![]() ![]() This book was fun to write in so many ways! As the scenarios would play in my mind I realized the ever changing complexities that marriages goes through on a daily basis. Psalm 30:4-5Īfter a heart-to-heart with God during my everyday prayer session He gave me the idea to write a book of poetry exploring the different stages of marriage. For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. Sing to the LORD, all you godly ones! Praise his holy name. Table of ContentsĮxcerptLola’s Prayer Cocktail Introduction No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Ephesians 3: 20-21Ĭopyright © 2016 by Purposeful Changes FoundationĪll rights reserved. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. ![]() Lola’s Marriage Cocktail A Selection of Poems ![]()
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![]() ![]() Connection, play, practice, mastery, and recognition: as fundamental as these five concepts are, they hold the key to raising children with healthy self-esteem, moral awareness, and spiritual values. This inspiring book outlines a 5-step plan that all parents can use in giving their children the gift of happiness that will last a lifetime. What we do need is love, wonder, and the confidence to trust our instincts. Hallowell argues, we don’t need statistical studies or complicated expert opinions to raise children. Hallowell shares his findings with all of us who care about children.Īs Dr. Now, in The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, Dr. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard about what makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in. ![]() Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children-the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2, are disproportionately more likely to move to cities with the number two in their name, like Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. This can be verified by looking in the dentist professional registries.Īlso, people whose birthday is Feb. And if your name is Dennis or Denise you’re statistically more likely to become a dentist. : If our brains are working without us being consciously aware of it, how does that affect the choices we make?Įagleman: When people go through marriage registries, they find that people are more likely to marry other people whose first name begins with the first letter of their own first name, so Alex and Amy, Joel and Jenny, Donny and Daisy, these kind of things. And you may not have any conscious access to how the computation was made. ![]() And so a hunch is a way of summarizing vast quantities of data. It doesn’t need to know every bit of the background of American history and Chinese history, it just wants to know what’s happening right now. Essentially the conscious mind is like a newspaper headline in the sense that all it ever wants is the summary, it doesn’t need to know all the details of how something happened, it just wants to know, Obama’s in China or whatever it is. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Veronica roth arch conspirator![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the guest editor of the most recent The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. And neither is he.Ī brand-new novella from the New York Times bestseller of Divergent.Ī thrilling, profoundly moving science fiction retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone filled with inevitable doom, heart-break and one final act of courage.Ībout the Author: Veronica Roth is the New York Times best-selling author of Chosen Ones, the short story collection The End and Other Beginnings, the Divergent series, and the Carve the Mark duology. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.īut her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father’s vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage. Sign up for Veronicas newsletter to hear news, writing thoughts, book recommendations, etc. Her new novella, Arch-Conspirator, will be released in February. ![]() Without the genes of the fallen, humanity will end.Īntigone’s parents have been murdered, leaving her father’s throne vacant. She is also the guest editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. A razor-sharp and beautifully heart-rending reimagining of a classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. 'From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Claire legrand furyborn![]() When Eliana's mother is kidnapped, she teams up with a rebel faction to save her, only to discover she's now part of a thousand-year-long battle that connects her storyline to the legendary Queen Rielle's. ![]() ![]() A millennium later, Eliana's world is post-ruin and run by an evil emperor, but she works for it anyhow as a well-paid bounty hunter for the Empire. ![]() It turns out Rielle's powers deem her either the prophetic Sun Queen, who will save the world, or Blood Queen, who will destroy it (by handing it over to oppressed angels desperate to leave their realms). When assassins threaten her best friend (and secret beloved) Audric, the kingdom's crown prince, Rielle uses several elements at once to save him (and kill the mercenaries after him). Rielle lives during a time in which a select group have 1 out of 7 elemental powers, but she can master them all - something her father and tutor have been keeping secret from the royal crown. Then the chapters alternate between Rielle in the past and a young woman named Eliana 1,020 years later. The prologue starts off with Queen Rielle giving birth, pushing the baby into the hands of an 8-year-old angel-human hybrid named Simon (who can time travel), and then proceeding to destroy everything around her to get away from a telepathic angel, Corien. FURYBORN is Claire Legrand's first book in a fantasy series called Empirium, about two young women with supernatural powers beyond all measure in an alternative fantasy universe. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Get untamed journal![]() ![]() Untamed has been described as “a wake-up call” (Tracee Ellis Ross), “an anthem for women today” (Kristen Bell), and a book that “will shake your brain and make your soul scream” (Adele). With Untamed, Glennon Doyle-writer, activist, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People)-ignited a movement. ![]() I created Get Untamed: The Journal as an interactive experience in charting our own way-so we can let burn that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is.” -Glennon Doyle Every life is an unprecedented experiment. “We must stop asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. A bold, interactive guide to discovering and creating the truest, most beautiful lives, families, and world we can imagine, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Mess by keri smith![]() ![]() If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation. You have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the goods while they are in your possession. The goods do not need to be in their original packaging however in a sellable condition, and at your own cost and risk. 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To return an item(s) firstly write a covering letter with your order reference number and return it with your invoice and goods to: We do our best to ensure all of our customers enjoy a happy shopping experience with however occasionally you may need to return an item. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments A confederacy of dunces author![]() ![]() There are two stories here, one in the book and one about the book. Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole’s hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission – and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with… ![]() But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. ![]() Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city’s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. Released – 30th March 2000 (First Ed 1980)įormat – ebook, paperback, hardcover, audioĪ monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this is Ignatius J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As she builds a pro-feminist history of "Woman" in the Cite by revising the anti-feminist tradition, Christine concomitantly instructs her female audience in the ways they can remember and practice this new history. ![]() So Christine fashions an artificial memory system within the text that provides a means for women to develop an ethical memory practice, thereby disproving the anti-feminist tradition of women's vice and inconstancy. Since medieval rhetoric viewed memory as the path to ethical knowledge and wisdom, the individual memory had to be trained in order to be fully functional in ethical pursuits. Although ethical memory is vital to Christine de Pizan's rhetorical agenda, the fact that it is deeply embedded within the text of Le Livre de la Cite des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) has been little explored. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a community, the Seabird Island Band values communal pride and respect, and works to promote a community that is self-sufficient, self-governing, unified and educated. Seabird Island is a First Nations band government of the Stó:lō people, located in the Upper Fraser Valley region, just 3 km east of Agassiz, BC. In this article, we’ll be looking at Mailhot’s Heart Berries as an example of the power of Indigenous feminist narratives, and the ability of writing to create a path for healing.Īuthor of the bestselling 2018 memoir Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot is a First Nation Canadian writer and professor from the Seabird Island reservation near Chilliwack, British Columbia. Her 2018 debut publication Heart Berries: A Memoir presents a raw, honest portrayal of her struggles with intergenerational trauma, mental health, poverty and sexual abuse. Terese Marie Mailhot is a First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, and teacher from Seabird Island, British Columbia. ![]() ![]() Writing as a Form of Healing in Mailhot’s “Heart Berries” ![]() |