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Book The Kindred Conversation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Kindred with
  • Publisher : Blurb
  • Release : 2017-06-25
  • ISBN : 9781389902871
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Kindred Conversation written by Karen Kindred with and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adage is a short saying that transmits knowledge, and some have been around for generations. You might remember a parent or grandparent saying: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", "A leopard can't change its spots", or "Better safe than sorry." There are hundreds of these sayings and they all translate into excellent advice and food for thought. I have come up with dozens of new adages over the years. Some are quotes from famous people, some I heard somewhere and they stuck with me, and others I just made up. We all know how difficult it can be to learn a new behavior. Throughout my practice I have used the new adages to help my clients. They serve as prompts to actions or self checking. Many new adages are interconnected, but they are meant to be explored in any order, and revisited frequently. I have had clients that I saw 25 years ago tell me that not only do they still use the new adages, but many people in their lives use them as well. It is my sincere hope that these ideas have the same effect in your life.

Book The Kindred Conversation  New Adages

Download or read book The Kindred Conversation New Adages written by Karen Kindred with Natalie House and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-06-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adage is a short saying that transmits knowledge, and some have been around for generations. You might remember a parent or grandparent saying: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", "A leopard can't change its spots", or "Better safe than sorry." There are hundreds of these sayings and they all translate into excellent advice and food for thought. I have come up with dozens of new adages over the years. Some are quotes from famous people, some I heard somewhere and they stuck with me, and others I just made up. We all know how difficult it can be to learn a new behavior. Throughout my practice I have used the new adages to help my clients. They serve as prompts to actions or self checking. Many new adages are interconnected, but they are meant to be explored in any order, and revisited frequently. I have had clients that I saw 25 years ago tell me that not only do they still use the new adages, but many people in their lives use them as well. It is my sincere hope that these ideas have the same effect in your life.

Book Kindred

    Book Details:
  • Author : Octavia E. Butler
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2004-02-01
  • ISBN : 0807083704
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Kindred written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.

Book The Kindred Conversation  New Adages

Download or read book The Kindred Conversation New Adages written by Karen Kindred Lcsw and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have automatic thoughts that we repeat to ourselves over and over again. This makes our neurons fire in a certain way. When we change those thoughts from negative to positive, the old neurons die, and new ones are created. The New Adages can take over old negative thoughts and actions, and change the way you think and respond to external events, as well as your own moods and feelings. Mindfulness made easy. The best way to utilize this book is to first read through the entire book, which takes about 30 minutes. Take note as you're reading which adages really resonate with you. Pick one adage and use it. Read it in the morning and at night. Turn it over in your mind. Think of times it would've helped you in the past. Use the adage as an affirmation. Talk about it with friends and colleagues. Watch and be aware. When you are at a crossroads, this adage will actually put you into mindfulness, and will alter your old ways of doing things. We don't need to reinvent the wheel again, but we can find new and different ways to use it.

Book Kindred  A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Download or read book Kindred A Graphic Novel Adaptation written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.

Book Leave Out the Tragic Parts

Download or read book Leave Out the Tragic Parts written by Dave Kindred and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary investigation of the death of the author's grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our families and ourselves. Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing to wander across America on freight train cars and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, and withholding the truth from many who loved him, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred's love for his grandson has never wavered. Leave Out the Tragic Parts is not merely a reflection on love and addiction and loss. It is a hard-won work of reportage, meticulously reconstructing the life Jared chose for himself--a life that rejected the comforts of civilization in favor of a chance to roam free. Kindred asks painful but important questions about the lies we tell to get along, and what binds families together or allows them to fracture. Jared's story ended in tragedy, but the act of telling it is an act of healing and redemption. This is an important book on how to love your family, from a great writer who has lived its lessons.

Book Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People

Download or read book Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People written by Lisa Cherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in conversations on a range of pertinent topics and issues affecting children and young people today. Divided into three main parts, which introduce attachment, adversity and trauma, each discussion places an emphasis on emotion and the understanding that we have as humans for compassion, empathy and connection. By encouraging collaboration between sectors and exploring a range of intersecting themes, the conversations take the reader on a winding journey to broaden their depth of thinking, reflect on their practice and to consider the central message: that we can bring about social change, one interaction at a time. This book is a call to action and an opportunity to look around and decide what kind of service we want to provide, what kind of community we want to live in and what sort of legacy we want to leave. At a time of ever-present social and political challenges, this book will stimulate conversations on current practice and professional development for the future and is a must-read for everyone working with children and young people.

Book Martin   Anne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Churnin
  • Publisher : Creston Books
  • Release : 2021-03-01
  • ISBN : 1954354029
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Martin Anne written by Nancy Churnin and published by Creston Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.

Book Beyond Colorblind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Shin
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2017-11-14
  • ISBN : 0830888977
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Beyond Colorblind written by Sarah Shin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While society may try to be colorblind, we can’t ignore that God created us with our ethnic identities, and he made them for good. Ethnicity and evangelism specialist Sarah Shin reveals how our broken ethnic stories can be restored and redeemed, demonstrating God's power to others and bringing good news to the world. Discover how your ethnic story can be transformed for compelling witness and mission.

Book The Kindred Spirits Supper Club

Download or read book The Kindred Spirits Supper Club written by Amy E. Reichert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jobless and forced home to Wisconsin, journalist Sabrina Monroe can tolerate reunions with frenemies and kisses from old boyfriends, but not the literal ghosts that greet her in this heartwarming tale of the power of love and connection from acclaimed author Amy E. Reichert. For Sabrina Monroe, moving back home to the Wisconsin Dells--the self-described Waterpark Capital of the World--means returning to the Monroe family curse: the women in her family can see spirits who come to them for help with unfinished business. But Sabrina's always redirected the needy spirits to her mom, who's much better suited for the job. The one exception has always been Molly, a bubbly rom-com loving ghost, who stuck by Sabrina's side all through her lonely childhood. Her personal life starts looking up when Ray, the new local restaurateur, invites Sabrina to his supper club, where he flirts with her over his famous Brandy Old-Fashioneds. He's charming and handsome, but Sabrina tells herself she doesn't have time for romance--she needs to focus on finding a job. Except the longer she's in the Dells, the harder it is to resist her feelings for Ray. Who can turn down a cute guy with a fondness for rescue dogs and an obsession with perfecting his fried cheese curds recipe? When the Dells starts to feel like home for the first time and with Ray in her corner, Sabrina begins to realize that she can make a difference and help others wherever she is.

Book Sought

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evangeline Anderson
  • Publisher : Evangeline Anderson
  • Release : 2020-10-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Sought written by Evangeline Anderson and published by Evangeline Anderson. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman...Two hot guys...A galaxy of problems Kat O’Connor is no pushover. She’s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life. But there’s nothing common about what’s happening to her lately… Kat is being Sought Kat O’Connor is no pushover. She’s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life. But there’s nothing common about what’s happening to her lately… First she was forced to have a kinky mind ménage with two of the hottest and most irritating men in the galaxy—Twin Kindred warriors, Deep and Lock—in order to locate her kidnapped friend. Then she couldn’t get their feelings out of her head. And now she’s on her way to their home planet, Twin Moons, to find a cure for the debilitating illness their unorthodox joining caused, when all she really wants to do is go home. Locks Tight, the light twin of the two, is already in love with Kat. Her curvy plus-sized body is the epitome of beauty on his home planet and her sharp mind makes her doubly attractive. But though he fell for her the moment he saw her, Twin Kindred are unable to mate a woman alone. Lock knows nothing can happen between them without his brother… Stabs Deep. The dark twin has a secret agony in his past—a tragedy he feels he and he alone is to blame for. He too, hungers for Kat, but he hides his fear of rejection behind an impenetrable wall of angry sarcasm. For if he lets anyone get too close, the unbearable pain he has already endured once may happen again. Now Kat and her twin warriors are on a quest—but they’re all looking for different things. Kat wants to find a way to dissolve the half-formed bond between them so she can be alone in her own head again. Lock wants to convince both her and his brother to complete the bond which will keep them together forever. And Deep is trying to protect his heart and love Kat from afar…though it grows more and more difficult to deny the hunger he feels for her growing inside him. Their travels will take them from the uncharted wilds of Twin Moons to the Deadworld of the Scourge home planet. Will Kat find a cure for having other people’s emotions crowding her mind? Will Lock convince his brother and the woman they both love that they’re all meant to be together forever? And will Deep ever unshield his heart long enough to let Kat in? You’ll have to read Sought, the third book in the Brides of the Kindred series, to find out…

Book Conversations with Octavia Butler

Download or read book Conversations with Octavia Butler written by Octavia E. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

Book The Winged Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sofia Samatar
  • Publisher : Small Beer Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 1618731157
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Winged Histories written by Sofia Samatar and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history. Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Winged Histories is the saga of an empire — and a family: their friendships, their enduring love, their arcane and deadly secrets. Samatar asks who makes history, who endures it, and how the turbulence of historical change sweeps over every aspect of a life and over everyone, no matter whether or not they choose to seek it out. Sofia Samatar is the author of the Crawford, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy award-winning novel A Stranger in Olondria. She also received the John W. Campbell Award. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and many other publications. She is working on a collection of stories. Her website is sofiasamatar.com.

Book Kindred Spirits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Flavia M. Weedn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998-09
  • ISBN : 9780768320510
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Kindred Spirits written by Flavia M. Weedn and published by . This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover with tabs carton quantity: 24 display available

Book The Other Me

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  • Author : Sarah Zachrich Jeng
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-08-02
  • ISBN : 0593334493
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The Other Me written by Sarah Zachrich Jeng and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Who hasn't wondered what alternate versions of their lives might look like?...As relatable as it is suspenseful cleverly exploring adulthood, identity, and shifting realities.” —Margarita Montimore, USA Today bestselling author of Oona Out of Order An inventive page-turner about the choices we make and the ones made for us. One minute Kelly’s a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friend’s art show. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She's got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she's married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school. Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly's search leads only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about him—including a connection to a mysterious tech startup—tells her she shouldn't. And strange things keep happening. The tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning. But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can't figure out what happened on that fateful night, the next change could cost her everything...

Book The Silent Shore

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  • Author : Charles L. Chavis Jr.
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 1421442930
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Silent Shore written by Charles L. Chavis Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."

Book Walking with Trees

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glennie Kindred
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-03
  • ISBN : 9781856233262
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Walking with Trees written by Glennie Kindred and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking with trees takes us on an intimate journey with 13 native trees of Britain and Europe. Glennie leads us into their world, describes their unique characteristics, natural history, healing properties, mythologies and crafts, and opens us to their subtle 'signatures'; what each tree can teach us when our hearts are open. This is a book about our relationships with trees, their relationships with each other and the natural world around them, and the deep interconnection between trees and the web of life on earth. It reveals a transformative pathway for individuals and provides an empowering practice for active engagement in the great challenges of our time.--COVER.