Download or read book Drying My Tears written by Liz Wilkey and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming blend of medical mystery, intimate journal, comic survival guide, and "zenchanted" map to acceptance, this memoir recounts the story of a family's journey within the often-invisible world of autoimmunity. The book leads the reader through the misery and mayhem encountered while one woman attempted to raise three daughters with autoimmune conditions, such as lupus, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Hashimoto's thyroidititis, and spondyloarthritis. It then details what happened when a life-altering, autoimmune disease called Sjogren's Syndrome swooped down to hit her squarely in the eyes as well. Covering topics as diverse as "Identity Theft," "The Doctor-Patient Fit," "Little House of Illness" and "Using Buddhist Philosophy to Deal with Chronic Illness," this book serves as a handbook of sorts for all those who wish to understand the emotions and obstacles encountered in living with chronic illness and provides a strategy for coping for the 50 million Americans who are currently living with autoimmune diseases.
Download or read book Sowing My Tears Reaping His Joy written by Marion Ferguson Witcher and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares how her relationship with God helped her to come to terms with her daughter's autism.
Download or read book The Topography of Tears written by and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs, you might think you’re looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you’re looking at her tears. . . . [There’s] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher’s images are the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a moment of intense feeling—and then vanish.” —NPR “[A] delicate, intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion.” —Boston Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper’s, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.
Download or read book Out of Faith written by Maria Compton and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS SEEN IN THE TIMES Maria Compton was born and raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Encouraged to keep her distance from outsiders, she grew up in a world of Church meetings, banishments and with the fear that the end of the world - known as the Rapture - was nigh. When she was still in her late teens, she married a man she barely knew. To those around her she lived the perfect life; dutiful wife, loving mother, devout Brethren woman. But underneath the surface, this life was far from perfect. Plagued by spiritual doubts, stuck in an abusive marriage and with her mental health in severe decline, Maria came to realise that she simply could not go on. And so, although knowing everything it would cost, she did the unthinkable: she left her church. Despite her attempts to stay in touch, Maria is no longer seen by her family, her friends or even her own children. But whilst she continues to grieve for everything she has lost, she holds fast to what she has gained: her liberty and her hope for the future. Out of Faith is testament to the strength of the human spirit even in the darkest of times, and an incredible story exposing the tangled ties between family, faith and freedom.
Download or read book Graham s Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cue Tears written by DANIEL. SACK and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively essays on the meanings and methods of tears in performance
Download or read book Graham s American Monthly Magazine of Literature Art and Fashion written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Side of Dark written by Alex Gordon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David hadnt felt like his normal self for days. He could not work out why. When David spots a mystery loner by the name of Kelvin David, life being to unravel, where a guide and a black dog appear and lead David into the tragedy of Kelvins life and that of his family.
Download or read book PSALMS of BLISS written by Edwin A. Hill and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Psalms of Bliss” is a journey, a walk through the lives of the author’s ancestors before him. The Author, Edwin A. Hill believes that by looking back, there is often revelation for life today. He states that “....the lives and life experiences of our ancestors have shaped much of who we are and who we can be, if we choose to understand the roads they have trodden”. He is saddened for our youth today, who have little knowledge of the beliefs held by their ancestors as role models. The book draws us to the author’s ancestors that trace back for over 100 years. Love from God offers access to a life in heaven as key to the “Bliss”, the joy shared generation to generation. Psalms of Bliss affirms the blessings waiting for all of our lives as we receive God’s gift of new life in our hearts. “New life” that many of our ancestors embraced. In stories, psalms and poems, he invites us into his heart to choose to join him in praises to God. Hill’s chapters and psalms are full of compassion, joy, faith, fears and even “Bliss” resulting from God’s blessings upon this family. Psalms of Bliss encourages us to rejoice with family and others from gracious hearts standing strong in the favor of God.
Download or read book Le Diable Boiteux Or The Devil Upon Two Sticks Translated from the French of Monsieur Le Sage written by Alain René Le Sage and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The girl he did not marry written by Iza Duffus Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People of the Bear Mother written by T. D. Austin and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most powerful shaman of the People of the Bear Mother invites a young woman to take her soul's great adventure by painting a new piece of animal art on the walls in the deepest chambers of the awesome Great Cave. The time has come for Little Bear to make the life-altering choice to overcome her fear of the terrifying old shaman, and in doing so, unalterably change all the lives her soul will subsequently experience even as her "lion eye" reappears in each lifetime to identify her avatar. But before she may embark on her hero's journey, she must be initiated as hunter and then as Seer through trials, ordeals, and the revelations of her people's mythology expressed in the art of the Cave. The tale builds to an unexpected climax as one soul experiences many lifetimes in a hunting culture where being born female or male, homosexual or heterosexual, young or old are equally valid ways of being human. Inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and the artwork of France's 35,000-yearold Chauvet Cave, the novel takes a fresh look at, and is a new take on, the life-ways and religion of our earliest ancestors through Little Bear's encounters with shamans, hunters, avatars, and painted caves. This story reveals that the spiritual messages hidden within this magnificent, incredibly ancient art are the same metaphysical beliefs of the New Age and the same universal human truths at the heart of every world religion and mystical philosophy. 2011 Book Competition Finalist Awards: USA Best Book Awards for New Age Fiction; IBA for Chick Lit-Women's Fiction; IBA for Gay-Lesbian Fiction.
Download or read book The 11 11 Code written by Hilary H. Carter and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever looked at the clock and been surprised at how often it says 11.11 or 2.22 or 3.33? The 11:11 Code tells the story of yoga teacher Hilary Carter, who was brave enough to follow the coincidences around numbers to see what would happen. To her amazement the number signs, in particular 11.11, led her to buy an ancient convent in Andalucia, Spain. The problems this led her to were in a different league to the normal restoring old continental properties so common on our TV screens today. Her financial backer died, her first builder ended up in prison and her second builder was paralyzed in a tragic accident. But that scratches the surface. Formerly a home to the Knights Templar, the building was both haunted and seemed to have a will of its own.
Download or read book Three Italian Epistolary Novels written by and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Italian Epistolary Novels looks at the development of a literary genre that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and counted among its illustrious authors Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These translations of three Italian novels by Foscolo, De Meis, and Piovene - never offered before in a single study - reflect social, historical, and stylistic aspects through 150 years of Italian literature from the birth of a touching romantic story to the time of the new currents in Italy and the period of World War II. The book is particularly suited for studies in Italian, European, and comparative literature programs.
Download or read book Angry Heavens written by David Michael Dunaway and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical novel, a skilled Charleston surgeon in the Army of Northern Virginia questions everything he knows as truth when faced with the horrors of the Civil War. The Civil War inevitably approaches. Two young Charlestonians, the Irish Catholic Mary Assumpta Bailey, and the English Protestant James Merriweather are soon to be intertwined through marriage, medicine, and their aversion to slavery. Mary Assumpta Bailey, her brother, Dr. John Bailey, and his medical apprentice, Dr. James Merriweather, openly serve anyone who walks through the doors of their Charleston medical practice – white, free blacks, seamen, or slaves. Equally, and despite its flaws, they also share an abiding love for the South. Dr. James Merriweather feels an enduring duty to the young men dying in battle and to his young family weathering the War on their small farm on Horlbeck Creek, South Carolina. Merriweather joins the War confident in the knowledge he can use his surgical skills to save the injured and send them back to their families. Rather quickly, Merriweather realizes how unprepared he is for the horrors of battle. Thus he begins a slow journey into his own war with darkness–his sanity precariously in the balance.
Download or read book Royal Blinds written by Jackie M. Rosh and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up without her parents, the twenty-five year young Summer managed to have everything under control for the better. She is the perfect wife to a perfect husband, and finally she gets her happily ever after in the suburbs. Loving her life and her job, she is facing the only thing she hates the most--secrets and lies. Keeping one dirty secret of her own, she managed to present business as usual up until she was introduced by her boss to Patrick Klainman, an entrepreneur who needed her help hunting his next business target. Summer questioned the man he was, and she kept wondering about his past. The more information she got about Patrick, the more questions and secrets she was learning about her own life. Fighting for her perfect place, knowing there was more than meets the eye, she struggled with the truth being revealed, and her life holding by a thread that has been wrapped in so many lies. Royal Blinds is a story of how we all were blindsided by one person or something we thought we knew best. It's a story about how life can be perfect one day and drastically change the next. It is about love and betrayal and a great friendship that at the end of the day gives you enough strength to face any curve ball, any lie, and any half-truth about the ones you love the most!
Download or read book Chains written by Kia Valcent and published by DarkRoyalty Books. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezmy Layne had what one would call the perfect life, with a promising career, a handsome and successful boyfriend whom she's saving her Chastity for till their wedding night. Not to forget two amazing friends, Vonley and Krista. When what was to be a special day turned horrible, her friends took her out to a popular nightclub and tells her to loosen up and have fun, as she needed a change from her daily routine. Ezmy was all in for the change until she woke up the following morning chained to a bed on an infamous millionaire playboy with faint recollections of the night before. To make matters worse, he made her understand she signed a contract that made her his submissive. Chained to this bed, two things come to her mind, what becomes of her desire to preserve herself chaste till her wedding night? How on earth did she find herself in chains, at the mercy of this man? What does life have in store for Ezmy? For more, get your copy now. It's a thrill.
