Download or read book Seeking Solace written by Callum Mclaughlin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking Solace is a collection of sixty poems that span a variety of topics and touch on universal aspects of modern life, from nature and war to friendship, love and grief, with many others in between. From the very air we breathe to the wholly make-believe, regardless of whether inspiration has come from the world around us or the most whimsical of dreams, the one common thread that unites them all is a desire to create poetry that is both approachable and relatable.

Download or read book Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island written by Melanie Choukas-Bradley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington D.C. naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley dives into the natural history and beauty of Theodore Roosevelt Island, an island wilderness less than two miles from the White House and a memorial to the United States' foremost conservationist president. In 2016, as the presidential election dealt a body-blow to progressive thinkers in the US, Melanie sought the solace of Theodore Roosevelt Island. In this book she reflects on the inspiring environmental legacy of Roosevelt, and how immersing oneself in nature can help to heal, restore and encourage a person, even in the midst of the strange new reality of a divisive occupant in the White House. Melanie leads the reader along walks and kayak trips around the island, as together with other Washingtonian nature lovers, birders, conservationists, and even descendants of Roosevelt, they find solace in the island's natural wonders, and ponder their nation’s future. Includes a foreword by Tom Lovejoy, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation.

Download or read book All the Lives We Ever Lived written by Katharine Smyth and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favorite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth’s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf’s Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel—and crafts an elegant reminder of literature’s ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. Praise for All the Lives We Ever Lived “This searching memoir pays homage to To the Lighthouse, while recounting the author’s fraught relationship with her beloved father, a vibrant figure afflicted with alcoholism and cancer. . . . Smyth’s writing is evocative and incisive.”—The New Yorker “Like H Is for Hawk, Smyth’s book is a memoir that’s not quite a memoir, using Woolf, and her obsession with Woolf, as a springboard to tell the story of her father’s vivid life and sad demise due to alcoholism and cancer. . . . An experiment in twenty-first century introspection that feels rooted in a modernist tradition and bracingly fresh.”—Vogue “Deeply moving – part memoir, part literary criticism, part outpouring of longing and grief… This is a beautiful book about the wildness of mortal life, and the tenuous consolations of art.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her love for her father, his profound alcoholism and the unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life.”—Time

Download or read book Seeking Solace written by Eric L. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational Poetry with introductions to each poem topic, including a Behind the Poems section where the provide background information for each poem and further discuss the issue that each poem addresses. Many of the included poems are selected from among the authors' signature poems that have received encore applause when performed on stage, on television, in churches or featured on music albums.

Download or read book Seeking Solace written by T.N Watson and published by T.N. Watson. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love left her wanting. Fate called her back. Alexis Mackie has spent the past two years trying to forget the memories of the man she left behind. Despite her attempts, forgetting 'the one' isn't that easy. Desperate for relief, she fights her way back to find the one person who can can help her. But as she steps foot on Obsidian soil, an ancient prophecy comes to life... Navigating her way through harsh surroundings, she soon discovers that Obsidia hasn't been the same since she left. With political tension rising and the menacing rebel group closing in on discovering her presence, Alexis struggles to make her way to Kassius. Despite getting help from old friends, fate has other plans for her. As secrets of the realm begin to reveal themselves, she begins to question what really brought her back... Will Alexis return to the man that holds her heart? What dangerous consequences await her if she does? Seeking Solace is the second book in an intriguing YA fantasy series. If you like gripping fantasies, strong dynamic characters, and tender romance, then you'll love T.N. Watson's fascinating tale. Buy Seeking Solace and discover the secrets of the mysterious land.

Download or read book SEEKING SOLACE written by Zae Rankin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEEKING SOLACE is the debut memoir of poet Tonia Jaehn- aka Zae Rankin. It celebrates how the belated power of her self-determination defeats adversity. At age 2, she grapples with food allergies stemming partly from her mother’s stormy pregnancy and passionate cravings for sugary treats. External environmental factors causes Zae’s acute asthma, which requires several hospitalization to save her life. Thus, a dependency on prescription drugs. As an older adult, she is victimized by a hit and run crime still unsolved She sustains substantial nerve damage. No cure for fibromyalgia - just reliance on loads of other medications. After a while, they become ineffective, so she embraces vodka. Chronic abuse steers her life toward gut wrenching down falls and more near-death episodes. Worse, her crack cocaine addiction leads to eye-popping sexual depravity and botched male/female relationships. In the end, though, she digs deeper into her soul and makes a stunning reversal: self-rehabilitation that eventually brings substantial solace in her life. Her love of domesticated animals, now for her latest Chihuahua “Allison”, is a motivating factor... a priceless replacement for her departed, long-term friend and companion, Solas, a Maltipoo mix breed.

Download or read book Seeking Solace written by Chani Barlow and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking Solace is Chani Barlow’s story of following God’s plan despite a series of unforeseen obstacles, in order to find true meaning and peace. Though Chani Barlow grew up going to church on Sundays, she never really knew if God was real or just a name mentioned over the pulpit. As a teenager, she jaywalked across a busy highway and found Him waiting for her in the recovery room. God gifted her powerful dreams, snapshots of a little boy and girl meant to join her family. But the search wasn’t easy. Infertility, financial setbacks, mental illness, and rejection led her to wonder if God had forgotten her—but was she really paying attention? Seeking Solace tells the story of REAL miracles. It puts an arm around the reader’s shoulder and points out how their coincidences might not just be coincidences.

Download or read book Finding Solace in the Soil written by Bonnie J. Clark and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories and archival data and enriched by the personal photographs and memories of former Amache incarcerees, the book describes how gardeners cultivated community in confinement. Before incarceration, many at Amache had been farmers, gardeners, or nursery workers. Between 1942 and 1945, they applied their horticultural expertise to the difficult high plains landscape of southeastern Colorado. At Amache they worked to form microclimates, reduce blowing sand, grow better food, and achieve stability and preserve community at a time of dehumanizing dispossession. In this book archaeologist Bonnie J. Clark examines botanical data like seeds, garden-related artifacts, and other material evidence found at Amache, as well as oral histories from survivors and archival data including personal letters and government records, to recount how the prisoners of Amache transformed the harsh military setting of the camp into something resembling a town. She discusses the varieties of gardens found at the site, their place within Japanese and Japanese American horticultural traditions, and innovations brought about by the creative use of limited camp resources. The gardens were regarded by the incarcerees as a gift to themselves and to each other. And they were also, it turns out, a gift to the future as repositories of generational knowledge where a philosophical stance toward nature was made manifest through innovation and horticultural skill. Framing the gardens and gardeners of Amache within the larger context of the incarceration of Japanese Americans and of recent scholarship on displacement and confinement, Finding Solace in the Soil will be of interest to gardeners, historical archaeologists, landscape archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and scholars of Japanese American history and horticultural history.

Download or read book In Seeking Solace written by Peni-El Raphakumwah and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seeking Solace is the raw account of a life lived in search of love. It details a voice that, though most often strangled, continues to cry out to know and be known, to love and be loved well. In Seeking Solace is Peni-El Raphakumwah's first published work. She is a true poet who tells of her most intimate life and love perceptions in poems such as: DaddyLinks Come Home with Me Hold Me Down Erotica Love Starved My Man Wedding Day Written with Raphakumwah's innate musical sensibilities, Solace reads like a compact disc plays, complete with interludes that masterfully continue the flow of distinct, melodious, and sometimes piercing thought. Quite musical, there is a story here that never breaks its flow or its tumult; not until it reaches placidity in the final hopes of a heart left unscarred in battle, still ambulatory, and moving forward in search of a true, abiding, and everlasting love. In Seeking Solace For Those Who Have Never Been Loved Well but will be.

Download or read book Seeking Solace The Life and Legacy of Horatio G Spafford written by Dr Thomas E. Corts and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never had Horatio and Anna Spafford imagined that a family vacation to Europe would forever change their lives. In 1873, the ship Ville du Havre was nicknamed the "floating palace" -the finest, most luxurious steamer on the Atlantic. "Unsinkable" was the word used to describe her safety and sturdiness of construction. One week after departure from New York, unsuspecting passengers of the Ville du Havre were shuffled from their beds and flung into the dark Atlantic when their ship was dissected by another-the Loch Earn. Many lives were saved, but many were lost at sea, including the four daughters of Horatio and Anna. Heartbroken, Horatio put the ebb and flow of his emotions and faith to paper and penned the poem "It Is Well." Later, Philip P. Bliss, a well-known author of hymns and gospel songs, composed a melody, and the result was the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul," which has lent comfort to many grief-stricken souls. Too often the telling of the Horatio Spafford story ends with the writing of this hymn. Instead, Dr. Corts takes you to the end of Horatio and Anna's lives. After the shipwreck, the grieving Spaffords conducted a relentless search for spiritual guidance that ultimately led to Anna's declaration that she was a prophet of God. The years that followed were ones of spiritual and financial havoc for the Spaffords. What Dr. Corts's research revealed was that the Spafford story is an example of the indomitable human spirit to survive when faced with personal calamity. More importantly, it is the story of the devastating consequences that can occur when sincere, well-meaning Christians abandon the Bible as their guidebook and seek answers elsewhere.

Download or read book The Solace of Open Spaces written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

Download or read book On Consolation written by Michael Ignatieff and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.

Download or read book I Don t Want to Be Big written by Dev Petty and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of the hit picture book I Don’t Want to Be a Frog will love this silly companion featuring a frog that's still as stubborn as ever and his surprisingly patient father. "Reminiscent of Mo Willems’s 'Elephant and Piggie' series"—Publishers Weekly Frog does NOT want to grow up. Doesn’t need to be tall. Doesn’t want to be able to jump high enough to see the tree frogs. He’s just FINE being small. Besides, if you grow up, you don’t get to do fun things like jump in mud puddles with your best friend, Pig. Do you? This hilarious story­—which uses humor to teach that it’s great being exactly who you are—is sure to bring a smile to every kid who just wants to stay a kid, in addition to those who are the smallest in their class. It’s a sly and smartly funny tale that will have children and parents laughing together. And look for all the books in this hilarious series: I Don't Want to Be a Frog There's Nothing to Do! I Don't Want to Go to Sleep

Download or read book Claymates written by Dev Petty and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the claymates: two balls of clay that can become anything--even best friends! What can you do with two blobs of clay? Create something amazing! But don't leave them alone for too long. Things might get a little crazy. In this photographic friendship adventure, the claymates squish, smash, and sculpt themselves into the funniest shapes imaginable. But can they fix a giant mess before they're caught in the act?

Download or read book There s Nothing to Do written by Dev Petty and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bank Street College of Education 2018 Best Children's Book of the Year In another hilarious book from the I Don’t Want to be a Frog series, young Frog learns an unexpected lesson about how NOT to be bored. Perfect for fans of Mo Willems’s Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and Jon Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back! Frog is bored. He can’t find ANYTHING to do—even when his animal friends make good suggestions, like sleeping all day, licking between his toes, or hopping around and then staring off into space. Will he find a fun and exciting way to spend his day? Featuring the beloved characters from I Don’t Want to Be a Frog and I Don’t Want to Be Big, this new story is sure to bring a smile to every kid who’s ever said “There’s nothing to do!” And look for the other books starring Frog: I Don't Want to Be a Frog, I Don't Want to Be Big and I Don't Want to Go to Sleep. ★ "Snappy, spot-on dialogue pairs ideally with the outsize drama of Boldt’s artwork; reading this book belongs on families’ to-do lists."—Publishers Weekly, starred review "In a structured, overstimulated world, downtime needs to be appreciated, and this small amphibian shows the way."—Kirkus

Download or read book Saving Graces written by Elizabeth Edwards and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragically at age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in Saving Graces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards’ trials, tragedies, and triumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys and lent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times. Edwards writes about growing up in a military family, where she learned how to make friends easily in dozens of new schools and neighborhoods around the world and came to appreciate the unstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Edwards’ reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she and other parents offered one another, from everyday favors to the ultimate test of her own community’s strength—their compassionate response to the death of the Edwards’ teenage son, Wade, in 1996. Her descriptions of her husband’s campaigns for Senate, president, and vice president offer a fascinating perspective on the groups, great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred an outpouring of support from women across the country, has once again affirmed Edwards’ belief in the power of community to make our lives better and richer.

Download or read book Finding Solace written by Crystal Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Moment Is All It Takes To Change Your Life Forever. Reid Carter-Road Captain for The Kings of Retribution MC. He was born into the life. A world where you live and play by your own rules. Tragedy strikes, taking the life of his younger brother Noah leaving him to pick up the broken pieces. Four years later he still wanders through his existence bitter and jaded by the hand he was dealt. Until Mila and her daughter walk into his life making him feel whole again. Single mother Mila Vaughn knows what it's like to struggle every day. Returning to Polson, the only place she truly felt at peace-Experienced love, she makes a home for herself and her daughter and fulfills her dream of becoming a nurse. When her skills place her into the arms of outlaw biker Reid Carter; sheltering her heart from him proves more complicated than Mila prepared herself for. Chaos finds its way to their hometown; Reid will stop at nothing to protect the woman he wants and his future.