Download or read book Surprising joy written by Valerie Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After life with her grandmother in Jamaica, steeped in its culture, sunshine and traditions, Joy can hardly contain her excitement when she goes to join her mother in England. Though London in cold December is a shock, it is nothing to the shock that awaits when she goes to live with her mother.

Download or read book The Joy of Dahlias written by Linda van der Slot and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal gift book on this flower that has seen a rise in popularity, illustrated with beautiful color photographsThe ultimate book for every flower lover"Dahlias have enriched my life. By making this book, I want to share my passion and show how versatile and special dahlias really are;" - Marlies Weijers"Everyone is capable of letting dahlias flower. And what we love the most is spreading the love for flowers with #spreadtheloveforflowers." - Linda van der SlotThe dahlia, a flower that was once thought of as old-fashioned, has surged in popularity over the past few years due to the development of new varieties and an uptick in appreciation from Royals and celebrities. They appear in a broad spectrum of beautiful colors and eccentric shapes, and thanks to their long flowering time they are garden crop favorites. This inspirational book explores every aspect of the dahlia from its history to its sustainable cultivation.

Download or read book Bloom written by Janice Mason Steeves and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLOOM is a call to action for those individuals—not only in a later phase of life, but at any age—who feel the call to pursue a creative path in their lives. The pressures of the modern world force many into utilitarian careers early on. Artistic impulses lie unfulfilled, dormant. For some, at a certain point, there comes an ache in the bones, a deep longing for creative expression—a simultaneous sense of emptiness and overflowing feeling. This was the case for the author, Janice Mason Steeves, who left a career in psychology to pursue art in her forties. She went back to school, graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and went on to develop an international art career, an art consulting practice, and a highly sought after travel workshop business. Weaving together insights from her own art experience with the stories of 138 artists over the age of sixty, whom Janice surveyed for the book, Bloom offers guidance, inspiration, and support for the often difficult and misunderstood desire to change trajectory and take up a path of creativity and meaning. Mason Steeves then takes these observations a step further, suggesting that not only is it possible to come to art later in life and be successful as an artist, but that the distillation of life experience and self-knowledge gleaned from the artist’s path may enable older artists to step into an even larger role: that of a community elder. The elder role—acquired, in this case, through art but existing beyond art—is essential in our society, providing stability and depth, wisdomkeeping, space-holding, and care-taking, in Bill Plotkin’s words, “for the very soul of the world.”

Download or read book Paris in Bloom written by Georgianna Lane and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Get ready for a beauty overload. It’s food for the soul, it’s a book of dreams and details, of flowers so perfect you want to hug them to you.” —Carla Coulson, author of Paris Tango Paris—City of Love, City of Light, City of Flowers. From elegant floral boutiques to lively flower markets to glorious blooming trees and expansive public gardens, flowers are the essential ingredient to the lush sensory bouquet that is Parisian life. With beautiful photography, Paris in Bloom transports readers on a stunning floral tour of the city, and provides recommendations to the best flower markets and a detailed guide to spring blooms. Timeless in content, Paris in Bloom is a book for Paris lovers to savor again and again, one to keep on the nightstand to conjure fond memories of their first visit and inspire dreams of the next. “Brilliantly captures the splendor of French fleurs with lush photographs and elegant prose . . . A masterpiece!” —Laura Dowling, former chief floral designer at the White House “I don’t know how Georgianna does it. She manages to make Paris, already the most beautiful city in the world, appear even more charming, more elegant and more beautiful than it already is . . . Paris in Bloom is filled with a veritable carpet of pinks and whites, pastels and green portraits that make me let out an audible sigh of joy. This book can re-inspire you to believe that yes, life really is quite beautiful.” —Doni Belau, author of Paris Cocktails “Destined to become a classic of its type, Paris in Bloom is Georgianna Lane’s love letter to Paris and to flowers.”—Gray Levett, editor of Nikon Owner magazine

Download or read book Blooming Your Life written by Beca Lewis and published by Perception Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Proven Ways To Thrive In Your Life Pursuing happiness doesn’t bring happiness. Choosing it can. Accept that it is not only your right to be happy, but it’s a benefit to everyone in your life when you are. But how to choose happiness? How to stay in the habit of happiness? That is the tricky part, and what this book will do for you is provide answers and systems for you to follow. You will discover what a shift of perception can do for you and how to do it. Not theory. Practical steps that work. A tiny shift of perception can change your entire life. Using the metaphor of gardening, Beca Lewis once more guides us through practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to thrive in your life. Discover your true self and desires, and learn what to do to provide what you need. This book will guide you towards good habits and tiny thought changes that lead to amazing results. If finding out who you are and then living it has been difficult in the past, the problem is not who you are. The problem is the conscious and unconscious perceptions that have guided your life. If you are not thriving, filling out the garden of your life with happiness and joy, or you find yourself constantly doing the same thing with the same results, and they are not the ones you want, this is a book that will help you do things differently, and get the results that you desire. Here in this book, you will find a proven system with practical to-do tips that will shift your life towards what you want it to be. Beca is known for her ability to shift complex ideas about perceptions into simple tools that can easily be applied to daily life. She draws from deep spiritual roots while bringing in ideas from quantum physics to neuroscience to build an easy-to-understand guide for growing a life filled with happiness and purpose. Learn how to: *Discover your true purpose in life *Claim and live happiness no matter what else is going on *Give yourself what you need to thrive *Overcome doubt, despair, discouragement *Set a pattern of behavior that works for you … and much more Blooming Your Life will shift how you think about your life and yourself. It will give you the proven tools to transform your thinking so that your life, and the lives of those you love, can be consistently filled with happiness. And it is happiness that can shift the world away from greed and despair into what we all want to experience—heaven on earth.

Download or read book Poems written by John Rose and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Winter Began written by Joy Castro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves. Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal.

Download or read book Finding Joy written by Charlotte S. Kasl and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-11-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining spiritual insight with pragmatic guidance, this lighthearted yet practical handbook shows readers how to live a more balanced, richer life.

Download or read book 110 Lessions to Live Life Blooming written by and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Those Bloomin Kids written by J. Haney and published by Radiant Life Publications. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Finding Joy written by Charlotte D. Kasl and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical ideas to enhance playfulness, creativity, honesty & self acceptance.

Download or read book New York in Bloom written by Georgianna Lane and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A floral tour of the metropolis, filled with sumptuous photography: “A magical and unexpected look at New York . . . lovely and brilliant.” —Laura Dowling, former chief floral designer at the White House From stylish floral studios and corner shops overflowing with fresh-cut blooms, through bustling flower markets, to blooming trees and lush public parks, an unexpected softer side of New York is revealed in photos juxtaposing floral beauty with exquisite botanical details found in the city’s iconic architecture. Author and photographer Georgianna Lane adds to her acclaimed works Paris in Bloom and London in Bloom with this collection including: Parks and gardens Floral studios Market flowers Floral displays Field guides to locating and identifying common spring blooms A list of recommended locations and vendors A tutorial on how to create your own New York–style floral bouquet, and more “A bountiful and effervescent garden that brilliantly dots the landscape of the city that never sleeps.” —Robert Wheeler, author of Hemingway’s Paris

Download or read book Blooming Joy written by Sheikh Muhammad Asif and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated coloring book tells the heartwarming tale of Joy's Garden Adventure, as she explores the wonders of nature and discovers the true meaning of joy. With pages filled with intricate illustrations of flowers, bees, butterflies, and other enchanting creatures, children of all ages can join Joy on her adventure and bring the story to life with their own creative flair. Perfect for children who love nature, exploration, and creativity, "Blooming Joy: A Little Girl's Garden Adventure" is an engaging and educational coloring book that will inspire young minds and spark a love for nature that will last a lifetime.

Download or read book Bloom written by Kelle Hampton and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In her tender and genuinely beautiful memoir, Kelle Hampton encourages us to not simply accept the unexpected circumstances of our lives, but to embrace them like the things we wished for all along.” —Matthew Logelin, New York Times bestselling author of Two Kisses for Maddy Bloom is an inspiring and heartfelt memoir that celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother’s love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective. The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things—named The Bump’s Best Special Needs Blog and The Blog You’ve Learned the Most From in the 2010 BlogLuxe Awards—Kelle Hampton interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the unforgettable story of the first year in the life of her daughter Nella, who has Down syndrome. Poignant, eye-opening, and heart-soaring, Hampton’s Bloom is ultimately about embracing life and really living it.

Download or read book Penduka Study Guide and Journal written by Joy McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion Guide to Penduka: 21 Ways To Awaken Passion & Purpose in Everyday Life, this study guide and journal is loaded with thought-provoking questions, inspiring quotes, and space to journal and doodle your thoughts.Penduka is built on three core themes; passion, purpose and process. If passion is the fuel and purpose the direction in which we travel, process is the way in which we move.Research has confirmed what journal keepers and planner-loving mavens have known all along: you're far more likely to accomplish your goals simply by writing them down. Saying and dreaming something is one thing, writing it down and scheduling it is another thing entirely.This guided supplement will help you get your thoughts out on paper, your plans mapped out, and your passionate, purpose-filled skin in the game!

Download or read book In Bloom written by Eva Verde and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of Lives Like Mine... A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. Delph has kept herself small and quiet as a form of self-protection, ever since the love of her life Sol’s untimely death left her pregnant and alone at the age of twenty-four. Theirs was such a once-in-a-lifetime love, that the loss of her soulmate broke her heart ‒ and almost broke her, too. Years on, Delph’s protective bubble bursts when her daughter Roche moves out of the flat Delph shares with her partner Itsy and in with her estranged nan, Moon. Now that it’s just the two of them, the cracks in Delph and Itsy’s relationship begin to grow. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom. Is her life with Itsy all it seems? And has keeping small and safe truly been her choice all these years…? Praise for In Bloom: ‘I’m a sucker for a mother-daughter tale at the best of times and In Bloom certainly didn’t let me down. Bittersweet, funny, very real. I couldn’t put it down’ Louise Hare ‘Sensitively explores the lives of three generations of women as they search for freedom from guilt and regret. In this novel of hope and love Eva Verde shows that there is always the potential for a second chance’ Sarah Armstrong, author of The Moscow Wolves series 'A beautiful tale of resilience' Heat 'A really powerful, beautifully written story about three generations of working class women with each character so vividly drawn that they leap off the page' Red Online 'Raw and insightful' Good Housekeeping Praise for Lives Like Mine: ‘Londoner Eva Verde’s Lives Like Mine explores the theme of a school-run affair and the complications and joys it brings to a dual-heritage mother struggling with her intolerant in-laws’ Independent 'A bitter sweet story of longing and self-discovery, of deceit and regret. Visceral, authentic and funny, Eva’s prose reads like something between a conversation and a confession. An exciting new voice and a joy to read' Kit de Waal ‘Eva's writing breaks new ground in a confident and original voice, with a sharp eye for detail, wonderful characterisation and some seriously badass humour’ Yvvette Edwards, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats