Download or read book Nature s Final Curtain Call written by S T Kimbrough Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the performing arts, curtain calls transpire when performers return to the stage to be recognized by the audience for their performance. It may seem somewhat strange to speak of "nature's curtain call," but I am thinking of those amazing moments when with the passing of seasons Mother Nature presents a stunning performance, so to speak, for which we, the observers, are amazed: the appearance of spring's flowers, the budding trees of spring, snow-white winter snow, huge flocks of Canadian geese flying south, the filling of dry waterbeds with late spring's melting snow, the stunning colors of autumn's leaves, the glorious colors of desert flowers, newborn animals of diverse species, and changing climates across the earth. There are cycles of nature that enable these wonders. The poems in this book address some of the wonders of nature: the seasons, weather, flowers, creatures, and beautiful scenes of nature. In the final section, however, the question is raised as to whether these wonders will survive the devastating effects of climate change, global warming, and other threats to nature. Will humankind awaken to the need of caring for nature?

Download or read book Nature s Final Curtain Call written by S T Kimbrough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the performing arts, curtain calls transpire when performers return to the stage to be recognized by the audience for their performance. It may seem somewhat strange to speak of “nature’s curtain call,” but I am thinking of those amazing moments when with the passing of seasons Mother Nature presents a stunning performance, so to speak, for which we, the observers, are amazed: the appearance of spring’s flowers, the budding trees of spring, snow-white winter snow, huge flocks of Canadian geese flying south, the filling of dry waterbeds with late spring’s melting snow, the stunning colors of autumn’s leaves, the glorious colors of desert flowers, newborn animals of diverse species, and changing climates across the earth. There are cycles of nature that enable these wonders. The poems in this book address some of the wonders of nature: the seasons, weather, flowers, creatures, and beautiful scenes of nature. In the final section, however, the question is raised as to whether these wonders will survive the devastating effects of climate change, global warming, and other threats to nature. Will humankind awaken to the need of caring for nature?

Download or read book Nature s Sorrows and Nature s Joys written by S T Kimbrough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if many desirable things in nature were no longer there?—clean air, freshly grown vegetables, wildflowers, a waterfall, a green forest, spring rains, colors of flowers, a willow tree, fresh trout from a stream, autumn leaves, sunrise, sunset, mineral-rich farmland, etc. What if in a few years global warming and its devasting effects so damaged the earth, its atmosphere, and its resources, that many of these things were no longer possible? These poems address openly both the sorrows we face with forces that destroy nature and the things we celebrate in nature that provide much of humankind’s joy and sustenance. Some may ask appropriately, “What difference can a poet’s words make in correcting the paths of nature’s destruction down which humankind is traveling?” Certainly, words alone cannot save nature. Perhaps poetry can help to shape a new understanding of human failure, as well as to shape new visions of hope for the nature we know and are ever discovering.

Download or read book Small Creatures and Ordinary Places written by Allen M. Young and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2000-11-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Creatures and Ordinary Places reveals to us the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny dwellers in our own backyards. Young, a renowned expert on butterflies and cicadas of the American tropics, records in these charming essays his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through an urban woods near the Lake Michigan shore, or sits on his deck facing his backyard, or gazes at a field of corn stubble in autumn. He invites us to venture into our own yards, neighborhood parks, fields, and forests and pause there . . . to look and to listen. Small creatures have unique and interesting stories to tell us, Young points out. Their brief life cycles illustrate the intricate workings of a bigger clock driving the seasons, and they dominate the larger web of life in which humans are but a strand. Far too often they are ignored, taken for granted, reviled, or misunderstood. Even now, Young writes, as we move into a new millennium as a species and the technological pace of our existence further quickens, we can gain much from appreciating nature close at hand, despite how steadily it is being pushed aside.

Download or read book The Evolution Inside of Deaths written by Shawn Twyne and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most nonpoetic intellectual book you will ever read in your life about the natural order and existence of a man.

Download or read book Devil s Cave the Treasure Found written by John Nuzzolese and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devils Cave: The Treasure Found Circa 2000 is an amusing novel that has a touch of everything including romance, intrigue, murder, and surprising twists and turns that embroil the reader in suspense until the very end. Dr. Joseph Federico, Counseling Psychologist Realistic imagery gives Nuzzoleses readers the notion that the existence of such a buried treasure, as he describes it to be, certainly fits within the realm of possibilities. Arlette Szegfu, Artist (Trinity, Florida) The author gives the reader a front-row seat in actively participating up close to every riveting chapter. Its the complete novel everyones been searching for. Kenneth Tillman, Account Executive (Hallmark Cards) Devils Cave is a front-to-back page-turner that keeps the reader thinking, guessing, and totally absorbed. John Nuzzolese manages to use the dialogue of his characters in conveying food for thought to his readers. Ret. Captain William Cummings, Massachusetts State Police

Download or read book Letters written by C.J Frost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his second book titled Letters, C. J. Frost takes us on a journey of the heart and soul. A journey filled with love . . . hurt . . . passion . . . desire and loss. With a unique writing style that grips and tugs at our hearts, making us feel that these letters of love were written for us . . . to us . . . and about us.

Download or read book Women Rising written by Lark Edlim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A victim herself, Courtney Stillwell founded the feminist magazine Women Rising to create awareness about male violence. Every day in the world is a struggle between sexes, and her magazine tells all. It seems women must learn to deal with mens inherently aggressive nature because that nature cant be changed . . . or so Courtney believes, until she receives a call from one of her young writers. Ronnie wants to submit an article for publication that will reveal some startling news. Rumor has it a new biochemical weapon has been developed by the US Army that, when added to the drinking water of enemy fighters, will render them unaggressive and unwilling to fight. The drug has been field-tested on a vicious motorcycle gang with surprising results. Apparently, the drug causes men to lose all interest in women. Seeing the promise of an end to male violence, Courtney braves the wrath of the US government by bringing to light this top secret program. Her decision ignites a chain of events that causes Courtney to relive her dark past and question the very basis of her beliefs about men. She is now torn between her devotion to the magazines mission and the desire to finally find a good man to love.

Download or read book The Good Wine Served Last written by Thomas Hanrahan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is produced by me to publicly witness, share, acknowledge, give thanks to God, for the gift of life, for the gifts, talents, graces bestowed, received, promised, past, present and to come. Reborn, likened unto a child, released to explore, taste, sow new seeds, harvest new crops, embrace outwards, share authentically life. Truly new wine is never poured into old vessels. My Poetry herein hangs together, depicts, records, the changing Seasons of my life, from my anxious cries in Poem entitled Troubled Beginnings to the continuing transformative light of my Poem Catterpillar to Butterfly

Download or read book BUCK written by Wanda S. Miller-Berry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUCK, a fictional literary rendition in drama and suspense, is author and novelist Wanda S. Miller-Berry's profoundly exhilarating and truly riveting first published novel. Equipped with the skills of a well-seasoned and talented writer, she explores and captures through word in print the horrific reality in the life of a man named Buck, a disgruntled human soul plighted by the far-reaching chicaneries of human cruelty, deception, deprivation and degradation. She ultimately gives a keenly dramatic portrayal of Buck's undaunted and at times cataclysmic pursuit of autonomous liberation through courage and strength; manifested by his use of almost any means necessary to acquire and hold on to the inalienable right of all humankind to give and receive love.

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Download or read book The Political Dialogue of Nature and Grace written by Caitlin Smith Gilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discourse between nature and grace finds its linguistic and existential podium in the political condition of human beings. As Caitlin Smith Gilson shows, it is in this arena that the perennial territorial struggle of faith and reason, God and man, man and state, take place; and it is here that the understanding of the personal-as-political, as well as the political-as-personal, finds its meaning. And it is here, too, that the divine finds or is refused a home. Any discussion of “post-secular society” has its origins in this political dialogue between nature and grace, the resolution of which might determine not only a future post-secular society but one in which awe is re-united to affection, solidarity and fraternity. Smith Gilson questions whether the idea of pure nature antecedently disregards the fact that grace enters existence and that this accomplishes a conversion in the metaphysical/existential region of man's action and being. This conversion alters how man acts as an affective, moral, intellectual, social, political and spiritual being. State of nature theories, transformed yet retained in the broader metaphysical and existential implications of the Hegelian Weltgeist, are shown to be indebted to the ideological restrictedness of pure nature (natura pura) as providing the foremost adversary to any meaningful type of divine presence within the polis, as well as inhibiting the phenomenological facticity of man as an open nature.

Download or read book L M Montgomery and the Matter of Nature s written by Rita Bode and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.M. Montgomery's writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) repositions the Canadian author's relationship to nature in terms of current environmental criticism across several disciplines, introducing a fresh approach to her life and work. Drawing on a wide range of Montgomery's novels as well as her journals, this collection suggests that socio-ecological relationships encompass ideas of reciprocity, affiliation, autonomy, and the capacity for transformation in both the human and more-than-human worlds, and that these ideas are integral to Montgomery's vision and her literary legacy. Framed by the twin themes of materiality and interrelationships, essays by scholars of literature, law, animal studies, anthropology, and ecology examine place, embodiment, and difference in Montgomery's works and embrace the multiplicities embedded in the concept of nature. Through innovative critical approaches, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) opens up conversations about humans' interactions with nature and the material environment.

Download or read book Snail In My Prime written by Paul Durcan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of his first book in 1967, Paul Durcan has made satirical, celebratory and extraordinarily moving poetry out of his country's fortunes and misfortunes. His readings are legendary and each new collection, from his collaboration with Brain Lynch, Endsville (1967) to Daddy, Daddy (winner of the 1990 Whitbread Poetry Award), Crazy about Women (1991) and Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999) has borne out the truth of Ezra Pound's dictum that "literature is news that stays news". This book contains Durcan's own selection from his work. It is a literary milestone that has set the seal on his reputation as a poet of international standing.

Download or read book Life is a Dream written by Paul Durcan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan marks four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with this magnificent collection, which brings together for the first time the critically acclaimed poet's own choice of his work from his first book, Endsville (1967), to The Laughter of Mothers (2007). Life is a Dream represents the whole range of Durcan's writing - funny and subversive verse narratives and self-mocking poems of underachievement; poems celebrating love and sex or the lives of famous writers and artists; as well as tender, poignant verses commemorating the dead. Throughout his long career, Durcan has continued to make passionate and moving poetry out of his own and his country's misfortunes. He is by turns a surrealist, a mystic, an Irish comedian with perfect comic timing and an angry champion of the oppressed. Life is a Dream reaffirms the constant vision and artistic integrity of one of the most powerful, humane and original voices in modern poetry.

Download or read book Hearing by Jael written by Joyce Elbrecht and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993 the narrator Jael B. Juba treks south to revisit historic Tarragona, Florida, where her friend and mentor Elizabeth Harding Dumot had restored a decrepit mansion fifteen years earlier and released the wild energies of legend and contemporary social conflict before getting out of town, her work done. Juba's work is also one of restoration. She must return a long-hidden diary-- discovered by Harding in her work on the house--to its original site, a secret room about to be opened to the public for the first time. Here, the diarist Frances Boullet and her intimates once kept a vodun sanctuary for celebrating their multiracial heritage, burying their dead, resisting the terror of the conquest of the Americas, and pondering the knowledge they draw from their variously Creolized past. Through the sanctuary, the diary, and the novel flow tales of trading; piracy; colonization; slave life at a plantation; an Indian bride's miraculous legacy from the time of the Seminole Wars; Haitian uprisings and inter-American conflict; and murders, births, and hauntings in Reconstruction times and after. These tales, framed by Juba's and Harding's, stretch into a revisionary history that is joyously plural.

Download or read book Sex and the River Styx written by Edward Hoagland and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years. Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he'd been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist "could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist."