalry, nightmares and grieving.
“A love poem to the living things that inhabit the mountains and rivers of Washington, coastal Oregon, and southwestern British Columbia.” —Saul Weisberg, executive director, North Cascades Institute More than just a field guide, Cascadia Revealed is the essential trailside reference for naturalists, hikers, and campers. With engaging prose and precise science, Dan Mathews brings the mountains alive with stories of their formation and profiles of the plants, animals, and people that live there. This is the perfect overview to help you discover the wonders of the region. Covers the Coast and Cascade Ranges, the Olympic Mountains, the Ranges of Vancouver Island, and the Coast Mountains of southwestern British Columbia Describes more than 950 species of plants and animals User-friendly, color-coded layout, with helpful keys for easy identification
Have you ever wondered what heaven is like? Do you believe what the Bible says? Are the streets really paved in gold? Are there many mansions there, and God has one just for you? Do we really know the answer? If you believe in the Bible, the answer is yes. But if you are a skeptic, you really don't know. I believe what the Bible says, and I let my imagination take it even further. We can only imagine what heaven is like. You want to believe it is a beautiful place to live before and after death. My Bible states that God knew me before I was in my mother's womb. That says to me that I was a living being in heaven before I was ever born. This book is about a child's many adventures that may have happened while living in heaven. Let your imagination take you to a place without boundaries. A place of peace, love, and the unexpected. A place where you defy the norms. A place of order, but unrestricted by gravity, by your senses, and by your imagination. Nothing to inhibit you from letting you dream the unimaginable. Have you ever lassoed and ridden on the back of a giant butterfly? Have you ever played hide-and-seek with your guardian angel? In my vision of heaven, my granddaughter Arrianna has. She is one of the littlest angels that enjoyed many adventures while living in heaven before she was born. When Gabriel called her name, Arrianna knew she was about to be born. She was getting new parents. The excitement was too hard to contain. She loved living in heaven and wanted to remember everything and everyone. She wanted to tell her new mother about her life in heaven's gardens. About her adventures that were so amazing. The only way she could share her life with her mother was through her mother's dreams, so she wrote her a letter.
"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.
Life is unpredictable. When we least expect it, it can be changed forever. That moment came for author Benedetta Lino when her one-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, the possible result of a serious adverse reaction to the DPT vaccination. Yet in the years to come, Benedetta refused to give up hope and refused to let her daughter experience anything less than true and unconditional love. Heartwarming, yet bittersweet, Tears of My Angel recounts the years of struggle, pain, love, and hope that the Lino family endured. Benedetta recounts the early years of her daughters life, of the numerous tests and hospital stays, until the diagnosis ?nally came in 1985. But from that moment on, things only became more di?cult. As Benedetta and her husband learned to care for their daughter in the comfort of their home, they found strength in each other and in the love they had for Laura. As the years passed, and the normal milestones of a childs life passed with-out being celebrated, the family instead celebrated the beauty of life, of Lauras courage, and of the power of love. Tears of My Angel inspires, educates, and encourages, but most of all, it rea?rms the ability of hope and love to sustain us through our darkest days.
"In life, we are blessed to have our Angels help guide, protect, and comfort us. Maudy reassured me what I have always felt and known. I am so thrilled that Maudy and Gail, with their extraordinary wisdom and love, bring people closer to their own wonderful and personal experiences." —Carnie Wilson, Singer and Actor Your loved ones in heaven are with you all the time In Angel Messages, Maudy Fowler and Gail Hunt confirm what many people intuitively feel—angels share messages from our loved ones and they help us when we need them most. Feel the arms of the angels embrace you as you focus on the love, light, and laughter that come when you open up to these profound messages. Discover how to hear the angels as they provide guiding signs, and experience the peace and comfort of tapping into your own spiritual connection. Sharing beautiful stories and warmhearted messages, this book helps you feel the love that can only come from that special place that's beyond this world.
Billy Walker is born to a missionary family in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He runs away from boarding school in Zambia and gets tangled up in the "Simba" conflict. His journey turns into a battle to survive and to outwit a group of commandos who are after him. This graphic adventure story is set in the 1960s and recalls actual events experienced by the author, giving the reader a roller coaster read through the African bush, with a twist in its tail.
Solariad of Surazeus - Guidance of Solaria presents 114,920 lines of verse in 1,660 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2006 to 2011.
Elizabeth Bishop, who constructed poems of crystalline visual accuracy, is often regarded as the most painterly of twentieth-century American poets. In Deep Skin, Peggy Samuels explores Bishop's attraction to painters who experimented with dynamic interactions between surface and depth. She tells the story of the development of Bishop's poetics in relation to her engagement with mid-century art, particularly the work of Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters, and Alexander Calder.Contemporary conversations about the visual arts circulating among art historians and reviewers shaped Bishop's experience and illuminated aesthetic problems for which she needed to find solutions. The book explores in particular the closest intellectual context for Bishop, her friend Margaret Miller, who worked as a research associate and later associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art. Samuels traces a complex and rich four-way metaphor in her portrait of Bishop's methods: surface of verse, surface of painting, skin, and interface between mind and world.The visual arts helped Bishop to develop a new model for lyric: the surface of verse becomes a threshold that opens in two directions--to nature and to the interior of the poet. Bishop's poetics is very much about the touch of the materials of the mind and world inside the materiality of verse. Translating and revising some of the concepts from the visual arts in her own linguistic medium, she begins to experiment with modulation, absorption, and incorporation across multiple registers of experience.
