Download or read book A Life s Journey Choice and Circumstance written by Robert Furmaga and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings in my life's journey are an examination of events with some of the people, places, and experiences I remembered, fitting them together and appreciating how they influenced who I was. So much time, choices--good and bad--mistakes, failures, and achievements. I had difficulty concentrating and retaining data in school, until I started taking private music lessons my first year in high school. I was learning to study and memorize music, which started to carry over into my high school classes. My life through graduation was disjointed, but I was making progress and retaining minimal data to enter engineering studies. I struggled through college and upon graduation with my BSEE, was on to a fifty-year professional career. My career gave me freedom of choice in engineering and marketing, both domestic and international. As you follow my path, you will see that I essentially learned to make choices based on data and conditions, void of impulse. Many times, I had no choice, confronted with unanticipated events. But even then, I would stop, analyze, and attempt some acceptable outcome. My decision to study engineering and complete my degree lacked any preparation or plan. I was strapped with financial burdens and changing work conditions, which I did not manage well. On top of this, I needed to live and grow personally with a philosophy for life, continued music studies, art and culture, and social development. Plus there was the added pressures of the selective service to be considered. If you have the opportunity, before you start a life's goal, make a plan with reasonable milestones, allowing for unforeseen events. If it takes years, allow for your being a human being, and if you require a companion, find one who will share your life in a loose relationship with love and respect, where you both understand it is not forever. No controls. Conflicts are not what you require in life. If you are lucky and have a memory where you remember almost everything, enjoy it!
Download or read book Luck and Circumstance written by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed director of such films as Brideshead Revisited shares the story of his youth and career, providing coverage of such topics as his childhood as the son of star Geraldine Fitzgerald, his relationships with Hollywood elite and the allegations that Orson Welles was his real father.
Download or read book American Circumstance written by Patricia Leavy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel about appearance versus reality – how our lives and relationships appear to others versus how they are experienced, and the complex ways that social class shapes identity, relationships, and the codes of friendship. American Circumstance also provides a window into the replication of wealth, power, and privilege. The novel can be used as supplemental reading in courses across the disciplines that deal with gender, social class, inequality, power, family systems, relational communication, intimate relationships, identity, American culture, narrative or creative writing. It can also be read in book clubs or entirely for pleasure. “American Circumstance is wonderful! The characters and story invite you into a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Highly recommended!!” – Carl Leggo, Ph.D., University of British Columbia “American Circumstance kept me up! I wanted to see how the characters’ lives untangled. I loved how Leavy challenged my cultural assumptions. Students will have a lot to talk about as they discover the 'sociology of everyday life' embedded in the fiction.” – Laurel Richardson, Ph.D., The Ohio State University “The characters were so compelling that I couldn’t stop reading ... a great beach read, or class text.” – U. Melissa Anyiwo, Ph.D., Curry College “Leavy writes in an engaging way that helps you ask important questions about class issues in America. This story keeps you interested and wondering why women make the choices they do.” – Margaret A. Robbins, The Journal of Language & Literacy Education “American Circumstance is one of my favorite texts to assign to my sociology students.” – Cheryl Llewellyn, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an award-winning independent sociologist and best-selling author.
Download or read book Master of Circumstance written by James Morgan and published by Yorkshire Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond victimhood and into mastery, is the life-changing premise of Master of Circumstance, a timeless rendition on overcoming victimhood and the insidious snares of negative thinking that debilitate millions of people everyday. This book, written by first-time author James Morgan, was born out of his real-life experiences of growing up poor in a steel town in the Midwest. Never having met his father and raised by a struggling single-mother, James became a byproduct of his environment. In this book, he shares the psychological techniques, mindset shifts, and practical tools he used to get his life on track and out of the victim mindset. He shares in a way that anyone can use to take back control and ownership of their life, no matter how disempowering their current or past circumstances may seem. In his authorial debut, James walks the reader through a poignant narrative on how to shatter the illusions of the victim mindset once and for all, and step into their true power as a master of their circumstances. As the name implies, this book is highly transformational and is the result of decades of James's personal trial and error before he found his true calling in life: becoming a family-focused licensed therapist and counselor. Today, James helps families grow stronger by harnessing the power of accountability while finding relief from blame, guilt, and the traumas of their past. His mission is to help people around the world achieve inner mastery over their lives.
Download or read book Five Bold Choices written by Jay Coughlan and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are times in our life when we feel stuck. Our noble desires for a successful career and family life get bogged down or derailed by the challenges before us. Whether it be a difficult circumstance or our own limiting beliefs and fears, we can’t seem to get past what holds us back. Jay Coughlan was confronted with a personal hell that started with making a terrible choice to drive home after drinking with his father. This decision resulted in a horrific car crash that killed his dad. Jay provides a remarkable story of perseverance from convicted felon to successful CEO. Five Bold Choices helps you break free from the barriers that prevent you from realizing your untapped potential. What if the things you fear and avoid are portals to your success and significance as a leader at work and at home? No one seeks trials, but they can put us on a pathway toward realizing our true purpose and potential. In this book, Jay Coughlan and best-selling author Larry Julian map out five bold choices that can get you unstuck and enjoying the journey God intended for your life. This book will not only inspire you to triumph over your most challenging issues, it will provide a practical plan to persevere and realize the true potential that lies within you.
Download or read book A Life s Journey written by Robert Furmaga and published by Fulton Books. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings in my life's journey are an examination of events with some of the people, places, and experiences I remembered, fitting them together and appreciating how they influenced who I was. So much time, choices--good and bad--mistakes, failures, and achievements. I had difficulty concentrating and retaining data in school, until I started taking private music lessons my first year in high school. I was learning to study and memorize music, which started to carry over into my high school classes. My life through graduation was disjointed, but I was making progress and retaining minimal data to enter engineering studies. I struggled through college and upon graduation with my BSEE, was on to a fifty-year professional career. My career gave me freedom of choice in engineering and marketing, both domestic and international. As you follow my path, you will see that I essentially learned to make choices based on data and conditions, void of impulse. Many times, I had no choice, confronted with unanticipated events. But even then, I would stop, analyze, and attempt some acceptable outcome. My decision to study engineering and complete my degree lacked any preparation or plan. I was strapped with financial burdens and changing work conditions, which I did not manage well. On top of this, I needed to live and grow personally with a philosophy for life, continued music studies, art and culture, and social development. Plus there was the added pressures of the selective service to be considered. If you have the opportunity, before you start a life's goal, make a plan with reasonable milestones, allowing for unforeseen events. If it takes years, allow for your being a human being, and if you require a companion, find one who will share your life in a loose relationship with love and respect, where you both understand it is not forever. No controls. Conflicts are not what you require in life. If you are lucky and have a memory where you remember almost everything, enjoy it!
Download or read book Journey Through Heartache written by Charlene Roberson Chandler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational autobiography focusing on the importance of life´s choices, and a personal journey and struggle out of the depths of grief, heartache, and despair in coping with a mentally ill husband, a shattered marriage, and residual problems involved in raising a child alone. Plus the adventures of a new beginning, a new career, the miracle of answered prayer through a closer relationship with God, and the ups and downs of a hilarious courtship of two people in middle age that ended in marriage.
Download or read book Choose Joy written by Kay Warren and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate Bible teacher Kay Warren shows women--even those who battle depression and anxiety--that a joy-filled life is within their reach.
Download or read book Different written by Sally Clarkson and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan was different and Sally knew it. From his early childhood, Nathan was bursting with creativity and uncontainable energy, struggling not only with learning issues but also with anxiety and OCD. He saw the world through his own unique lens—one that often caused him to be labeled as “bad,” “troubled,” or someone in need of “fixing.” Bravely choosing to listen to her motherly intuition rather than the loud voices of the world, Sally dared to believe that Nathan’s differences could be part of an intentional design from a loving Creator with a plan for his life. She trusted that the things that made him different were the very things that could make him great. Join Sally and Nathan as they share their stories from a personal perspective as mother and son. If you are in need of help and hope in your own journey with an outside-the-box child, or if you’re an adult trying to make sense of your differences, you’ll find deep insight, resonance, and encouragement in the pages of this book. Dare to love and nurture the “different” one in your life.
Download or read book Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance written by Ruth Emmie Lang and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Told with brains and heart" —Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment "Bristles with charm and curiosity" —Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump "A wholly original and superbly crafted work of art, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a masterpiece of the imagination." —Lori Nelson Spielman, New York Times bestselling author of The Life List and Sweet Forgiveness "Charlotte's Web for grown-ups who, like Weylyn Grey, have their own stories of being different, feared, brave, and loved." —Mo Daviau, author of Every Anxious Wave Ruth Emmie Lang teaches us how to find magic in the ordinary in her magical realism debut Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance. Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places, jeopardizing not only his own life, but the life of Mary, the woman he loves. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance tells the story of Weylyn Grey’s life from the perspectives of the people who knew him, loved him, and even a few who thought he was just plain weird. Although he doesn’t stay in any of their lives for long, he leaves each of them with a story to tell: great storms that evaporate into thin air; fireflies that make phosphorescent honey; a house filled with spider webs and the strange man who inhabits it. There is one story, however, that Weylyn wishes he could change: his own. But first he has to muster enough courage to knock on Mary’s front door.
Download or read book A Journey written by John S Campbell MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us repeatedly grieve, heal, and reinvent ourselves throughout our lives. Being aware of, and active in, this inherent aspect of our existence I believe to be a less painful and more satisfying way of living than blindly struggling with, or resisting, these natural processes.-John S. Campbell, M.D., author of A Journey: Creative Grieving and Healing. "We all die, he seems to be telling us. What is far more important is that we live a meaningful life before that time comes.". "We all need to dig deep to find our own wisdom so we may understand what John is telling us."-Nikki DeFrain, M.S, and John DeFrain, Ph.D. from their Foreword.
Download or read book The Journey written by Adrian Luzzi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AllHumans Have Dreams... And it is in the beauty and mystery of those dreams that the meaning of life resides. While conventional wisdom tends to suggest that dreams and dreamers are randomly paired, the history of mankind is full of examples showing the meaningful and synchronistic blending of the individual's most beautiful visions and his or her purpose in life. For centuries, perhaps millennia, the question of what are we here for? has puzzled humanity and tested the passage of time in a crusade to find its answer, which lies nowhere but in the deepest confines of our own hearts. Only those truly wanting to know, will find their way through the mystic and fascinating quest to meet the who we were meant to be. The Journey is a collection of profound and thought provoking reflections aimed at helping you uncover the reason why you are here and in so doing unlock the most magnificent sides of yourself to ultimately live your life in its fullest forms. You will be presented with concepts that will question some of your basic assumptions and lead you to decode the language of Universal signs, which will allow you to experience life in a completely different dimension. here is much more than what the eyes can see and only by immersing into the realms of the heart, the true blessings of life, love, and contribution can be appreciated and rediscovered. Life is God's gift to us, what we do with it is our gift to God Amish Proverb
Download or read book Life is A Choice written by Belay Gaga and published by Belay D Gaga. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From birth until our very last breath, we are faced with things that could change the course of our lives forever. Those things could be opportunities, events, or choices that one makes, but once we pass away, we leave a legacy behind us for other people to see and admire what we once were. We either leave such an impressive exemplary life behind that people look up to us as an example and respect us and try to follow in our footsteps. Or we lead such a tragic and morbid life that people use it as a cautionary tale. The choice is in each once hand.
Download or read book Notes from the Road Vol 1 written by Rebekah Garvin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a journey. The path can be rather difficult to find and follow. These "Notes From the Road" have been dropped along the way to mark the trail. You are invited to come alongside for a mile or two. Venture down into the valleys, brave the dark forests, break out of the trees, and stand on the mountain top to feel the wind in your face. And, when the time comes, bid a fond farewell and venture down your own path. This book contains a small collection of journal entries from fellow travelers who struggle with their brokenness, encounter God and find out that He is still speaking. Authors: Rebekah Garvin, Chris Garvin, Tiffany Reynolds, David James, Cherise James
Download or read book Dawn Ings written by Dawn Elledge and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn Waddell Elledge lives and writes in Nashville, TN. She grew up twenty miles north of Nashville in the suburb of Hendersonville, TN. Dawn's home place, called Monthaven, (named after her grandfather, Mont Comer; founder of the former Washington Mfg. Co. in Nashville) serves today as the home for the Hendersonville Arts Council. Dawn's mother, the late Jackie Comer Waddell was a popular Nashville native in the Hendersonville area. Dawn is inspired by her mother's love for writing. Jackie Waddell wrote for many local newspapers, while Dawn and her eight siblings enjoyed the opportunity to be a part of their mother's passion for the community. Dawn became a registered nurse after changing her college major from theatre to nursing. She currently works as an independent care manager, helping seniors and their loved ones with long-term care issues. She enjoys speaking to groups on the subject of planning for long-term care. Dawn also works when needed at Summit Medical Center; an HCA hospital outside of Nashville, TN. A deep love for the elderly extends into Dawn's free time when she can schedule singing with seniors at the long-term care facilities, or go for a visit. Every Christmas finds her singing favorite holiday carols to many elderly groups in the Nashville area. Dawn's vocal abilities have afforded her many invitations to weddings, parties and funerals, where many have been blessed with her personal touch. Dawn has been involved with community theatre and chorus for many years. Home is where Dawn's heart is. She is a devoted home-manager, home school mom, and home-based business entrepreneur. Dawn is married to Hugh, who is also a registered nurse, and has three children; April, Mary-Jacalyn and Zach. Dawn and Hugh coordinate the inner city ministry at their church.
Download or read book Chance and Circumstance written by Carolyn Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.
Download or read book Childless by Marriage written by Sue Fagalde Lick and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First you marry a man who does not want children. He cheats and you divorce him. Then you marry the love of your life and find out he does not want to have children with you either. The three he has are more than enough. Although you always wanted to be a mother, you decide he is worth the sacrifice, expecting to have a long happy life together. But that's not what happens. This is the story of how a woman becomes childless by marriage and how it affects every aspect of her life. This is the book of my heart, the one I had to write. Ever since I realized I was not going to have children, I have felt recurring grief and an emptiness in my heart. I am different from most women, but I have found that I am not alone. There are many of us childless women, and I think it's important to share our stories about what it's like when you don't have children in a world where most girls grow up to become mothers. I hope this book offers comfort to those who are childless and understanding to those who are not. If it makes you smile here and there, even better.
