Download or read book Hiraeth Deep Wild Dreaming written by Leslie Spann and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiraeth is a Welsh word meaning an intense longing for home. A home that may never have even existed. This book is a window into the world I have created for myself through art. A world in which I attempt to heal by bringing the dark into the light. Through the alchemy of mixing the pain and grief with whatever is right in front of me. Finding the marvelous in the mundane. It is my humble hope to help others to heal through beauty. I hope you will enjoy it.
Download or read book Dreaming of Hiraeth written by Bianca Viola and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming of Hiraeth is a heart-rending tale about a true testament of friendship, drawing on a deeper meaning on what it means not just to survive, but to live. Julian Hayes--the moon: loner, introvert, dreamer--is haunted with the guilt of his actions one scarring night six years ago, when he ran away against his will from his twisted home, leaving him unable to remember most of his childhood. Theo Wilson--the sun: bright, bold, realist--was dropped off on the front steps of a group home as a newborn, with a record of the group and foster homes he has run from. No two people could be more opposites than Julian and Theo--yet they have more in common than most would believe. Both orphans, living in a group home in Brooklyn's Fort Greene, they suffer from dark pasts as they try to navigate their youth in the bustle of New York City and pave a worthy future for themselves. Despite their falls, secrets, adventures, and the many obstacles stacked against them, the best friends learn that perhaps the key to their survival is in each other--and that the fight is not in the fall, but the rise. A coming-of-age story about adolescence's innocence and life's meaning, Dreaming of Hiraeth deals with the realities of the foster care system, racism, sexuality, mental illnesses, and addiction in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book HIRAETH A LOST CHILDHOOD written by Michael Richards and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a PhD is a challenge for anyone. A PhD is a marathon of writing, thinking, getting it wrong, making breakthroughs, but with the ultimate aim to reach the crowning glory of being called a 'doctor', with the hope that it will bring the start, or the enhancement of a career, usually in academia. Writing a PhD, however, does not just come with the challenges of writing, but it is accompanied with life's challenges, therefore, writing a PhD inevitably ensures that you reflect on life, in what you have gained and in what you have lost or not had. This book is a collection of villanelles that reflect on a 'lost childhood' of not being in Wales, a hiraeth, a yearning and a nostalgic feel for the 'land of my fathers'.
Download or read book Hiraeth written by Michael Stansfield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human beings we know what home is, or for some of us the hope or ideal of what home should be: friends, family, nostalgia, all interlaced through love. It is an emotional, spiritual, and physical connection to a place that goes beyond the superficial level. In the broad sense I ask you the reader, ÔIs this world your home?Õ If you are honest with yourself you must confess it doesnÕt always feel like home. This path that you are about embark upon, the journey of my soul, to discover humanityÕs home. Not a home exclusively for one race, religion, or political creed, but a home for all, each accepted as members of one family and one creation.
Download or read book Hiraeth written by Y K and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiraeth is a story of myself, how I felt tangled in my own thoughts. I lived in my own world of love, hate, Friendships and frustrations. But never once did I regret it. Living that made me write this book, become a poet. To cry out my emotions verbally made me feel alive, made me the person I am now. And I’ll keep growing from now on. The books is also about how to find light after ages of being in shadows. I hope you all find your way of expressing yourself too.
Download or read book Hiraeth written by Anusha Ravi and published by The Little Booktique Hub. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt like you miss someone but you can't really understand who it is that you miss or what it is that you miss? Have you ever felt something empty in your heart, no amount of laughter, no amount of joy seems to fill it up? Then, my friend, you are experiencing a feeling called Hiraeth. Hiraeth is a Welsh word meaning longing for someone (a home). People into spirituality believe that this feeling is the first of the eight stages in a twin flame journey. Sounds magical? Sure does. This anthology tries to justify this feeling through various works by the co-authors. Through this book, the reader is sure to understand what Hiraeth would feel like and connect to the feeling if they are going through or have gone through the same.
Download or read book Zombie Fallout 16 Hiraeth written by Mark Tufo and published by DevilDog Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiraeth: A feeling of longing for a home that no longer exists or for one that never was. Mike and the crew fight for their right to survive, to carve out a new home, even though Mike cannot help but carry with him all the group has lost. He now wonders if he can continue to sacrifice his own for the sake of others. Terrifying new monsters are born amid the chaos, do our heroes have the will and the firepower to overcome these latest threats? Friends and foes alike will fall, and there may be no human victor. Follow along in this heart-slamming, non-stop thriller, Michael Talbot’s final journal, the conclusion of the epic adventure series: Zombie Fallout.
Download or read book Qu Sera Sera written by Aafreen Zafar and published by BOOKSQUIRREL. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a few things in life which will always be important, and the most important things in that list are - You and Your Family. At every step of the way, the people who stand by you, no matter what the situation or how hard the situation is are you and your family, because no matter how silly or stupid your action may be, they will always always have your back. Self-love seems so often unrequited, but the truth is that to fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness - and happiness comes when you love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults - like your family and the ones in your closest circle. The most important things in life are often misunderstood to be money and wealth, and everything that comes with it - but what good would any of those things be if you don't have your family or your nearest and dearest to share those moments with. Things may come and go, but the one thing that will remain the same till the end of time is the your family. Que Sera Sera is a book compiled by Aafreen Zafar, with 15 co-authors who talk about the importance of not just family and self-love, and making the world believe that the most important thing in the world is family and self-love because those are the things that matter.
Download or read book California Dreaming written by Noa Silver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocates from New England to the Bay Area in 2011 for a placement as an English teacher with Teach for America. Once there, she is eager to inspire a love of poetry and literature in her diverse but underprivileged students. Her own grandfather—a Holocaust survivor—was a storyteller and teacher who touched the lives of his students for years to come. Elena’s mother followed in his footsteps, leaving behind the hippie lifestyle of her twenties to become a university professor. But Elena quickly finds herself feeling disconnected from teaching, unable to inspire her students, and before long, she grows disillusioned with her career. She transitions to a role in an education technology startup—though she questions her decision, her motivations, and her values. Coming of age between the Occupy and #MeToo movements and against the backdrop of the 2016 election and California's ever-worsening fire season, Elena reckons with California as she imagined it and California as it really is. As she does so, she must also ultimately reconcile the person she envisioned herself to be with the person she actually is.
Download or read book Bella and Chaim written by Sara Rena Vidal and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir, Bella and Chaim, is a flowing collage which embraces and mingles memory, historical record, fragments of the 1950s, real-time journal entries and musings on the light, dark, and potential, of being alive. The whole is a testament to the human spirit. For eighteen months from late 1943, Vidal's parents lay in a small hole in the ground under a wood-sawing machine in the backyard workshop of a retired Polish policeman in a suburb of occupied Warsaw. In claustrophobic dark, they waited while outside a world war raged. Their story is inspirational; it begins with life in Warsaw in loving families, transcends the catastrophic circumstances in which they meet, fall in love, are witness to the destruction of a way of life and the murder of their entire families, endure entombment, and concludes with liberation, and immigration to make a new life. Born in a refugee camp in late 1945, Sara Vidal came to Melbourne early in 1949, graduated BARCH Melbourne University (1968) and joined the Victorian Public Service (1979-93). She has worked as an architect, human resources consultant, and consultant for not-for-profit organisations. She lives in Williamstown, Victoria, helps care for her 93-year-old mother, enjoys and helps out with four grandchildren, and continues to research and write. "Many migrant stories have recorded atrocities during WWII. But to link the deep past with the recent past and the present, and to find themes that connect them all, that is fabulous." - Liliane Grace
Download or read book Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum Ark Encounter and Museum of the Bible written by Paul Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Thomas chronicles a multi-level reception study of the Bible at both the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, USA. Thomas explores the commercial presentation of biblical narratives and the reception of those narratives by the patrons of each attraction, focusing upon three topics; what do young Creationists believe, how they interpret their beliefs from the Bible, and what is the user experience at the museums? The volume begins by explaining how Answers in Genesis (AiG) use Bible passages to support young-Earth creationist arguments, allowing for the chance to consider the Bible via physical means. Thomas then examines how the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter visitors receive the Bible (as presented by AiG) and how this presentation informs visitors' understanding of the text, exploring concepts such as the most prominent displays of the two attractions, the larger context of museums and theme parks and the case studies of the Methuselah display and The Noah Interview. He concludes with the summary of the user experience generated by the attractions, analyzing the degree to which patrons accept, negotiate, or resist the interpretation of the Bible offered by AiG.
Download or read book Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible written by David Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division's Closer and Nirvana's In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men. This book tells the dramatic story of Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece. Tracing the album's origins in the Valleys, an industrialised region of South Wales where the band spent their formative years, the author argues that The Holy Bible can be seen as a meditation on the uses and abuses of history.
Download or read book Hiraeth written by Sabina Lungeanu and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Larkin is obsessed with unravelling the whereabouts of his absent father, a sailor he knows next to nothing about. His mother remains infuriatingly vague on the matter. Can he trust the charismatic stranger that has come into his life?Fifty years later, Harriet's beloved aunt dies, passing on to her niece a bird cage and the urgent request never to open it.Then the voices start.When her family puts her in a mental institution, Harriet is determined to prove her sanity. Little does she know that she's been expected there... Set on the Atlantic coast of Scotland at the turn of the twentieth century, Hiraeth explores the nature of memories and the organic bonds they weave between souls.
Download or read book Contemporary Storytelling Performance written by Stephe Harrop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Mara Menzies, Clare Murphy, Debs Newbold, Rachel Rose Reid, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, and Vanessa Woolf, while Sally Pomme Clayton’s reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis, this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices, values, aspirations, and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice, taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience, while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new, inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in drama, theatre, performance, creative writing, education, and media.
Download or read book From Dust We Were Born written by Julia G.D Gobio and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amara Ira stands out. She really can’t help it. In the Seven Cities, shored up against the void outside by soaring concrete walls no one sees over, there is only white, grey, silver, and gold. Amara was born in colors that are forbidden even to wear, and it sucks. Her mother’s never satisfied, her picture-perfect sister is almost terrified of her, and everyone is constantly asking her, “Were you born looking like that?” as if she’d do this to herself. Provided she can pass “betrothal training”, Amara is mentally preparing to be handed off at eighteen to whatever man her mother can pay richly enough to take her. When Crown Prince Atlas (kinder and much more perceptive than she’d given him credit for) takes an interest in her, Amara’s fortunes seem ready to change. But there’s so much she doesn’t know. Somewhere else—somewhere that will strain the bounds of Amara’s imagination and shatter her understanding of the world and of herself—someone is watching her. A woman whose name lives in horror stories told to future brides, whose fate is bound into that of the golden royal family and into Amara’s own. That woman is sharpening her blades and saying to herself: “It’s time to bring her home. The gods are awake, and we have work to do.”
Download or read book The Long Field written by Pamela Petro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”
Download or read book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows written by John Koenig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
