Download or read book Left Turn life unimagined written by Jen Eikenhorst and published by Jennifer Eikenhorst. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenna Anderson, a small town middle school teacher, at thirty-six years old, thought she felt confident in her personhood, motherhood, purpose-hood, and all the other, “hoods.” On an ordinary fall Tuesday, Jenna and her daughters made a left turn home and the unimaginable happened; an accident. Life took a tragic turn for many people when Jenna collided with a motorcyclist. Everything began to unravel and life as she knew it was falling apart, her identity, faith and mental health. She battles the voices of guilt and whispers of shame and countless questions without hope of answers on this side of heaven. Specifically questions like, why did David have to die? Will she be sentenced to prison? Can her marriage survive? How can she forgive herself? This is the raw and transparent journey to find her faith, restore hope, and accept forgiveness. Left Turn is a rare account of traumatic events such as accident with fatality, and how it exposed layers of pain. "Jenna," works through her ptsd, moral injury, and depression.

Download or read book Left Turn Life Unimagined written by Jennifer Eikenhorst and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenna Anderson, a small town middle school teacher, at thirty-six years old, she felt confident in her personhood, motherhood, purpose-hood, and all the other “hoods.” On an ordinary fall Tuesday Jenna and her daughters made a left turn home and the unimaginable happened; an accident. Life took a tragic turn for many people when Jenna collided with a motorcyclist. Everything began to unravel and life as she knew it was falling apart, her identity, faith and mental health. She battles the voices of guilt and whispers of shame and countless questions without hope of answers on this side of heaven. Specifically questions like, why did David have to die? Will she be sentenced to prison? Can her marriage survive? How can she forgive herself? This is the raw and transparent journey to find her faith, restore hope, and accept forgiveness."--

Download or read book Unimagined Gifts written by Charly Heavenrich and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE STORIES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE GOING TO EXTRAORDINARY PLACES. Is it possible to spend time in a natural place like the Grand Canyon and walk away with the gift of a life-changing experience? In Unimagined Gifts, a seasoned Grand Canyon raft guide shares the stories of ordinary people who came to the Grand Canyon for an adventure vacation and found themselves accomplishing extraordinary feats, forever changing their awareness of what is possible. Charly Heavenrich transports you on a Grand Canyon adventure through the eyes of his former passengers, sharing compelling stories of what can happen when one travels to the edge and learns how to go beyond it. Youll meet a nearsighted boy disoriented without his glasses, a middle-aged woman on her first vacation, an English couple out of their element, and an Israeli lawyer on a journey towards self-discovery, among others. Youll be inspired by their attempts to break through self-imposed limitations, drawing strength from one of the most wondrous natural landscapes in the world. The compelling tales in Unimagined Gifts demonstrate that all who travel through the Grand Canyon will come out on the other side having learned more about themselves and their capabilities than they could have imagined.

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Download or read book Passionate Spectator written by Eric Kraft and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of "Inflating a Dog" and "Herb n' Lorna" presents a journey from fiction to truth and back again as he follows the fortunes of a professional memoirist.

Download or read book The Mana of Mass Society written by William Mazzarella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of “mana,” which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between “primitive” ritual and the fascination of mass media. Thinking about mana, Mazzarella shows, means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions: What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that energizes a revolutionary crowd, a consumer public, or an art encounter? At the intersection of anthropology and critical theory, The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect, sovereignty, and emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion, charisma, ideology, and aesthetics.

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Download or read book Magic The Life of Earvin Magic Johnson written by Roland Lazenby and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, from the highly respected, career sportswriter and author of Michael Jordan: The Life. Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy sport of American professional basketball from a second-tier sport with low ratings into the global spotlight—a transformation driven by Magic’s ability to eviscerate opponents with a playing style that featured his grand sense of fun. He was a master entertainer who directed the Los Angeles “Showtime” Lakers to the heights of both glory and epic excess, all of it driven by his mind-blowing no-look passes and personal charm. Then, in 1991, at the height of his charismatic power, Johnson shocked the world with a startling cautionary tale about sexually transmitted disease that pushed public awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Then out came his confession of unprotected sex with hundreds of women each year, followed by his retirement, an attempted return, and a proper farewell on the iconic 1992 Olympic Dream Team. Longtime biographer Roland Lazenby spent years tracking the unlikely ascension of Johnson—an immensely popular public figure who was instantly scandalized but who then turned to his legendary will to rise again as a successful entrepreneur with another level of hard-won success. In Lazenby’s portrayal, Johnson’s tale becomes bigger than that of one man. It is a generational saga spanning parts of three centuries that reveals a great deal, not just about his unique basketball journey but about America itself. Through hundreds of interviews with Johnson’s coaches, representatives past and present, teammates, opponents, friends, and loved ones, as well as key conversations with Johnson himself over the years, Lazenby has produced the first truly definitive study, both dark and light, of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Jr.—the revolutionary player, the icon, the man.

Download or read book Indignation written by Philip Roth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.

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Download or read book A Journey to World Class Team Leadership written by John A. Leffler and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story about building world-class teams and is based on the authors life, work, and leadership experiences over a forty-plus year career in business. Most of those years were spent with IBM and Apple and spanned over six decades of time, from late 1969, until retiring in 2010. The book captures the real life story and experiences of the author from a young boy growing up in rural Minnesota to a business leader with IBM and Apple. He takes the reader through the personal and business challenges he faced as a manager with IBM and Apple and the ten core beliefs and principles of leadership he learned and practiced in building world-class teams.

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Download or read book Rooms written by James L. Rubart and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young software tycoon inherits a coastal Oregon home that is really a physical manifestation of his soul being used by God to heal the man's greatest wounds.