"Smiles N' Moments" is a collection of 200 octet poems that traverse the realm of smiles. It encourages us to give and forgive, to forget, and to find peace. Every octet is a capsule that reminds you to be present at the moment, light up your heart, pause your worries, and rekindle a tender memory. It honours the power of a smile to energise and inspire, whether enjoying the fresh morning happiness of tea or admiring nature's splendour at daybreak. Whether you are a poetry enthusiast or simply seeking a dose of optimism, Smiles N' Moments is a pleasant read that makes you cherish the moment by sending you plenty of smiles, happiness, and connection.
"Smiles N' Moments- Volume 3" is a collection of 200 octet poems that traverse the realm of smiles. It encourages us to give and forgive, to forget, and to find peace. Every octet is a capsule that reminds you to be present at the moment, light up your heart, pause your worries, and rekindle a tender memory. It honours the power of a smile to energize and inspire, whether enjoying the fresh morning happiness of tea or admiring nature's splendour at daybreak. Whether you are a poetry enthusiast or simply seeking a dose of optimism, Smiles N' Moments is a pleasant read that makes you cherish the moment by sending you plenty of smiles, happiness, and connection.
“Smiles N’ Moments- Volume 2” is a collection of 200 octet poems that traverse the realm of smiles. It encourages us to give and forgive, to forget, and to find peace. Every octet is a capsule that reminds you to be present at the moment, light up your heart, pause your worries, and rekindle a tender memory. It honours the power of a smile to energise and inspire, whether enjoying the fresh morning happiness of tea or admiring nature’s splendour at daybreak. Whether you are a poetry enthusiast or simply seeking a dose of optimism, Smiles N’ Moments is a pleasant read that makes you cherish the moment by sending you plenty of smiles, happiness, and connection.
Smiles and Duct Tape follows the Torreys on their harrowing journey through Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), the rare and cruel disease that forever changed their son's life. It is a powerful and transformative story of a family's courage and willingness to carry on and live their new normal with grace, humor, and incredible strength.
Former bad boy-turned-inspirational messenger Preston Smiles shakes things up in the world of personal development, sharing a uniquely modern, love-based approach on how to live with more excitement, clarity, and confidence. Preston Smiles, born in Compton and raised in Los Angeles, is no stranger to a life of adventure. As a teen he joined a local gang that was first involved in petty theft but later escalated into more dangerous crimes. One night when Preston was fifteen, he was faced with a decision to take a routine ride of mischief with the friends or stay home. Intuition told him not to go. Within an hour, everyone in that car was shot. This tragic event shook him to his core and catapulted him to finding higher purpose for himself. Love Louder presents a positive approach for getting more love and meaning out of life. With the lessons he’s learned through the years, he distills ancient wisdom and new thought teachings into thirty-three timeless tools to living your best life and asks questions such as: -What do you truly believe you deserve? Are your actions reflecting that? -What are you a slave to? Facebook? Twitter? Alcohol? Him? Her? -Do you have the need to be “right” all the time? Love Louder can help you tackle these everyday challenges and teach you how to live with more excitement, productivity, clarity, and confidence. Full of insights and powerful anecdotes, Preston’s motivational story is a heartwarming read for anyone seeking guidance on overall happiness and fulfillment in life.
THAWZEN Moments: Autoethnographic Piano Teaching and Learning Stories is a collection of 46 vignettes, digitally edited photographs, poems, and reflective-reflexive narratives about children’s imaginative, creative, and magical lifeworlds of exploring music and piano playing. There are many ways of learning to play the piano, THAWZEN different ways of re/imagining music. There are many stories to share with you, never-ending questions to explore together. The stories included in this book are our happy piano play, our shared musical journeys in re/creating more meaningful and joyful piano teaching and learning experiences.
You will never forget your first trip to Irelandthe green valleys, the unmistakable scenery, and the people. Anne OFlynns first trip was just to find her family, take a couple of pictures, and meet some people. What she found, though, was so much more: people who accepted her as one of their own and a man who with one look could make her say yes to anything. In fact, she did say yes to Devlin ORourke, a man who could just say her name and she was his. Soon after the vows were spoken and a small cottage was purchased, their happy ever after ended just as quickly as it started. She was left with a broken heart and only pictures and memories, and she ended up back at the place where their story started. Would Devlin let her go, or will he show her that they could have their happy ever after?
No previous work has thoroughly analyzed nonverbal behavior in Homeric epic. Gesture and posture, conscious and unconscious manipulation of space and time, and involuntary "leakage" such as twitching and shivering can intensify and underline - or contradict and ironize - the speech of characters and hexameter narrative. Lateiner explores how the Homeric poems frequently and consistently employ gesture, posture, and vocalics to convey situation and meaning, sometimes instead of speech or instrumental action, sometimes in addition to those signals of meaning. Sardonic Smile has been written for a broad audience including classicists, cultural historians, anthropologists, semioticians, and students of comparative literature. A general introduction to gesture in life and literature, translated Greek, and a glossary of terms make the volume accessible to student and scholar alike.
What is Life? Neither is Life a journey from birth to death, nor is it the number of years we live on earth. Life is about ‘now’. This moment is Life. If we lose this moment, we lose Life. Unfortunately, most of us let Life escape us. We don’t live. We just exist! We fail to make the best of each moment. But those who discover the secret to live Life moment by moment are the ones who truly live with happiness and joy. This book will inspire you to Live Life in the now, moment by moment! It will help you discover how you can make the most of Life.
Right now I’m feeling much pain, so much so that if I don’t write this story I promised my kids would soon be done and always and never materialized, which has to be done, if only for my own sanity and to ultimately free us all up, I will feel lost. Now. What I didn’t expect to write is this other story. But that must be told to give a better understanding of why this whole mess happened anyway. My dupey heads might come up with better reasons, and then maybe someday they’ll write their books with fond memories and less pain. A bestseller will be yours, I’m sure. If not in the bookstores, it will be in your hearts. I started writing my book over thirty years ago and some. (Smile.)
