For many women, that Call occurs at midlife. We must answer the Call, or forever be lost in the Wasteland. It is a Call to rise from the half-sleep of our existence, and take up our part in the great unfolding of the world. “It is a Call to Life – a full, authentic life. If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging Slowly, spending more and more time outside, focusing on the wisdom of my senses rather than on what was going on inside my head, I began to weave myself back into the fabric of the Earth. I began to reacquaint myself with the soft animal object that was my body. I dug my hands into this strange foreign soil, and I began to grow things. I simply thought about what brought me joy, and I began to cultivate it. I had never thought of myself as being a particularly creative soul, but I discovered that creativity was a wide-ranging affair. Thread by thread, stitch by stitch, I began to knit myself back into being. Filled with images of women creating, women weaving the world into being, I took up knitting. And I found it: there in the old stories of my own native land, I found it. I was simply looking for some sense that women might have worth. Where did she vanish to, this great mother goddess? How did we women become so completely dispossessed? It wasn’t that I wanted to replace a male god with a female god it wasn’t that I wanted to find a religion at all. “Long before God the Father, there she was – God the Mother.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Marilyn monroe book goddessīefore moving on from the BBC, Summers became an Assistant Editor of the weekly program Panorama. He smuggled cameras into the then Soviet Union to obtain the only TV interview with dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov – when he was under house arrest, having just won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. A main focus, though, was on the momentous events of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States – such as on-the-spot reports, during 1968, on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Summers became the BBC's youngest Producer at 24, travelling worldwide and sending filmed reports from the United States, across Central and Latin America, and the conflicts in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Africa. Later, he went back to England to BBC's Television News and then the BBC's 24 Hours, a late evening current affairs show that brought viewers international coverage of events. He later worked at Granada TV's World in Action, the UK's first tabloid public affairs program, and following that he wrote the news for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Overseas Service. After studying modern languages at Oxford University, he began work in laboring jobs, later progressing to freelance reporting for London newspapers. Summers is an Irish citizen who has been working with Robbyn Swan for more than thirty years before she became his co-author and fourth wife. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and has written ten non-fiction books. Anthony Bruce Summers (born 21 December 1942) is an Irish author. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Marmee by sarah millerWorst of all, Margaret harbors the secret that these financial hardships are largely her fault, thanks to a disastrous mistake made over a decade ago which wiped out her family’s fortune and snatched away her daughters’ chances for the education they deserve. Money is tight and every month, her husband sends less and less of his salary with no explanation. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret’s four daughters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-now rest on her shoulders alone. In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of readers. Any difficulties are quickly smoothed over and details are avoided whenever possible. The entire book is pretty wild, over-the-top and ridiculous, mostly in a good way. I don’t think it would have wide appeal for adults, but I can easily imagine middle grade readers loving it. This really is a cotton candy book, fun and entertaining with no real substance or depth. Demerara also happens to be a secret agent for the MI6, the British secret service, and needs Oz, Lily and their neighbor Caydon to use their latent magical ability to help on a secret mission. One of the brothers, by virtue of an immortality chocolate, is still alive and intent on stealing secrets his brothers left behind, to sell to a terrorist group. Demerara tells them about the history of the chocolate factory, founded by three brothers who combined chocolate and magic. When Oz and Lily, eleven-year-old twins, and their family move into an abandoned chocolate factory, Lily is delighted to meet Demerara, a magical cat. The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate Saunders is a middle grade novel about magical chocolate-but it reminded me more of cotton candy, light and fluffy and insubstantial, However, when a family tragedy forces her to return home, Ashley can't escape the notice of Drew Runous- local Game Warden, reclusive mountain man, bear wrestler, philosopher, and everyone's favorite guy. Now she escapes life daily via her Amazon kindle one-click addiction. She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago. Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston's preferred coping strategy is escapism. There are three things you need to know about Ashley Winston: 1) She has six brothers and they all have beards, 2) She is a reader, and 3) She knows how to knit. However, when a family tragedy forces her to return home, Ashley can't escape the notice of Drew Runous- local Game Warden. I feel like my life is just a constant cycle of finally getting past the book I was obsessing about and then immediately finding another book to obsess about. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough? The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.Īs the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Or she did, once.Īt the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. 5/29/2023 0 Comments On the come up by angie thomasKnowing what she does for 'This Is Us,' I'm excited for everyone to see what she does with 'On The Come Up,'" Thomas said. "For me, it was one of those times where I know she was the right person because everything worked out in such a beautiful way. She and Oyegun are fans of each other's work, and Oyegun messaged her personally to tell her she got the job, she said. Thomas said the studio, Fox 2000, picked Kay Oyegun, but she was on board with the decision. I love looking at it from that different lens and bringing stories to life that way as well," she said. "As a writer and author, I have all these ideas that I can take into the film process and expand on, maybe in ways that I wasn't able to do with the book. You get to give input on a creative level in a way that is organic, but it also shapes the way the film is going to be (and) the way the film is going to be marketed," Thomas said. "What I love about producing is that you get the insider scoop. The author said now that she is moving into a producer role, her goal is to bring as many stories of young, black people to life on screen as possible. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Johnson (in civil rights)-to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders. In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely-Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Īre leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? 5/28/2023 0 Comments Stormbreaker seriesThe company added that the weapon, packed with “shape charge jets, fragmentation, and blast charge effects,” can destroy a tank. The munition’s multimode seeker allows it “to see through fog, smoke and rain to glide over 45 miles (72 kilometers) and strike at a fixed or moving target on land or at sea,” Raytheon claims. Photo: William Lewis/US Air Force ‘Smart’ Munition An F-15E Strike Eagle carrying StormBreaker bombs. The 200-pound (91 kilograms) air-to-ground munition achieved initial operating capability on the F-15E Strike Eagle this year, with plans of integration with additional manned and unmanned platforms, including the F/A-18 Super Hornet. The tests are part of the weapon’s integration process with the fifth-generation aircraft. Raytheon revealed that the weapon will now enter the capability testing phase. The final of the seven-test series saw the F-35 naval version test drop two StormBreaker munitions within 35 minutes of each other at. The US Navy recently wrapped up its StormBreaker smart weapon drop test series from an F-35B fighter. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Trigun by Dark Horse ComicsVash is occasionally joined by a priest, Nicholas D. The series is often humorous in tone, but at the same time it involves very serious character development and especially in later episodes it becomes quite emotionally intense. Vash does not clearly remember the destruction of July, and only wants “love and peace,” as he puts it though he is a gunfighter of inhuman skill, he uses his weapons only to save lives wherever he can.Īs the series progresses, more is gradually learned about Vash’s mysterious history and the history of the human civilization on Gunsmoke, the desert planet the series is set on. Much of the damage attributed to “Vash” is caused by the activities of bounty hunters who are after the 60,000,000,000$$ (sixty billion “double dollars”) reward on Vash’s head for the destruction of a city called July. |
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