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Book From Sissy Maid to Pretty Flight Attendant

Download or read book From Sissy Maid to Pretty Flight Attendant written by Anna Kamari and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake has always been obsessed with sissy maids, but after seeing a beautiful flight attendant at the airport he decides to follow her and develops a new obsession with being an air hostess. He knows it's wrong to follow her but he's driven by deep envy of her stunning beauty and pretty uniform. She is everything he wants to be.After hatching a plan to meet her in real life, Jake discovers that the innocent young girl he idolizes is not so innocent and discovers a seedy underworld where pretty flight attendants double up as high class hookers. When the boss of the airline looks to hire his first transgender girl, Jake gets an opportunity to become both a pretty flight attendant and a stunning she male escort.Attention: this is classic transgender erotica...sissy maids and female domination are not part of the story - simply the lifestyle Jake leaves as soon as the book begins. This novel features fantasies of she-male embodiment, girl on girl action and sissies servicing real men.

Book Sissy Maid Bundle 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elle Mesen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-12-01
  • ISBN : 9781519064936
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Sissy Maid Bundle 2 written by Elle Mesen and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: From Sissy Maid to Pretty Flight AttendantJake has always been obsessed with sissy maids, but after seeing a beautiful flight attendant at the airport he decides to follow her and develops a new obsession with being an air hostess. He knows it's wrong to follow her but he's driven by deep envy of her stunning beauty and pretty uniform. She is everything he wants to be.After hatching a plan to meet her in real life, Jake discovers that the innocent young girl he idolizes is not so innocent and discovers a seedy underworld where pretty flight attendants double up as high class hookers. When the boss of the airline looks to hire his first transgender girl, Jake gets an opportunity to become both a pretty flight attendant and a stunning she male escort.Book 2 : Sissy Maid to Satin-clad WaitressMiriam's best friend has a catering company which is famous for pretty waitresses who dress as traditional French serving girls. One Saturday she's a waitress short and asks Miriam if she can fill in. She can't...but says that her boyfriend can. Despite his protestations Miriam insists, and the stage is set for Patrick's complete feminization as a satin-clad waitress. Forced to serve at a reunion dinner, he might end up serving the gentleman diners in ways he didn't expect.What Patrick doesn't know, though, is that this is all part of a deeper plan of revenge orchestrated by world famous sissy hunter, Elle Mesen. Poor Patrick (or maybe 'lucky Patrick' depending on your sissy desires) is on a path to being ruthlessly cuckolded, reconditioned and hired out as a sissy maid to a strong master.Book 3: Sissy Maid - Pornstar WifeWould you tell your best friend if you saw his fianc�e in a porno film some years before he met her? That is the dilemma that underpins this gripping tale of female domination, slurpy cuckolding and a hopeless husband forced to become his wife's sissy maid.In this case, Mickey decides not to tell his best friend what he knows about the fianc�e, meaning Victor marries a girl with one hell of a past. Not only that, but when Victor loses his job, Bailey decides to revive her career in adult movies telling her husband that he can't complain. Why? Because he's always fantasizing about cuckolding and fem dom in their dirty talk. This makes him the perfect sissy husband and sissy maid.Book 4: Sissy Husband: The Apocalypse of your MasculinityShe's onto you! Your other half has just read my article in Cosmo "How to tell if your man is a sissy", and now she's going to follow my advice and conduct a sissy identification test. With the aid of some hidden cameras and pretty satin lingerie, you're going to take the bait and reveal to her the sissy you are. If you are a sissy husband or boyfriend you should be afraid...very afraid!In this book I explain to you blow by blow what's going to happen in your house when she finds out what a pathetic little sissy you are. Far from kicking you out, she's going to bind you to her forever in service as a sissy cuckold maid. As she uses the experience to make a clean break and starts dating a constant stream of men, you will have to clean up their constant stream of creamy white goo. Just make sure it doesn't spill onto your frilly apron!

Book The Managed Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012-03-31
  • ISBN : 0520951859
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Managed Heart written by Arlie Russell Hochschild and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply from the waist, but from the heart. But what occurs when emotion work, feeling rules, and the gift of exchange are introduced into the public world of work? In search of the answer, Arlie Russell Hochschild closely examines two groups of public-contact workers: flight attendants and bill collectors. The flight attendant’s job is to deliver a service and create further demand for it, to enhance the status of the customer and be "nicer than natural." The bill collector’s job is to collect on the service, and if necessary, to deflate the status of the customer by being "nastier than natural." Between these extremes, roughly one-third of American men and one-half of American women hold jobs that call for substantial emotional labor. In many of these jobs, they are trained to accept feeling rules and techniques of emotion management that serve the company’s commercial purpose. Just as we have seldom recognized or understood emotional labor, we have not appreciated its cost to those who do it for a living. Like a physical laborer who becomes estranged from what he or she makes, an emotional laborer, such as a flight attendant, can become estranged not only from her own expressions of feeling (her smile is not "her" smile), but also from what she actually feels (her managed friendliness). This estrangement, though a valuable defense against stress, is also an important occupational hazard, because it is through our feelings that we are connected with those around us. On the basis of this book, Hochschild was featured in Key Sociological Thinkers, edited by Rob Stones. This book was also the winner of the Charles Cooley Award in 1983, awarded by the American Sociological Association and received an honorable mention for the C. Wright Mills Award.

Book Maid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ryo Kamiya
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781495254888
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Maid written by Ryo Kamiya and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maid: The Role-Playing Game is a comedic take on a uniquely Japanese cultural icon: The fetishized modern maid. Injecting the concept of Maid with 50ccs of anime and comedy, the players take on the roles of maids, serving the master (played by the GM). Sheets are left unfolded and mantelpieces undusted when giant robots crash through the mansion, ninjas attack and kidnap the young master, and a demonic pit to Hell opens up in the pantry... and all before teatime! Play in the modern comedy setting, or mix it up with 9 additional settings including Victorian era, old Edo period, fantasy and post-apocalypse; and 6 genres including romance, horror, and action. Due to the rules system and random events that form the backbone of the Maid RPG, the game practically runs itself: Go from opening the book to playing a game with friends within just minutes! Three game styles in one: The traditional scenario-type; the random event-driven type; and the "favor race," a race to the master's heart! Make characters and start playing the game within minutes of opening the book. Everything about the game gears it for Fast Play, Now. Optional character types including player-character masters and butlers, and optional rules for seduction and romantic tragedy. 11 complete adventure scenarios. 3 complete "replays," actual play scenarios in screenplay format. Great for learning the feel of the game. The first ever Japanese tabletop role-playing game to be released in English! ...which, when you think about it, totally makes sense in a weird sort of way. Hundreds of optional items, costumes, genre and setting events, all presented in a way to easily bring them into the game! Combines the original Japanese core book and two supplements into one huge, complete edition of the game in English. A $75 value!

Book  Surely You re Joking  Mr  Feynman    Adventures of a Curious Character

Download or read book Surely You re Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character written by Richard P. Feynman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets—and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature. In his stories, Feynman’s life shines through in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah. Included for this edition is a new introduction by Bill Gates.

Book Living with Crossdressing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Savannah Hauk
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-09
  • ISBN : 9780991470235
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Living with Crossdressing written by Savannah Hauk and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the minds of non-transitioning crossdressers and the women who love them

Book To Wed an Heiress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Ranney
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 0062841076
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book To Wed an Heiress written by Karen Ranney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellion drove Mercy Rutherford to Scotland to escape the possessive grip of her fiancé. But it’s fate that lands her in the crumbling highlands castle of Lennox Caitheart. A dreamer with visions of inventing airships, he’s most certainly mad. Handsome beyond words, he’s also causing an irresistible flutter in her stomach beyond reason. When Gregory arrives to see their arranged marriage to its bitter end, Mercy desperately turns to Lennox with an offer of her fortune—and her hand in marriage. The Earl of Morton has a reputation for being a daredevil eccentric, but even he is hesitant to engage in such a rash proposition—no matter how utterly beguiled he is by the wildly independent American heiress. And yet, with so much at stake, how can he possibly say no? But when their unconventional union grows into a passionate and inseparable love, more than Gregory’s obsession threatens them. Now, Lennox and Mercy will have to risk more than their hearts to save it.

Book Bee and Butterfly

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  • Author : Lucy Foster Madison
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-08-15
  • ISBN : 3752438770
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Bee and Butterfly written by Lucy Foster Madison and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Bee and Butterfly by Lucy Foster Madison

Book Anne of Windy Poplars

Download or read book Anne of Windy Poplars written by L. M. Montgomery and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming novel is the fourth book in the Anne of Green Gables series. 22 years old and away from home, the much-loved Anne Shirley has to find her own way in the world once more as she begins a new job in Windy Poplars. Beginning a new phase of her life, Anne has finally left the Cuthbert’s farm. Filled with romance and charming moral tales, the story is mostly told through the letters that Anne exchanges with her fiancé, Gilbert Blythe. The couple try to maintain their relationship while Gilbert begins medical school and Anne embarks on a new path as the principal of Summerside High School in Windy Poplars. Anne lodges in the cosy tower room of an old house, Windy Willows, belonging to Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty. Soon she makes fast friends with the women and their boisterous housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. But despite these new friends, Anne struggles to find her feet in the town. The ‘royal family’ of Summerside, the Pringles, keep a watchful eye on the new principal and make it very clear that she's not their first choice for the job. Will Anne be able to win the Pringles over? Can she and Gilbert keep their spark alive? Read & Co. Children’s has proudly republished this beautiful edition of Anne of Windy Poplars, now featuring an introductory author biography. This classic novel is not to be missed by lovers of Anne of Green Gables and those who wish to revisit their childhood as Anne commences the next stage of her life.

Book One of Ours

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willa Cather
  • Publisher : IndyPublish.com
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book One of Ours written by Willa Cather and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive

Book The Emperor of All Maladies

Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Book How Stephen Became Stephanie and Other Transgender Tales

Download or read book How Stephen Became Stephanie and Other Transgender Tales written by Kate Lesley and published by eBooks-UK. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven stories on themes of male to female transgenderism - tales of sex change, forced feminization, sissy schools, maid training, petticoat punishment and cross-dressing. 'I was Aunt Mary's Sissy' - An eccentric aunt who dislikes boys takes her nephew in hand, and soon has the niece she desires.... 'I Turned my Husband into a Girl ' - Classic tale from the point of view of the wife, who is sure that things will work out better for both of them if John is turned into Joanne.....many surprises, and a breathtaking ending. 'A Walk on the Wild Side' - Experience a taste of transgender real-life - eavesdrop on the conversation of two trans girls on the streets of Manchester's Gay Village in the 1990s. 'The Lady of the Lake' - Dark Ages fantasy inspired by the 'Iron John' story, a fairy tale first set down by the Brothers Grimm. Explores the theme of recovering lost parts of ourselves. 'How Stephen became Stephanie' - Stephen's landlady conspires with his personnel manager at work to change him into a supermarket check-out girl and part-time maid. 'New Girl on the Ward' - Nicholas has always had a 'thing' about nurses - but he never dreams that one day he will be wearing that blue uniform himself. The story of a young man's transformation into a female nurse. 'Mother's New Daughter' - A mother begins her plan to feminise her son and change him into the daughter she has always wanted. 'Virtual Reality Woman' - By the early years of the new Millennium there is an unemployed male underclass. The feminist Dr. Hannah Klonek, suggests a solution - to make boys much more like girls. A young male postgraduate is invited to wear the prototype Total Virtual Reality suit and try out the program. And so Andy becomes Laura. A surprise awaits Laura when she discovers what has been done to her real body.... Jackie and Melanie Take Charge - Kevin can't believe his luck when two attractive, sophisticated women pick him up and take him back to their hotel room in Bangkok. But Kevin has fallen into a complicated web of intrigue woven by two formidable female academics. Their research takes on a practical turn when they inveigle Kevin into dressing as a girl, and slowly Kevin is transformed completely into an attractive blonde. School for Sissies - Francois is left fatherless and his mother Lydia is appointed to a teaching job at a girls' preparatory school. Having already taken pleasure in dressing her son as a girl while he was a toddler, she decides he is to be enrolled at the school as a girl. Francoise settles into the life of a girl, and spends five happy years at St. Saviours. When Francoise is eleven years old, her mother begins to think about how Francoise's education as a girl can be continued. Lydia resolves to start her own private high school for girls, with the financial backing of wealthy friends. Lydia's 'special' educational methods of corset training, sissification and petticoat punishment are introduced. Boys who resist sissification are put into tight corsets and undergo complete petticoat punishment. The new 'girls' are started on 'vitamin' pills which are in fact female hormones. At the age of 14 or 15, a regimen of extra female hormones and anti-androgen tablets is added. By the time they are in the Sixth Form; most Stage Four transitioning girls are practically indistinguishable from their genetically female friends. What happens at Stage Five? - Well, you will need to read the story to find out... Deborah's Decision - Deborah has to choose between a rich and successful businessman and a rather feminine Australian boy whom she meets at work. When she has a night out at a nightclub in London, Deborah encounters a beautiful young woman who turns out to be Tim, the young Australian. Who will Deborah choose - the rich businessman or the Australian girly-boy?

Book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Download or read book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.

Book Crash Diet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jo-Anne Wiley
  • Publisher : Pink Flamingo Media
  • Release : 2021-01-01
  • ISBN : 1950910172
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Crash Diet written by Jo-Anne Wiley and published by Pink Flamingo Media. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome aboard the Bikini-Bus and join members of the Women's Olympic Beach Volleyball Team on a flight straight into icy hell. Feel the panic rise in your throat as your plane is hurled toward a remote mountainside and, if you live, stand with Captain Irene Ross as she fights for your survival against the cold, hunger – and the men. Led by a photographer from a scab magazine, the male survivors close ranks to defy Irene's authority. They want her girls: Eight leggy flight-attendants, clad in bikinis, and handpicked for their challenging looks. Captain Ross fights valiantly but the men have the gun.

Book Wicked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Maguire
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061792942
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Wicked written by Gregory Maguire and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

Book Map of You

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophie Williams
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-12-07
  • ISBN : 9781800660151
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Map of You written by Sophie Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely activity book in which to explore ideas of mindfulness and self-acceptance. The journey of self-discovery starts right here! Aimed at a middle-grade audience, this delightful activity book asks young readers to explore the landscape of their own psyche. They are invited to visit their mountains of strength and wetlands of weaknesses. to confront their 'forests of fears', and to take comfort in their 'islands of interests'. Personality quizzes, coloring in, drawing and designing all feature. Self-examination has never been more enjoyable! At a time when the mental health of young people is a point of concern, this activity book offers a much-needed opening to ideas of self-awareness, empathy, well-being and mindfulness, with a refreshing optimism and lightness of touch.