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Book Love s Braided Dance

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  • Author : Yii-Jan Lin
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2024-10-29
  • ISBN : 0300272650
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Love s Braided Dance written by Yii-Jan Lin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to prevent pain and trouble, but as something people do. Hope evaporates in conditions of abandonment and abuse. It grows in contexts of nurture and belonging. Hope ignites when people join in what Wendell Berry calls “love’s braided dance”—a commitment to care for one another and our world. Through personal narratives and historical examples, Wirzba explores what sustains hope and why it so often seems absent from our vision of the future. The vitality of hope, he maintains, depends on a collective commitment to care for the physical world (its soils and waters, plants and animals, homes and neighborhoods) and to promote the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual ideals that affirm life as good, beautiful, and sacred. Engaging with such contemporary topics as climate change, AI and social media, and the intensifying refugee crises and drawing on the wisdom of James Baldwin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martha Graham, and others, Wirzba offers a powerful argument for hope as a way of life in which people are intimately and practically joined with all the living.

Book Dancing on My Ashes

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  • Author : Heather Gilion
  • Publisher : Tate Publishing
  • Release : 2010-05
  • ISBN : 1607998718
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Dancing on My Ashes written by Heather Gilion and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.

Book The British Controversialist

Download or read book The British Controversialist written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Locales

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  • Author : Fred Chappell
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780807128640
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Locales written by Fred Chappell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 under the inspiration of Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging excellence and recognizing distinction in southern letters. Membership is by invitation only, and the group meets biennially and bestows prizes in fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Locales thus represents poetry of truly superlative quality, gathering works by Fellowship members and by esteemed writers who have won Fellowship awards for verse: A. R. Ammons, James Applewhite, Wendell Berry, Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, James Dickey, George Garrett, Rodney Jones, Andrew Hudgins, T. R. Hummer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert Morgan, George Scarbrough, Dave Smith, Henry Taylor, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Robert Penn Warren, and Charles Wright. Chosen by Fred Chappell, these poems reflect the truth that the general is most securely held to when in the grip of the particular. They are not just specific, not only regional, but tightly joined to highly detailed places within the southern sphere, wielding a far greater force and universal application than a placeless poetry might have. This “southern gazette of heart and mind with mountains and valleys, forests and farms, rivers and marshes, graveyards and barrooms,” as Fred Chappell describes the volume, offers a lyrical topography of the southern—and of the American—spirit that is inviting, entertaining, always surprising, and sometimes ominous. Far from being of merely regional interest, Locales demonstrates that there is no place, however small or remote or obscure, that cannot call forth a resonant outcry of the heart.

Book The Dance of Siva

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  • Author : David Smith
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-11-13
  • ISBN : 9780521528658
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Dance of Siva written by David Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full account of Siva's Dance of Bliss, which has become a popular symbol in the West for Hinduism and Eastern Mysticism. Siva is one of the two main gods of Hinduism, and his worshippers comprise half of all Hindus. Siva's Dance of Bliss is based on a remarkable Sanskrit poem written by Umapati Sivacarya, Saiva theologian and temple priest in Cidambaram, South India, in the fourteenth century. Starting with the bronze image of Nataraja, King of Dancers, thereafter the Cidambaram temple, its myth and its priests are viewed in the light of the poem. Umapati's Saiva theology is discussed in relation to his life and also in relation to Vedanta and yoga. The iconography and mythology of the Goddess and of other forms of Siva provide necessary perspective. Art from Cidambaram and neighbouring sites illuminates the text.

Book The Kosher Baker

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  • Author : Paula Shoyer
  • Publisher : UPNE
  • Release : 2010-09-14
  • ISBN : 1584659491
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Kosher Baker written by Paula Shoyer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary bible of kosher baking breathes fresh life into parve desserts and breads

Book The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Download or read book The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hair Dance

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  • Author : Dinah Johnson
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-09-04
  • ISBN : 9780805065237
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Hair Dance written by Dinah Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair comes in all colors, textures, and styles. Whether it is worn long or short, in braids or cornrows, or left natural in an Afro, hair plays a big part in who we are and how we feel about ourselves. In this inspiring book, Kelly Johnson's stunning photographs of girls wearing a range of hairstyles and the lyrical words of Dinah Johnson's poem celebrate African American hair in all its radiant variety. Hair Dance! is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Book Dancing to the devil

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  • Author : William Cowper Brann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Dancing to the devil written by William Cowper Brann and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dancing at Ciro s

Download or read book Dancing at Ciro s written by Sheila Weller and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poignant memoir of a not-so-typical New York Jewish family’s experiences in the midcentury Hollywood demimonde ... Equal parts emotional tissue-party and shrewd cultural history." - Kirkus Reviews In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father. In Dancing at Ciro's, Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss.

Book Wyrdcraft

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  • Author : Matthew Ash McKernan
  • Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
  • Release : 2023-01-08
  • ISBN : 0738772119
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Wyrdcraft written by Matthew Ash McKernan and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving Germanic Paganism with mysticism, magic, and his background as a transpersonal therapist, Matthew Ash McKernan introduces you to wyrd, a mysterious web of being that connects everything. Wyrd encompasses all organisms, ecosystems, matter, phenomena, purposes, and possibilities. It is destiny, nature, soul, magic, and mystery intertwined. In Wyrdcraft, McKernan guides you through a process of attuning to wyrd as it manifests within all the domains of your life, teaching you how to sense and intuit the ways of wyrd more clearly than ever before. Exploring the intersections of psychotherapy, ecotherapy, Heathenry, and magic, this contemplative and experiential book offers nearly fifty exercises to help you cultivate wyrd consciousness—an awareness that is naturally revealing, healing, transformative, and becoming. Becoming what, you may ask? You will see as you align with the wisdom of wyrd, heal yourself and our interconnected world, and remember the nature of your Higher Self.

Book Braids

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  • Author : Yashodhara Singh
  • Publisher : Partridge Publishing
  • Release : 2014-12-29
  • ISBN : 1482842866
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Braids written by Yashodhara Singh and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braids is a novel, somewhere between fictional romance, and a tale untold. A book dedicated to old-fashioned romance of yesteryears in todays day and age, was a challenge in itself. The completion of this book has been a journey; an endeavour to show how people can control their actions, even if the situation is beyond their reach. It is my hope that you, dear Reader, experience the book as you read it. As a fellow human who feels, thinks, believes, hopes. I believe everything begins and ends with the mind. Once it reaches the heart, it just stays. Hope Braids touches a chord with you too; for, to reach you, this is the only path I can pave. Enjoy what you hold. Enjoy what you have. Love, Yashodhara Singh.

Book I Love My Llamacorn

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  • Author : Danielle McLean
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2019-06-04
  • ISBN : 0593122062
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book I Love My Llamacorn written by Danielle McLean and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cutest half-unicorn half-llama you can possibly imagine comes to life in this rainbow-colored confection of a board book! Do you love llamas? How about unicorns? Now imagine if you smushed them together and added a zillion rainbows, glitter, and some magic! You'd get a whole new best friend in the shape of...a LLAMACORN! Llamacorns are fleecy, sparkly creatures that are full of love and kindness, and can make all your dreams come true. In this rhyming board book, a die-cut heart shines a new color of the rainbow on every page! Kids and adults will giggle and swoon over this fantastical creature, deliciously rendered in bold jewel tones.

Book Fancy Dance

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  • Author : Leslie Johnson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781584307297
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Fancy Dance written by Leslie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe is dancing the Fancy Dance for the first time. How do you think he feels?"--Back cover.

Book About Time

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  • Author : Andrew Bolton
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2020-06-15
  • ISBN : 1588396886
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book About Time written by Andrew Bolton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, 1928 About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or backward in time. These unexpected pairings, which relate to one another through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration, create a unique and disruptive fashion chronology that conflates notions of past, present, and future. Virginia Woolf serves as “ghost narrator”: excerpts from her novels reflect on the passage of time with each subsequent plate pairing. A new short story by Michael Cunningham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Hours, recounts a day in the life of a woman over a time span of 150 years through her changing fashions. Scholar Theodore Martin analyzes theoretical responses to the nature of time, underscoring that time is not simply a sequence of historical events. And fashion photographer Nicholas Alan Cope illustrates 120 fashions with sublime black and-white photography. This stunning book reveals fashion’s paradoxical connection to linear notions of time.

Book War Dances

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  • Author : Sherman Alexie
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-10-15
  • ISBN : 1480457221
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book War Dances written by Sherman Alexie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy who learns to value his own life by appreciating the deaths of others. Perceptions change, too, as “Another Proclamation” casts a shadow over Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and “Invisible Dog on a Leash” limns the heartbreak of shattered childhood illusions. And nostalgia for antiquated technology is tenderly rendered in “Ode to Mix Tapes” and “Ode for Pay Phones.” With his versatile voice, Alexie explores love, betrayal, fatherhood, alcoholism, and art in this spirited, soulful, and endlessly entertaining collection, transcending genre boundaries to create something truly unique. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Book Dramatic Works and Poems

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1848
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1208 pages

Download or read book Dramatic Works and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: