Download or read book My Grandfather s Altar written by Richard Moves Camp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Grandfather s Altar written by Richard Moves Camp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Grandfather's Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of Richard Moves Camp's family history and traditions.

Download or read book My Grandfather s Mill written by Andrew Melnyk and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Grandfather’s Mill – Journey to Freedom is a true story — part history, part biography. It focuses on two families and their two infant children, Andrew and Chrystyna, born in Western Ukraine at the height of the Second World War. Their parents fought for Ukrainian independence throughout the years of Polish occupation, the invasion of Stalin’s Bolshevik forces and during the years of Hitler’s Nazi terror. Members of both their families were murdered by one or another of the occupying armies. Family accounts of concentration camps, refugee camps; of war crimes, brutality and uncertainty, of hope, courage and unexpected generosity are interwoven with the historical realities of the time. They were among the lucky ones who found freedom in North America. Half a century after they left their homeland, Andrew and Chrystyna returned. They discovered the villages of their birth, found family members they didn’t know existed, experienced their culture fi rst-hand and fi nally began to make sense of their place in history. This book is written for future generations, for all those who have lived in two very different worlds, for victims of wars, present day refugees, immigrants and especially for those who were born and have always lived in a free country and never experienced the horrors of war.

Download or read book At the Altar of Lynching written by Donald G. Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose through the lens of the religious culture in the evangelical American South.

Download or read book God Pictures in Korean Contexts written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamans walking on knives, fairies riding on clouds, kings with dragon mounts: They are gods and they are paper images. Some are repulsed and unsettled by shaman paintings, some cannot stop collecting them, and some use them as sites of veneration. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes a Korean shaman painting magical or sacred. How does a picture carry the trace of a god and can it ever be “just a painting” again? How have shaman paintings been revalued as art? Do artfulness and magic ever intersect? Does it matter, as a matter of market value, that the painting was once a sacred thing? Navigating the journey shaman paintings make from painters’ studios to shaman shrines to private collections and museums, the three authors deftly traverse the borderland between scholarly interests in the material dimension of religious practice and the circulation of art. Illustrated with sixty images in color and black and white, the book offers a new vantage point on “the social life of things.” This is not a story of a collecting West and a disposing rest; the primary collectors and commentators on Korean shaman paintings are South Koreans re-imagining their own past in light of their own modernist sensibility. It is a tale told with an awareness of both recent South Korean history and the problematic question of how the paintings are understood by different South Korean actors, most particularly the shamans and collectors who share a common language and sometimes meet face-to-face.

Download or read book Hearth and Home Witchcraft written by Jennie Blonde and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jennie’s blend of witchcraft and hygge resonates so deeply with me. In Hearth and Home Witchcraft, Jennie’s book is a joyful and supportive exploration of domestic witchcraft. Nourishment and comfort are important themes here, as is accessibility; you don't need a background in magick to start exploring hearth-craft.” —Arin Murphy-Hiscock, author of The Green Witch, The House Witch, and other books For author Jennie Blonde, witchcraft is, in and of itself, comforting. Sure, there are not-so-comfortable parts as well—working with the shadow, coming face to face with that which holds you back. Jennie’s witchcraft is about connecting with the magic of nature, your higher self, and something beyond—a deity, deities, Spirit, the universe—and being comfortable with your true self in all aspects of your life. “In times of anxiety,” Jennie writes, “I turn to my practice. When I need a moment of calm and reflection, I retreat to my sacred space for quiet meditation, pulling tarot cards, and journaling to nourish my soul. When I want to nourish my family, I turn to my garden and herbs and cauldron (my stockpot) for a bit of kitchen witchery. When I wish to nourish my body, I turn to mindful movement, self-care rituals, and spell work. And throughout the day, every day, there are small rituals I perform to keep me connected to my practice. It’s all of those things together that are the heart of my craft.” Hearth and Home Witchcraft explores the following topics: rituals for protection and cleansing the hearth and home kitchen witchery, creating a kitchen altar, and recipes and rituals for nourishment the witch’s altar, tools, and spells, and creating a sacred space, no matter the size of the home herbs and plants, grounding rituals, and meditations to connect you with the earth witchy self-care, complete with rituals and recipes for ritual bath salts, oils, balms, and more

Download or read book My Grandfather s Blessings written by Rachel Naomi Remen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive. Dr. Remen's grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection and knew that everyone belonged to him, and that he belonged to everyone. He taught her that blessing one another is what fills our emptiness, heals our loneliness, and connects us more deeply to life. Life has given us many more blessings than we have allowed ourselves to receive. My Grandfather's Blessings is about how we can recognize and receive our blessings and bless the life in others. Serving others heals us. Through our service we will discover our own wholeness—and the way to restore hidden wholeness in the world.

Download or read book The Witch s Altar written by Jason Mankey and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prehistoric times to the modern day, the altar has been a pivotal tool for ritual and magick. The Witch's Altar is an in-depth exploration of altars for covens and solo practitioners. From building and maintaining your altar to exploring the use of mobile and hidden altars, this book offers advice, techniques, and fun for Witches of all ages and skill levels. Learn about the altar's role in history and mythology. Personalize your altar with candles, crystals, sacred tools, magickal objects, statues, pentacles, and symbols. Explore how different altar locations may affect your practice, and discover new ideas for elemental, seasonal, and outdoor altars, as well as altars for the dead. The Witch's Altar also includes fascinating contributions from leading writers, including Jenya T. Beachy, Lilith Dorsey, Lon Milo DuQuette, Angus McMahan, Louis Martinié, Lupa, Gwion Raven, Natalie Zaman, Andrieh Vitimus, and many more. Filled with spells, recipes, and tips, this book provides everything you need to help you create the altar of your magickal dreams.

Download or read book My Grandfather s House written by Robert Clark and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Augustine's "Confessions", Robert Clark tells the story of his return to the Catholic Church through the prism of the religious history of his ancestors.

Download or read book The Old Man Who Wakes Up the Sun written by Gerald D. Cline Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of short stories --The Old Man Who Wakes Up the Sun: What if he fails? Will the sun still come up?Buford's Dilemma: All Buford had to do was guard the damn Yankee prisoner. But the damn Yankee prisoner was his brother-in-law.ein Arbet Lager (the Work Camp): The old woman accused Hans of murdering prisoners in the concentration camp where he was a guard during the war. But was she even present at the incident she describes so vividly. A Soldier in the Rain: Unless you were there you couldn't understand the ghost that haunted Henderson's dreams. Barbara Deyer: Barbara discovered sex the summer before she disappeared. It was only a matter of time before it got her into trouble, one way or another

Download or read book The Whiteboy written by Mrs. S. C. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book November 2 written by Ettore Grillo and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 2 is a special day in Sicily. The Day of the Dead is considered an important festival, when children receive gifts from the dead and eat special bone-shaped cakes. Cemeteries are overcrowded with people walking in the lanes, placing flowers at gravesites, and lighting candles in their tombs. Many Sicilian tombs look like small houses: They contain a room, an altar, and marble-walled niches. Mario Chiaramonte goes to the cemetery on this day. Besides visiting the tombs of his relatives and friends, he strolls throughout the graveyard. On his walk, he stumbles on some special tombs. A few have an epitaph carved on the tombstone or above the altar. The tombs he visits house the bodies of a Mafia boss, a literary man, a poet, a nobleman, and more. Mario recalls the salient moments of their lives, and at the same time sees himself from a different detached perspective. Romance, adventure, life, death, the Mafia, good and evil, racism, and impermanence are themes throughout the novel. November 2: The Day of the Dead in Sicily is thought-provoking and captivating from beginning to end.

Download or read book Waiting for the End of the World written by Madison Smartt Bell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exhilirating” novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Straight Cut (The New Yorker). As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, Clarence Dmitri Larkin is exposed to the fraying underbelly of New York City. Drawn in by the stories of the sick, the lost, and the insane, Larkin’s own dark impulses lead him through the streets of Brooklyn’s shadowy warehouse district. Increasingly isolated from the world around him, Larkin falls in with a disturbed cell of outcasts. Their ringleader, empowered by confused visions of grandeur and revolution, launches an outlandish scheme to plant an atomic bomb in the catacombs under Times Square. Narrated with unsettling plausibility, Bell’s debut novel demonstrates the remarkable literary skill celebrated in his later novels, such as Soldier’s Joy and The Year of Silence. With “real brilliance . . . full of fire . . . Bell provides promise: promise of his own talent and promise that young American writers are not all retreating from ‘big’ subjects” (The New York Times). “Every sentence [Bell] writes is a joy. His power is exhilarating.” —The New Yorker

Download or read book The Forgotten Japanese written by Tsuneichi Miyamoto and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.

Download or read book The One Minute Hero written by Troy S. Hoffman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The One Minute Hero” is the story of how I became torn between saving the life of Jason, whom I met only once, and guaranteeing my own life. I was able to discover the value of life through the eyes of a stranger. Amidst this difficult decision my eight-year-old daughter stepped in and inspired me to be stronger and more compassionate than I thought was possible. Through my efforts to save Jason I was able to battle tragedy in my own life. It would take everything within me to overcome the abyss of my own mind. The light that I saw in Jason and his family would finally guide me out of that abyss and righted my ship. Though it appeared that our paths crossed for me to save him, Jason ended up saving me. This is the story of how I fought through the struggles of life, as well as how I had to change my perspective through the process. In doing this, the way I viewed the world was forever changed. I invite you to traverse through all of these random paths with me, and see how I became “The One Minute Hero”. I believe these paths may not have been random at all, but how I was put on a collision course to share this story with you.

Download or read book Hitler s Last Victims written by Herbert R. Vogt Ph.D and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Houses written by Angela Margaret Thirkell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Three Houses" by Angela Margaret Thirkell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.