Download or read book The Healing Basket written by Clarissa Rudolph-Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Healing Basket, set in northern New Mexico in the 1970's, is about an older woman, Nevaeh, and a young girl, Mary Grace, who befriend one another. Nevaeh teaches Mary Grace how to cope with sorrow by telling stories about mementoes she keeps in a basket. Together, they celebrate their time together and learn that we exist through memories left behind. Mary Grace accepts the things she cannot change as an opportunity to build her hope, her faith, her strength, and her understanding about why she is on this journey. Nevaeh helps Mary Grace see the spirit of our loved ones in special moments that are embraced and remembered. When Nevaeh shares the essence of her life in The Healing Basket Mary Grace learns her greatest lesson. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Ultimately, love never dies.
Download or read book Beach written by Josie Iselin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved author Josie Iselin's collaged images of the treasures we live with as reminders of the beach—from sea glass to driftwood, shells to stones—evoke the timeless elements of sand, ocean, and refreshing sea air. In her writings, Iselin shares thoughts on the varied ways we experience the beach while also providing fascinating insights into the scientific ecosystem of the ocean, such as how the oyster constructs its shell and the ways in which algae is classified. At once an exploration and a meditation, Beach: A Book of Treasure will delight and inspire anyone who values the unique environment of the seashore and the myriad wonders found therein.
Download or read book Pandora s Picnic Basket The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods written by Anne Brontë and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to look at all the issues involved in GM (genetically modified food) technology in a clear and dispassionate way. Alan McHughen surveys the technology that makes GM food possible, assesses the risk of health and environmental dangers and the regulatory and labelling processes in force to protect the consumer. Question and answer boxes and case histories, and the author's easy writing style make this an essential purchase for all those interested in the debate. - ;Are you concerned about fish genes in tomatoes? Worried that brazil nut genes in soybeans can result in potentially lethal allergic reactions? That rapeseed plants bred to be resistant to herbicides could become uncontrollable superweeds? You are not alone. The issue of genetically modified foods has fast become one of the most debated of recent years, with scientists and companies seeking to develop the technology on one side, and consumer groups and environmentalists on the other. However, in spite of the great heat generated by the debate, there is very little real information on the subject, either about the technologies in use or about the regulatory processes established to approve the processes and the products. This book sets out to explain, in clear and direct language, the technologies underlying so-called genetically modified food, and compares them with other "natural" methods of plant breeding and production. The author then looks at the safeguards in place from regulators around the world and asks whether these are sufficient. The question of labelling, held by some to be an obvious way out for concerned consumers, is examined, and the honesty and usefulness of some of these labels addressed. The book then looks at issues of real concern, particularly environmental issues, and ways in which a consumer can seek to avoid GMOs if they so choose. In each chapter, key topics are addressed through question and answer boxes. Real case histories illustrate the development and regulation of GMOs, and by the end of the book the reader will be able to make an informed choice about whether to support or challenge this technology, the products of which are increasingly pervasive. -
Download or read book 100 Hugs written by Sandy Gingras and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are times in life when all you need to find solace is a small gesture of consolation. 100 Hugs, a collection of everyday comforts, offers such solace. Each hug is a reminder to slow down and take comfort in the little things, from indulging in warm cookies and milk to watching fireflies on a summer evening. Sandy Gingras’s “hugs” are the beacons of light that shine through the fog of everyday life. Sandy Gingras’s uplifting words illustrated with her original watercolor art create pretty little “hugs.” These hugs are perfect to give as a gift or to keep for your own personal growth. They are nourishment for the body, mind, and soul, reminding you to take a step back and become that flourishing version of you again.
Download or read book Comfort Prayers written by June Cotner and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thy fate is the most common fate of all. Into each life some rain must fall." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This simple quote illustrates the truism that no one is immune from challenges in life. As a gift book or self-purchase, Comfort Prayers is a collection of prayers and poems that offers solace and encouragement. At different times in life, everyone encounters sorrow, adversity, or a sense of being overwhelmed. Consider Comfort Prayers that motivating friend, wise inner voice, or soothing balm you can turn to when times get tough. The words within are the sage thoughts of those who have survived their own trials and then eloquently imparted their wisdom in the form of a prayer, poem, or prose. Carefully chosen from more than 4,000 submissions from writers worldwide and more than 1,000 inspirational books, this timeless collection compiled by author June Cotner will bring hope, healing, and encouragement to its readers. Like June's successful inspirational collection Graces, this book is composed of 80 percent material from contemporary writers and 20 percent from classic and famous writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, William Wordsworth, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The result is a thoughtful collection that will calm the soul and lead to a path of healing and recovery.
Download or read book The Burn Basket written by Kenneth Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of hope to be found among the ashes of a California wildfire. This is a story for youth affected by wildfires. It is about evacuations, return, and the recovery of landscapes and a young girl that goes on adventures with an uncle. Along the way they find burned landscapes and homes, ancient surviving redwoods, bow drills, dance, music, and abundance from the Earth in the aftermath of a devastating fire. It's more than a book. Each chapter has a drawing with clues that lead to a video. The videos are short musical interludes of the doodle creations found in the book.
Download or read book The Foxfire Book written by Foxfire Fund, Inc. and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1972-02-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. This classic debut volume of the acclaimed series covers a diverse array of crafts and practical skills, including log cabin building, hog dressing, basketmaking, cooking, fencemaking, crop planting, hunting, and moonshining, as well as a look at the history of local traditions like snake lore and faith healing.
Download or read book Mabel McKay written by Greg Sarris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight—the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beautifully narrated, Weaving the Dream initiates the reader into Pomo culture and demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by the Smithsonian. Hearing Mabel McKay's life story, we see that distinctions between material and spiritual and between mundane and magical disappear. What remains is a timeless way of healing, of making art, and of being in the world. Sarris’s new preface, written expressly for this edition, meditates on Mabel McKay’s enduring legacy and the continued importance of her teachings.
Download or read book Healing After Loss written by Martha W. Hickman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss. Daily reflections to find solace in our own lives, and comfort in the connection of sharing these meditations with countless others. After the focus on planning and outpouring of love from family and friends in the immediate aftermath following the loss of a loved one, we are left to enter a new version of our lives where someone important is missing. For days, months, years, the pain of the loss can crash in all at once. It is tempting to push that wave of grief back and soldier on with our new lives, but the loss will never lose its controlling power if we don’t find the courage and love to face it. Meditating on the loss, along with the rush of love that comes with it, gives us a chance to rejoice in the life that was shared, and to look forward in which memories of our loved ones continue to bless us. The short, poignant meditations given here follow the course of the year, but it is not a necessity to follow them chronologically. They will strengthen, inspire, and give comfort for as long as they are needed.
Download or read book Scrap Basket Bounty written by Kim Brackett and published by That Patchwork Place. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with projects that make it a snap to get scrappy, best-selling author Kim Brackett reveals a fun surprise waiting in these repeat-block designs: each pattern comes with two additional block arrangements. Sew the blocks, then rotate them this way and that for an abundance of possibilities. Sixteen patterns, three setting options per quilt, 48 projects in all - just choose a background fabric and throw your favorite colors into the mix to start the scrap-basket fun!
Download or read book Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings written by Ellen McVicker and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings is a listen-to or read-along book for children. It is a resource that can be give as a gift and used to educate and support any child who is facing the cancer of a loved one. The story line, as told through the eyes of a child, lends itself to a simple and clear understanding of cancer. Most important, however, is the lesson that teaches children to realize the power they have to be an active and integral part of a loved one's cancer journey.
Download or read book Letters From My Mom Long Since Gone written by Clarissa Rudolph-Hastings and published by Trilogy Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Grace joyfully awaits the birth of her twin baby girls. Upon receiving a phone call from her dad and after entering the hospital emergency room, she learns her mom has been in a fatal car accident. Grief slowly penetrates her heart. Dealing with the funeral and having survived a difficult pregnancy, she experiences the stages of grief along with post-partum depression. While reminiscing on good memories collected in her hope chest, Mary Grace discovers unopened letters from her mom. She anticipates reading the letters, which contain her mom's most intimate thoughts. As she reads through each letter, she hears her mom's voice, and her mind is filled with hope - her heart, with love. She begins to see her life transform from a daughter into a mother - like seeds of faith growing into a white rose in full bloom.
Download or read book Healing Grounds written by Liz Carlisle and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that’s meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it’s meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn, beans, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the “American wars” in Southeast Asia. In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This, Carlisle shows, is the true regenerative agriculture – not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people. Cultivating this kind of regenerative farming will require reckoning with our nation’s agricultural history—a history marked by discrimination and displacement. And it will ultimately require dismantling power structures that have blocked many farmers of color from owning land or building wealth. The task is great, but so is its promise. By coming together to restore these farmlands, we can not only heal our planet, we can heal our communities and ourselves.
Download or read book Among the Echoes written by Aly Martinez and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name was Dr. Erica Hill. I was a victim, then a witness, and then I ceased to exist altogether. I may still be breathing, but stripped of my identity, I have long since stopped living. I am invisible, and my life depends on my ability to stay in the shadows. But he sees me. Slate Andrews is the embodiment of everything I have been taught to avoid. He's rich and famous, and one image of him with a woman would earn millions for any paparazzi lucky enough to snap it. He has vowed to protect me with his life, yet he exposes me with his every breath. I should be stronger and walk away. I should disappear. But I'm terrified he would come after me. I'm on the run, determined not to take him down with me but absolutely unable to let him go. My name is Riley Peterson...at least for today. *Among The Echoes is a stand alone novel which contains material that may be offensive to some readers. Including sexual abuse, graphic language, and adult situations. Intended for readers 18+.*
Download or read book The Healing Kitchen written by Ellen Michaud and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 350 ways to unlock the curative powers of foods are presented in this down-to-earth guide to physical well-being. Backed by scientific studies, the pragmatic tips can turn any kitchen into the preventative and healing center of the home. Organized by how foods are stored, such as the Tea Tin, the Vegetable Bin, the Breadbox, and the Freezer, cutting-edge information on 120 different foods is presented. From information on virus-fighting apricots and natural anxiety-relieving tea to stomachache-quelling honey and natural cleaning products, this reference explains why and how these everyday ingredients heal the mind, body, and spirit. Consumer-oriented information on buying, storing, and using each food is offered, as well as 165 recipes that detail simple and delicious ways to create a healthy diet using these powerfoods.
Download or read book How to Make a Basket written by Jazz Money and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Butterfly Basket written by Cynthia Waldman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's bad enough that Mama died and the bank man stole the family house in Chicago, but now eleven-year-old Sara Constance O'Day is being forced to live on her grandparents' California ranch. Coyote Creek Ranch is as different from the big city as the moon is from the earth. Sara hates the brown emptiness, the heat, the prickles, and the coyotes' howls. She's terrified of the venomous snakes and hungry mountain lions. But mostly she's afraid of facing Mama's death and the feelings she has hidden deep inside. A Kawaiisu Indian girl named Lena, a beautiful butterfly basket, and the wild spirit of Coyote Canyon hold the answer to all of Sara's problems, but only is she will listen to what they have to say. A novel for young people ages eight and up, as well as for their parents and teachers, THE BUTTERFLY BASKET is a story of the healing power of friendship, woven with strands of authentic Native American culture, and filled with the natural beauty of America's Southwest.
