Download or read book Lament Love and Laughter written by Barbara Buntin Bosarge and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lament, Love and Laughter equals life or a large portion of it. The reader sees glimpses of the author’s heart, while her soul is laid bare in a fervent prayer for her son, just days before he takes his life. From cherished childhood memories spent with loving grandparents, to painful memories of an abusive father, the author shares much of herself. Barbara’s love for her children and grandchildren is evident throughout, and the poem, “Worn-out Work Boots” reveals her love for her husband of 67 years. The author’s poetry, essays, and reminiscences are examples of humor and pathos, truth and character, and is a view of her outlook on life.
Download or read book Love Laughter and Lament written by Richard C. Shupp (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lament written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a music prodigy, who’s about to find out she can see faeries. Two mysterious (and cute) guys enter her life. Trouble is, Luke is a soulless faerie assassin and Aodhan is a dark faerie soldier. Their orders from the Faerie Queen? Kill Deirdre.
Download or read book A Farewell to Mars written by Brian Zahnd and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know Jesus the Savior, but have we met Jesus, Prince of Peace? When did we accept vengeance as an acceptable part of the Christian life? How did violence and power seep into our understanding of faith and grace? For those troubled by this trend toward the sword, perhaps there is a better way. What if the message of Jesus differs radically differs from the drumbeats of war we hear all around us? Using his own journey from war crier to peacemaker and his in-depth study of peace in the scriptures, author and pastor Brian Zahnd reintroduces us to the gospel of Peace.
Download or read book Love and Lament written by John Milliken Thompson and published by Other Press (NY). This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and the Great War, Love and Lament chronicles the hardships and misfortunes of the Hartsoe family. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year that the first railroad arrived in their county. As she matures, against the backdrop of Reconstruction and rapid industrialisation, she must learn to deal with the deaths of her mother and siblings, a deaf and damaged older brother, and her father's growing insanity and rejection of God.
Download or read book Position Pieces for Cello written by Rick Mooney and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called "Target Practice," "Geography Quiz," and "Names and Numbers." Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how to find the hand positions and, once there, which notes are possible to play. Using these pieces (with names like "I Was a Teenage Monster," "The Irish Tenor," and "I've Got the Blues, Baby"), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!
Download or read book Stories of Laughter and Lament written by John Bryson and published by Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Laughter and Lament, set among the filthy rich and the dirt poor, seven stories first selected and published by Penguin Books. Widows Charles Rand fell off his yacht, somewhere in the middle of the bay, on one of the first pale blue evenings of autumn. Later, the Coroner would be unable to fix that time more precisely than between six and ten o'clock. Newspapers, reporting that he had sailed off without crew, used terms which pictured Charles as a hardy loner. Anyone who knew him smiled at this. So begins Widows, with the loss of the wealthy husband whom Dorothy Laird had caught, by playing her cards faultlessly, for marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth, her one child. Elizabeth is Dorothy's straight flush. This is the world of the Lairds. Children Aren't Supposed to be Here at All Troilus and Cassandra spend their days at a private school, are then alone until their parents come home from the office. The best view in Sydney, panorama wall to wall, ten thousand dollars a foot. All that view, Troilus said, locks us in. This is the world of Troilus and Cassandra. Troilus begins to spend more time alone in his room. Troilus has secreted an illegal kitten. The Routine An airplane journey, in reverie the narrator reprises scenes from the recent breaking up with his lover. His defence is hard-bitten cynicism. His neighbour in the next seat is spectacularly disabled. He had a strangely taut face, of indeterminate age. Either thirty-five or very old, pallid cleft chin and lumpy nose. Describe it with artistic integrity: Bent as a 1930 Labour politician's Shapeless as a football after a wet game Hit by a Bondi taxi, the trams were on strike He is the other guy. There. But his shapeless neighbour displays a quiet brilliance with jokes, and likes to play the comedian, as a gift to his companion. Each is uniquely disabled, so a strong current of love begins between them. This is the world of the tragic human comedy. Pedigrees This is a world of croquet on the lawn, the breeding of horses for dressage, of dogs for the shows, and very little sanity. It does not seem to be fear of falling which has made her unable, by herself, to move, although she is clinging to the bole of a white gum which overhangs the cliff. She is intent only on a bundle lying on the rocks fifty feet below her. It is the sodden and dislocated body of her daughter's rag doll Cindy. It is to take psychiatrists three months of gentle prying to release from Elinor's mind the belief over which it has closed. This belief is that she has thrown her own child over a cliff. Inventory A son of English Old Money, whose talents so far have won him note as a failure, expects Christmas dinner in Kent to win him derision from his father in front of his entire family. But Sir George did not wait for Henry Edward Charles to recount, over the remains of the goose, the imminent failure of his second marriage, six years old in January; or the collapse of his racing stable, a draining of the finest blood ever exported from Ireland and New Zealand; or the sale of the few remaining blue-chip investments to pay his slandering creditors so he could remain in his club. Ticket for Charity When Charity Lord fell pregnant she told each of the six boys who were that month's quick loving, in turn, as they stumbled from the hotel. Slow Billy, the dry-country farmer, became the boy who would marry her. He would also become the boy whose life is transformed by her fier.
Download or read book The Songbook of Benny Lament written by Amy Harmon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piano man in 1960s New York keeps to himself and away from his father's mob ties until his hit collaboration with Esther Mine thrusts him into a national spotlight that also stirs up issues with his father's associates.
Download or read book The Louder Song written by Aubrey Sampson and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lament helps us hear God’s louder song. When you’re in the midst of suffering, you want answers for the unanswerable, resolutions to the unresolvable. You want to tie up pain in a pretty little package and hide it under the bed, taking it out only when you feel strong enough to face it. But grief won’t be contained. Grief disobeys. Grief explodes. In one breath, you may be able to say that God’s got this and all will be well. In the next, you might descend into fatalism. No pretending. Here, you are raw before God, an open wound. There is a pathway through this suffering. It’s not easy, but God will use it to lead you toward healing. This path is called lament. Lament leads us between the Already and the Not Yet. Lament minds the gap between current hopelessness and coming hope. Lament anticipates new creation but also acknowledges the painful reality of now. Lament recognizes the existence of evil and suffering—without any sugarcoating—while simultaneously declaring that suffering will not have the final say. In the midst of your darkest times, you will discover that lament leads you back to a place of hope—not because lamenting does anything magical, but because God sings a louder song than suffering ever could, a song of renewal and restoration.
Download or read book Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members. With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children's books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.
Download or read book The Great Lamentation written by Martin Waldenvik and published by Martin Waldenvik. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of fiction is not for everyone. It is a wordy book, it contains concepts of philosophy and psychology, it is a very introspective and reasoning book, and the reasoning circles around despair, anxiety, loneliness, impossible love, and sin. It is not a book just to read through. Furthermore, it will not depict their every day life, only moments; because of the clear theme of the book: Only the moments were perfect In itself it is a description of sinful people, that fails in everything they do, or try to accomplish, so driven by their dreams, longings, and selfishness, like many of us are. And I have tried to down tone their sins not their sinfulness. This is a book about dreams, when dreams become more important than love. This is the cause of the lamentation, the cause of the missing, the cause of the sadness. It is also a book of a love that never was meant to be. We seldom know that beforehand, even if he should have known. Where one person's dreams clashes against the other's, making love impossible. It is also a book that tries through the format of the novel to convey how a flawed theology and lack of true biblical understanding can lead people on the wrong way, unto destruction, unto despair, unto sin. These four people, the protagonists, they symbolize the nominal Christian, the world, the contemporary Christianity and a loving mother figure. It is a book that tries to convey the true biblical Gospel in the end in a form of a short commentary: How God delivers his people, and that he is the only one that is truly able to do that through the sacrifice of his only-begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the world as a substitute. God is able to save, to justify, to impute Christ's righteousness unto us, and to transform us after his eternal purpose giving us his Holy Spirit whom will lead us unto our Lord and God, and make us walk in those good works, which God from eternity have ordained that we should walk in. God is able, and he is worthy of our worship.
Download or read book Laughter and Lament written by Steve Brown and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we do with the sadness and the joy that living in a broken world brings to our lives? Most try to avoid the tears and focus on finding happiness. Denial might help to alleviate pain, but eventually lament must be faced and expressed. Steve Brown shows that learning to lament honestly to God is the surprising path to learning about real joy.
Download or read book Life Love Lust Laughter written by Paul Bonham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, love, lust and laughter ... a multi-course banquet of tasty, exquisite morsels, a rich cocktail of life's experiences ... serious, spiritual, sensitive, sexual, surprising, shocking and funny ... poetry, verse, stories of birth, death, the undead, love, sex, gay love, humour, happiness, Satan, God, dreams, despair, the code of life, politics, prostitutes, the universe, Don Quixote, food, wine, and music.
Download or read book Greek Laughter and Tears written by Margaret Alexiou and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditionsWhat makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music?Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.Key featuresIncludes an international cast of 25 distinguished contributors Prominence is given to performative arts and to interactions with other cultures Transitions from Late Antiquity to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the Renaissance, form focal points from which contributors look backwards, forwards and sidewaysHighlights the variety, audacity and quality of the finest Byzantine works and the extent to which they anticipated the renaissance
Download or read book Quartet written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loneliness Lament written by Patricia J. Huntington and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author poses that loneliness does not only consist of the heartfelt absences of a friend, partner, spouse, or child, but rather stems from a radical breach in one's life journey. She develops a philosophy of receptivity and a portrait of redemptive suffering. By fully exploring notions of pain, she also examines how the relation between the heart's musical attunement and meaning-filled life passages can lead one to a more spiritual philosophy and a more independent life.
Download or read book Mr Punch s Book of Love Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony is a humorous and witty book by various authors. Excerpt: "My rushlight, when first kindled, Twelve inches long wast thou; And I behold thee dwindled To one, my candle, now! How brief thy span, contrasted With rushlight's average life! A happier dip had lasted A week a happier wife. Where is my husband got to? Oh say, expiring light! A man ought really not to Stay out so every night."
