Download or read book Fragrance of Remembering Celebrating Mom written by Zia Hajeebhoy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Mom Mom had her own brand of intuition and wisdom. Her biggest gift was her ability to love all her four children absolutely equally and unconditionally. The most valuable gift she left us, is the ability to love life, to see joy and beauty in every thing. To sing, to explore, to experience. To make friends and welcome people into our lives and hearts, unconditionally, non judgmentally. She taught us the value of humanity. Ours was a secular home. Every one was welcome and no one was an outsider. We celebrated every festival, we prayed to no one God. We simply lived good lives. Moms amazing feat was that she called every one for their birthdays, anniversaries, special occasions year on year. She never missed it. People young and old, from all walks of life looked forward to that call. People will miss that call. Instead of a funeral we celebrated her life of inclusivity. No ceremonies. Six different people from diverse communities said a short prayer each. We shared stories and sang all her favourite songs. We dressed her to look beautiful as she wanted to. We cut her cake and sang happy birthday. As her ashes flowed away into her beloved Arabian sea, we sang Abide With Me, a hymn she loved. Mom went the way she lived. Smiling, caring, living. I am grateful to the universe for this blessing. I celebrate the long life Mom lived through these memories. I hope to give comfort to those who have lost loved ones. Many much too early. Many in difficult circumstances during Covid. Thank you to friends and family and to Mom, who ensured that we all stayed connected, leaving us with a legacy of love.
Download or read book Our Time to Be Blessed written by Dawn Lynn Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and motivational speaker Dawn Lynn Miller spreads God's love to readers as she pens Our Time to Be Blessed, a heartwarming tale of family triumph amidst a world of broken families and single parenting. Compiled from many tales pieced together from relatives, this true story of the author's family contains details that shaped her life both positive and negative molding her into what she is today. Here, she includes the key individuals her dad, mother, stepmother, grandmother, aunt, and cousin who showed her that it takes "a whole village" to raise a child. Spiritually enlightening, honest and comical, this account is one meant to inspire and encourage individuals from all walks of life to believe that all things happen in time through prayer. Further, it strives to give hope to those who have not yet begun having the family that God intended for everyone. "It is Our Time to Be Blessed as whole and healthy families, able to endure life's tragedies and remain strong nurturing units of love," the author remarks.
Download or read book Remembering God and Reminding Others written by Jean Melson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book started as letters to an unknown friend. I was told she needed encouragement. Her life was filled with so much unhappiness she would sometimes just forget the joy and peace that was available to her. So, I wrote letters to her, to remind her of God’s power, love and peace. Now these letters have been turned into a book to help you remember. Stroll with me down memory lane, walk with me through God’s creation and open His word with me and let’s explore ways in which we can remember God.
Download or read book Heaven Scent written by Dr. J. Franklin Tillery and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain travels through family lines Until someone is ready to heal it in themselves. By going through the agony of healing You no longer pass the poison chalice Onto the generations that follow. It is important and sacred work. Author Unknown
Download or read book We Celebrate Our Mother and Father written by Joseph Patrick Meissner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Honor thy father and thy mother.” This is the fourth commandment from the ten God gave us through Moses in the Bible. This fourth follows the initial three signifying our duties to the Supreme Being. After God, our next obligation is to our parents. This shows the importance of parents. Notice the word is “honor.” It does not say “obey”; but “honor” certainly includes “obedience.” Furthermore, this commandment does not end when we each reach maturity. The commandment of honor signifies we must respect our parents all their lives. Our mother was Norah Attracta Cusack. Our father was Joseph Charles Meissner. By the usual social standards, they were very ordinary people on this planet. However, they possessed their own wonderful beauty and intelligence. They were most extraordinary parents who welcomed us to life, took care of our needs, ensured we received great educations, and devoted their lives unselfishly to us for decades. But they gave us much more than our mere bodies. They gave us faith, hope, and love during their long lives. They showed us how to live as God urges us to live. They continuously nourished us spiritually from our mother’s nightly “demands” to kneel in the living room praying the rosary to our Blessed Virgin to our father who drove us even in the blinding snow, freezing cold, and storms to church every week, ensuring we arrived on time. Here are words from my brother Robert for our parents: “As for our son, Scott, [who suffering from severe PTSD, ended his life], I agree he is somewhere around and still present in the universe. So are our mom and dad. I think after we die, we will learn how all this is done—you know Mom and Dad are the greatest proof of God, religion, and an afterlife. They were so good and worked tirelessly for our family. If you asked them about religion, the church, and faith, they might say it really doesn’t matter, except you treat your fellow human beings with dignity and acknowledge God as Father. The rest of the argument really doesn’t mean that much.” So to Mom and Dad, we celebrate your lives and say an enormous thank-you.
Download or read book The Sweet Smell of Home written by Leonard F. Chana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-taught artist in several mediums who became known for stippling, Leonard Chana captured the essence of the Tohono O’odham people. He incorporated subtle details of O’odham life into his art, and his images evoke the smells, sounds, textures, and tastes of the Sonoran desert—all the while depicting the values of his people. He began his career by creating cards and soon was lending his art to posters and logos for many community-based Native organizations. Winning recognition from these groups, his work was soon actively sought by them. Chana’s work also appears on the covers and as interior art in a number of books on southwestern and American Indian topics. The Sweet Smell of Home is an autobiographical work, written in Chana’s own voice that unfolds through oral history interviews with anthropologist Susan Lobo. Chana imparts the story of his upbringing and starting down the path toward a career as an artist. Balancing humor with a keen eye for cultural detail, he tells us about life both on and off the reservation. Eighty pieces of art—26 in color—grace the text, and Chana explains both the impetus for and the evolution of each piece. Leonard Chana was a people’s artist who celebrated the extraordinary heroism of common people’s lives. The Sweet Smell of Home now celebrates this unique artist whose words and art illuminate not only his own remarkable life, but also the land and lives of the Tohono O’odham people
Download or read book Scent of Love written by Sophia Knightly and published by Victoria Koch. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes opposites attract in the most delicious ways... All Gabe Falcon wants is to make his trendy Naples, FL restaurant a success. Until he meets his new neighbor, that is. The sweet and sexy perfumer challenges and entices him in equal measure from the start. Too bad the only thing she seems to want from him is his absence. Lily Marlowe doesn't have time for the annoyingly hot alpha next door, especially when the spicy aromas of Gabe's dishes overpower her fragrances and run off her customers. If she wants her beloved business to be the hit of the upcoming Winter Fest, she'll need to convince Gabe to move his food truck to another park. The fact that he's the only man to ever make her regret all the barriers she's built around her heart? Irrelevant. This is business. But Gabe isn't about to give up on Lily without a fight, and when he makes her an offer she can't refuse, she quickly finds her ordered life thrown into a sensual tailspin. Torn between business and desire, can Lily learn to trust her senses--and Gabe? Or will their happily ever after be snuffed out before it can even begin? FALCONS IN LOVE – Each book is a standalone. Scent of Love - Gabe and Lily The Holiday Sweet Spot - Jake and Pilar
Download or read book Try to Remember Never Forget written by Sandra Scheller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax. She is standing next to the dress that my Grandmother wore during the time she was in Oederan. She never took it off and every week she would bend over and the Nazis painted an X and stripe down her backside. The dress was initially given to her in Auschwitz. Ruth Goldschmiedova Saxs life story begins in Moravia in 1928, where she lived comfortably as an only child with her parents. At the age of eleven the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia and life changed for everyone. By 1941, the family found themselves getting off a transport train in Theresienstadt, where Ruth was forced to grow up quickly. She was shaved to prevent lice infestation, wrapped her feet in paper to keep them warm in the winter, and witnessed the deaths of many. Separated from her father, she survived awful circumstances, only to be sent to Auschwitz in 1944, where she faced Dr. Mengele half a dozen times. Finally, with G-ds help and liberation, she was reunited in 1945 with her mother and father, a miracle within itself. Ruth later emigrated to America where she married Kurt Sax, whom she had met at age seven. This memoir narrates the dramatic life circumstances that led her from her birthplace in central Czechoslovakia, to three concentration camps, and finally to her home in America. Future plans are to find a museum for this dress so that it can be displayed accordingly for all to see and remind us to NEVER FORGET.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrating Mothers Daughters written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of stories will touch the reader's soul with the funny moments and sentimental times shared by mothers and daughters. Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter's Soul II includes stories about young women leaving home for the first time to attend college, how mothers and daughters at odds with each other learn to forgive and forget, and how one daughter comes to terms with saying goodbye. The relationship a mother and daughter shares is at times difficult, but in the end, it can be one of the most precious.
Download or read book From Bethlehem to the United States written by Adnan A. Musallam, Ph.D. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of the autobiography of Adnan A. Musallam, PhD, transcends his birth and upbringing in a Christian Palestinian Arab family in Bethlehem, the Holy Land, and his traumatic childhood and goes beyond that into another very different culture in America at an early age, where he lived as an exchange student with five Rotary families while attending Wabash High School in Wabash, Indiana, from 1962 to 1963. It was a continuous adjustment as he was moving from one very kind family to another. The high school diploma he got in June 1963 paved the way for his BA (1967), MA (1970), at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and Ph.D. (1983) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Michigan. But the ups and downs of life in Indiana and Michigan led to a divorce and led him to enlist in the United States Navy in January 1975. At the end of active duty in May 1977, he was awarded a United States Navy Achievement Medal; and he was enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Eventually, he joined the teaching staff at Bethlehem University in the Holy Land beginning in September 1981, and he taught history at the Tour Guide Program at Bethlehem Bible College. Adnan is married to Salwa Sayeh, who both have five daughters and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Appendix A and appendix B revolve around Adnan's stay in Wabash, while appendix C focuses on his membership in the Delta Chi fraternity at Indiana University, and appendix D deals with Adnan's career and thought. It is clear from the content of Adnan's autobiography that his life and thought are closely intertwined with the Palestinian Israeli conflict, 1948-present. 44
Download or read book Best Food Writing 2014 written by Holly Hughes and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fourteen years, Best Food Writing has served up the creme de la creme of the year's food writing. The 2014 edition once again offers the tastiest prose of the year, from a range of voices: food writing stars, James Beard Award winners, writer-chefs, bestselling authors, and up-and-coming bloggers alike. With new sections devoted to "A Table for Everyone" and "Back to Basics," you'll find a topic and a flavor for every appetite—the cutting-edge, the thoughtful, the provocative, and the hilarious—a smorgasbord of treats for the foodie in all of us. Contributors include: Elissa Altman, Dan Barber, Monica Bhide, Sara Bir, John Birdsall, Jane Black, Frank Bruni, Albert Burneko, Tom Carson, Brent Cunningham, John T. Edge, Barry Estabrook, Amy Gentry, Adam Gopnik, Matt Goulding, John Gravois, Alex Halberstadt, Sarah Henry, Jack Hitt, Steve Hoffman, Ann Hood, Silas House, Rowan Jacobsen, John Kessler, Kate Krader, Francis Lam, David Leite, Irvin Lin, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Daniella Martin, Dave Mondy, Erin Byers Murray, Rick Nichols, Kim O'Donnel, Josh Ozersky, Kevin Pang, Ben Paynter, Michael Procopio, Jay Rayner, Besha Rodell, Anna Roth, Adam Sachs, Eli Saslow, David Sax, Oliver Strand, Laura Taxel, JT Torres, Molly Watson, Joe Yonan, Eagranie Yuh
Download or read book Come One Come All written by Lee Svitak Dean and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided by the ingredients and distinct seasons of the Midwest, an award-winning writer and national food authority provides 32 seasonal menus and more than 150 recipes for just about any party or occasion, in her debut book.
Download or read book A Memory to Die For written by Debra M. Crowe and published by Debra M Crowe. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story centers on a recently divorced criminal attorney named Debra Holster. Debra relocated back to the city of New Orleans after she discovered her husband, Desmond, was having an affair with a co-worker. Debra decided to leave Desmond and moved in with her best friend, Rocky, just until the couple could dissolve the marriage, and Debra would be allowed to move back in to their home. Shortly after Debra moved in with her friend someone broke into their lakefront home and brutally attacked Rocky in her upstairs bedroom. Debra tried to rescue her friend after hearing her scream out in pain. She found her friend bleeding to death from stab wounds. Debra also became a victim of the intrusion that night at Rocky’s home, but unlike Rocky, Debra survived. She lived only by the grace of God and was left in a deep coma for six months. Debra lost her memory of what happened on that horrible night. She blocked from her mind the entire night. She finally awoke from a coma, remembering nothing. But the killer thought Debra did remember. Who could have committed such a horrible crime?
Download or read book Dear Mom written by Dee Dee Rapp and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scent written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty in a bottle. Earth’s most captivating scent. Danger hidden in petals of pink. From the corporate boardroom to the New Guinea rainforest, the hunt is on to capture “the very breath of beauty” and secure the success of struggling perfumers Cassie and Nick Dixon. When the fragrance “Cassandra” is at last unveiled, the public goes wild, and the Dixons are crowned the queen and king of fashion aroma. Then the unthinkable happens. “Cassandra” has a dark side. And it’s about to wreak deadly havoc … havoc mirrored in the emptiness of Cassie’s soul. As a war rages in her heart, Cassie desperately struggles to regain her spiritual footing. But will her desire for success cost her and Nick everything they have worked so hard to accomplish? The deadly qualities of beauty come to life and the stakes couldn’t be higher in this riveting new thriller. Scent will overwhelm the senses.
Download or read book kate spade new york celebrate that written by kate spade new york and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and photos that will inspire you to celebrate life’s memorable moments the newest book in the bestselling kate spade new library, celebrate that! occasions, picks up where their new york times bestselling hosting guide, all in good taste, left off. kate spade believes that life is a series of celebrations, from extra small to extra large—from acing a hard conversation at work to birthdays, trips with the girls, mother’s day, new jobs, and beyond. their motto: a good occasion is a good excuse, and the best time to celebrate is whenever you can. with wit and insight, heart and humor, this essential guide to occasions shines a unique spotlight on celebrating yourself as well as those you love. it weaves together personal memories, how tos, planners, gifting guides, checklists, recipes and cultural vignettes to inspire and guide you through celebrating it all.
Download or read book We Have the Technology written by Kara Platoni and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist investigates how scientists and citizens around the world are re-tooling our senses-and what their discoveries are teaching us about the nature and future of human perception How do we know what's real? That's not a trick question: sensory science is increasingly finding that we don't perceive reality: we create it through perception. In We Have the Technology, science writer Kara Platoni guides us through the latest developments in the science of sensory perception. We Have the Technology introduces us to researchers who are changing the way we experience the world, whether creating scents that stimulate the memories of Alzheimer's patients, constructing virtual limbs that approximate a sense of touch, or building augmented reality labs that prepare soldiers for the battlefield. These diverse investigations not only explain previously elusive aspects of human experience, but offer tantalizing glimpses into a future when we can expand, control, and enhance our senses as never before. A fascinating tour of human capability and scientific ingenuity, We Have the Technology offers essential insights into the nature and possibilities of human experience.
