Download or read book Lotus Blossom Unfurling written by Toni Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following WWII, Japan is broken and in ruins, the people are starving. Nobuko Ito, a Japanese-American trapped in Japan by the war, and temporarily denied the right to return to her home in California, decides to remain in Japan after learning both her parents have died. Meanwhile, back in America, Keiko Ugawa and her father return to Portland, Oregon, after their release from Camp Minidoka in Idaho, where they spent three years behind barbed-wire with nearly ten-thousand other Japanese-Americans. Back in Portland, they face suspicion and 'No Japs' signs. In Idaho, Virginia Franconi marries John Sato, and together, with Virginia's brother Marc, turn the old farm into one of the state's biggest and most prosperous. Back in Japan, Nobuko is saddened by her failure to become pregnant. Masato surprises her with tickets to America, where they are to witness the marriage of Nobuko's brother, Mako, to Keiko Ugawa, who had met at Camp Minidoka. LOTUS BLOSSOM UNFURLING fills in the years and unites the families from Morgan's two previous novels, ECHOES FROM A FALLING BRIDGE and HARVEST THE WIND.
Download or read book The Lotus Blossom written by Lila Lee and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Farrell was homesick. She had seen hundreds of examples of ancient architecture, mosques, and Hindu shrines. She was bone-tired and irritable, tired of the culture, the filth and poverty, the red dirt piled about everywhere, the crowds of humanity, and the odor of chapattis being baked over cow dung fires. Truth be said, she was eager to return to the clean, wide-open spaces of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Although her husband Richard had been told that no one could capture the essence of India in the written word, he had notebooks filled with his impressions of the history, the Vedic literature, the agriculture, the hundreds of dialects of the Hindi language, the political turmoil, and the warring religions of the country. How did it happen that a basketball coach and mediocre teacher of history from the Midwest wound up in India after one of the countless famines that had struck the country, this one more severe than others because of the rice crop which failed in Bengal after independence and partition? The United States sent aid to this fledgling democracy, of course. The problem was this: India could not repay its debts except in rupees. What was the United States to do with hundreds of millions of rupees that could only be spent in India, one of the poorest countries on the face of the earth? Senator Fulbright came up with the solution. The United States would send teachers to India to study and spend those rupees there. And so it was that Richard and Louise Farrell and their daughter Kitty went to India to study and to travel in order to learn about one of the oldest cultures on earth.
Download or read book Sitting in the Lotus Blossom written by Diane Goble and published by Diane Goble. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 I had started to write a book about the art of conscious dying but every time I sat down to write, information that had nothing to do with that concept kept coming through. I decided to meditate to try to figure out what was going on. I started seeing strange faces arising out of the darkness and messages, like a moving LED sign displaying a continuous series of symbols that made no sense to me. Then I would stop meditating and start writing information that didn't seem to be coming from my mind. It seemed as though I was stepping down this other information from these unknown beings and translating it into written words. They wouldn't leave me alone to write my book until finally I agreed to write their book first then they would help me with the book I wanted to write. "Sitting in the Lotus Blossom" is the information they asked me to translate into written language and share with the world. It is about the meaning of life, this life and the life beyond, the evolution of consciousness and who we truly are.I asked them who they were and what they looked like, and using my cartoon drawing talent I drew them as I saw them. I know it's a little weird (and this was during the New Age revolution) but every time I go back and read what I transcribed, I'm amazed at the insight they imparted.
Download or read book Lotus Blossom written by George Lancing and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lotus Blossom written by George LANCING (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helping Our Children Grow in Faith written by Robert J. Keeley and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have serious faith questions that require serious answers, answers that adults often find themselves under-prepared to give. But the Christian community has a responsibility to help its children develop a three-dimensional faith--a faith that affects their heads, their hearts, and their spirits. Helping Our Children Grow in Faith is designed for children's ministry and worship leaders, Sunday school teachers, and pastors--as well as parents--who want to nurture the spiritual development of the children in their lives. It shows how to integrate children into congregational worship, how to teach them the Bible but leave room for the mystery of God, and how to distinguish the difference between faith development and moral development.
Download or read book The Lotus Flower Champion written by Pintip Dunn and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No escape. Follow the rules. And don’t count on reality—in this uniquely vibrant romantasy from NYT bestselling author Pintip Dunn and daughter Love Dunn... It looks like paradise...only it’s not. This was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Thailand. One last wish for my dying mama. Instead, we’re stranded on a lush, stunning island with ten strangers—held captive as Thai mythology unfolds around us...and within us. Now we’re being tested. We’re expected to face our greatest fears—and possible deaths—in hopes of awakening some kind of dormant gift...or curse. One by one, we’re transforming, echoing the strange and sometimes wondrous abilities found in Thai folktales. But my mama has only days to live, my papa is missing, and I’m forced to trust a group of strangers...including our evasive, dark-eyed tour guide, who resembles a minor god. Toss me in the ocean and feed me to the naga now. Only I’m no hero. My days are managed by numbers and the compulsions that used to keep me safe. I have to prove how far I can go. To survive. To protect my family. And to find a way off this perilous island where everything is a lie...including reality.
Download or read book The Language of Flowers written by Jane Holloway and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Floral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became increasingly entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, and with herbal folklore. By the early nineteenth century the "Language of Flora" was an elaborately refined system, especially in England and America, where books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers. Transcending the charm of its Victorian predecessors, this anthology creates an extended, updated, and more robust floral anthology for the twenty-first century, presenting poets through the ages from Sappho, Shakespeare, and Shelley to Ted Hughes, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück, and across the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe. Eastern cultures, rich in flower associations, are well represented: Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums and peonies, Zen poems about orchids and lotus flowers, poems about jasmine and marigolds from India, and roses and narcissi from Persia, the Ottoman empire, and the Arabic world. The most timeless human emotions and concepts--love, hope, despair, fidelity, grief, beauty, and mortality--find colorful expression in The Language of Flowers.
Download or read book Unfurl Passion written by Lillie Bates and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POETRY, is like a light in the eyes of a beholder in the hue of colors, shades, tones, and tints. It offers a soft glance as a serenade to perceive thought. Poetry causes a person to move in a circle within his/her soul, to touch love anew, nature alive, life again, and death without fear. Sometimes, the soul wonders into a like magnetic field; for it shows strong waves of amazement even like angels in the spiritual realm. The sky beholds a spectrum rainbow that breaks into its puzzle like nature then, your heart beats with motion. In Unfurl Passion, Lillie inspires and infuses both women and men with provoking thoughts of the soul, while others come to appreciate themselves. Also, it is said her thoughts are only a heartbeat away, fill with inner beauty and are released. The heart speaks as a ruffle drumbeat heard in a low tune, or as a painted Rufus heart that is like a pomegranate. Indeed, it will bring out the unrecognized colorful wonderlands that have not yet been seen. Lillie is being a thinker and a passionate woman. She has a soft and gentle suave voice, which captivates her listeners like music being played by a fiddle, flute, harp and clarinet. She is three dimensions gentle suave voice, which captivates her smooth in her creative performance for her women and men listeners.
Download or read book Qian Qianyi s Reflections on Yellow Mountain written by Stephen McDowall and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain is a close examination of travel writing in seventeenth-century China, presenting an innovative reading of the youji genre. Taking the 'Account of My Travels at Yellow Mountain' by the noted poet, official andliterary historian Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) as his focus, Stephen McDowall departs from traditional readings of youji, by reading the landscape of Qian's essay as the product of a complex representational tradition, rather than as an empirically verifiable space. Drawing from a broad range of materials including personal anecdotes, traditional cosmographical sources, gazetteers, Daoist classics, paintings and woodblock prints, this book explores the fascinating world of late-Ming Jiangnan, highlighting the extent to which this one scholar's depiction of Yellow Mountain is informed, not so much by first-hand observation, as by the layers of meaning left by generations of travelers before him. McDowall includes the first complete English-language translation of Qian Qianyi's account, and presents the first full-length critical study to appear in any language. The ideas explored here make this book essential reading for scholars and students of late imperial Chinese history and literature, and also offer thought-provoking new insights for anyone interested in travel writing, human geography, the sociology of tourism, and visual culture.
Download or read book Lotus Blossom written by Hayton Monteith and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs of Love and Grief written by Heinrich Heine and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many of Heine's poems are deceptively simple on the surface, the multiple allusions, word plays, and shifts and breaks in diction and tone make them almost untranslatable. Arndt not only renders the meaning of the originals, but preserves the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods and multiple cultural resonance.
Download or read book Chakra Rituals written by Cristi Christensen and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cristi Christensen's Chakra Rituals is a book that makes the ancient science of Chakras accessible to spiritually conscious women, and offers a seven-week step-by-step program. Learn how to tap into the single most perfect system living inside of each of us—the seven Chakras. While Chakras have become trendy, sexy, cool, and very spiritual, few people today really know how to activate the Chakras’ powerful energy for deep transformation. Cristi Christensen aims to change that, and Chakra Rituals offers readers a multi-dimensional, practical, and inspiring structured seven-week step-by-step program. Each week, readers are instructed how to activate a different Chakra, and each weekday they are led through a dynamic, easy, and motivating practice (altar building; breathing; meditation; vinyasa yoga flow, mudra, writing contemplation, and embodiment) which distills the esoteric concepts and makes them tangible, living experiences. A self-discovery and self-help guide with striking full-color illustrations, Chakra Rituals employs the Chakras’ potential to open the pathways to a full, enlightened “aliveness.” Seasoned practitioners and newcomers alike are invited to flow with their emotions, claim their power, transform their lives, and align with the divine.
Download or read book The Awakening of the West written by Stephen Batchelor and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awakening of the West is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western culture. As anyone familiar with the work of Stephen Batchelor (best-selling author of Buddhism Without Beliefs) would expect, The Awakening of the West is presented in a fresh and lively way and backed by thorough research. Using the innovative approach of starting with the present and working back in time, Batchelor makes it easy to connect familiar contemporary Buddhist teachers to their historical roots. He breathes life into history by capturing the personalities and times of famous and lesser-known but important Buddhist figures. After absorbing these stories and their context, readers will not only have a greater appreciation of Buddhism as a religion but can gain insights that can help them develop their own discerning wisdom. The Awakening of the West is a unique, engaging and important book for anyone seeking a greater understanding of Buddhism.
Download or read book A Lotus Will Bloom written by Natalee Cole and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a lotus blooms, its blossoms unfold one by one. Each poem in each section is an unfolding blossom, as each reflects the writer speaking her truth and growing from the release the poem gives. Many of the poems are inspired by life events and experiences. The Lotus signifies 'resilience, rebirth and strength', and so the poems are a reminder that despite damning circumstances that try to sometimes bury us in metaphorical mud, we can, like the Lotus, go through it and still bloom. A Lotus will Bloom is a collection of 41 poems covering a range of topics. The collection is divided into four sections - Mental Health; The Heart Speaks, Social Justice and Equality, and Representation of Women. Embodied in these poems are the unexpressed emotions of anyone who has survived trauma, loss, or heartbreak; who've had to deal with social pressures, and try to find their place in space. The poems are a nudge to say - "hey, you are not alone; one day you will bloom".
Download or read book Kaleidoscope Reflecting Facets of Human Emotions written by Compiled by StoryMirror and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of English short stories by StoryMirror is a result of hard work, imagination and determination of promising writers. They are sure to provide an opportunity to the readers to access the best stories and also bear ample evidence to the vast corpus of work on StoryMirror website. The agglomeration of these phenomenal stories come from thousands of stories gotten on StoryMirror. Each story teaches us something, is relatable and provides an opportunity to think beyond routine life. These short stories are the most interesting, gripping, imaginative and entertaining creation of the writes. It is rightly said – “We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.” Read on and enjoy!
Download or read book Ethics Principles and Logic written by Wadley Iii and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
