![]() Our weaknesses become our strengths, the source of our compassion for others and the basis of our awakened nature. They then become manifestations of wisdom. The only way to work with them is to encounter them directly, enter their world, and transform them. In The Fruitful Darkness, Halifax writes:īoth Buddhism and shamanism are based in the psychological grammar that says we cannot eliminate the so-called negative forces of afflictive emotions. “The book really helped me finish the album,” Hall said in an interview. ![]() While writing an album reflecting on the wisdom he’d gained navigating a period of hardship, Halifax’s message was the very guidance Hall needed. The Fruitful Darkness, published over 20 years ago, is a deep study of shamanism, Buddhism, tribal wisdom, and the connections between. Halifax’s reflections on the Buddhist path and the shamanic journey immediately spoke to Hall’s own difficult walk through darkness - the fruits of which he knows well. ![]() ![]() In the middle of recording his latest album, singer-songwriter Trevor Hall picked up Zen Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax’s book, The Fruitful Darkness. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Anna lives her literary life as her real one, suffering from a kind of schizophrenia as the characters in her books collide with her life in their desire to see the light. ![]() Hans works in a factory and has a sister, Clara, a misunderstood girl who is infatuated with this guy who rides a motorbike.But, above all, this is the story of Anna Flieder, who decides to write a more biographic-style novel and her inspiration takes the form of the man who abandoned her all those years ago."The story shows the process of creation of a literary work (.) It's a novel aimed at those who like to read, those who let themselves be absorbed into the reading because it requires a lot of imagination and there are lots of things which are just hinted at." -La Mañana"This book tells the story of Anna, a writer, and the world and lives of the people around her. In the present Berta is grown up, and the desire to meet her father, who she has only ever seen in a photograph, increases as her relationship with her boyfriend reaches crisis point. Anna is a middle-aged writer who has bought up her daughter alone. ![]() ![]() Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand. One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their heads touching, their limbs tangled. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. To Abdullah, Pari - as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named - is everything. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. ![]() Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. You want a story and I will tell you one.Afghanistan, 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() The patterns in brown's book give leaders an understanding about how to be strategic during this time of great upheaval. (I learned about patterns in a Permaculture Design Course I took a few years ago.) City Planners use The Death and LIfe of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs to help understand what makes neighborhoods attractive and safe. Architects use A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (et al) to understand how to design human-friendly buildings. Patterns can also be used to understand the human experience. spirals, waves, branches), we notice that similar patterns can evolve in animal, mineral or vegetable. When we study the patterns that appear in nature (e.g. Thinking in terms of patterns can expand our understanding. These are not "principles" like the UUA's seven principles, but more like patterns that can be used to understand and approach today's challenges. ![]() In the book, brown proposes nine principles to help guide emergent thinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had it on my list for my 2016 365 Days of YA Challenge but wasn’t able to get around to it. Afterwards, it was a series I saw everywhere. I’m always up for a good retelling and this one sounded fabulous. It was the title and cover that first grabbed my attention when I was browsing the new additions at my library. ![]() Source & Format: Public Library–Hardcover (eBooks for novellas) Publication Dates: April 2014 – March 2017 Genre: Young Adult, Retelling, Fantasy, Magic # of Books: 4 (Dorothy Must Die, The Wicked Will Rise, Yellow Brick War, The End of Oz) I’ve been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. My name is Amy Gumm – and I’m the other girl from Kansas. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. There’s still a yellow brick road – but even that’s crumbling. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. ![]() But I never expected Oz to look like this. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero.īut when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado – taking you with it – you have no choice but to go along, you know? Synopsis for Dorothy Must Die (from Goodreads): Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() È autrice bestseller di «New York Times», «USA Today» e «Wall Street Journal». Se vuole davvero portare a termine il suo incarico e lasciarsi definitivamente il passato alle spalle, Nadia dovrà trovare il modo di tenerlo a bada e, soprattutto, ignorare il battito del suo cuore che si fa sempre più insistente. Per questo vuole che lei lo aiuti a smascherare il più grande scandalo della città.Įd è così che Nadia, cercando di infiltrarsi nel giro degli uomini più ricchi di Boston, conosce l'affascinante Henry Lexington, bello quanto insopportabile. Tuttavia, quando il suo nuovo capo scopre il suo segreto, comincia a ricattarla: intende infatti sfruttare la popolarità di Nadia per far salire gli ascolti. Sicura e indipendente, ha chiuso con un passato di cui si vergogna e si sta costruendo con determinazione un futuro scintillante. ![]() “Nadia Ray è il volto della televisione mattutina di Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I am grateful to the Lugosi Estate, artist El Garing and art director Kerry Gammill for bringing their passion to this project.” ![]() “There have been great Dracula graphic novels, but to unite Bram Stoker’s novel in a faithful adaptation with the definitive Dracula in the form of screen icon Bela Lugosi is a dream come true,” said Robert Napton, Senior Vice President of Legendary Comics. Aided by a group of brave men, Professor Van Helsing arrives on the scene to take on the Vampire Prince in the ultimate battle between the forces of light and dark! There, he encounters two women, Lucy and Mina, who become the targets of his dark obsession. In the late 19th Century, Dracula, an ancient Transylvanian vampire, moves to England to find fresh blood and spread his evil contagion. LOS ANGELES, Octo– Legendary Comics, in partnership with the Lugosi Estate and Kerry Gammill, announced Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a new graphic novel starring iconic film and stage actor Bela Lugosi, with art by El Garing, set for release in late 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. ![]() The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. ![]() It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It almost felt as if the author was trying to drive home the lesson through her writing that HOMOPHOBIA IS BAD. There was no subtlety to anything any of the characters said, it was pretty strictly ‘how can me loving another girl be so wrong when it feels so good and natural?’ type stuff. The dialogue made me cringe a little at times, it was so didactic. ![]() Then years later they run into each other again, and they decide not to let anything get in the way of their one last chance to be happy together. As time goes by, they both marry men and try to move on with their lives. Unfortunately, a poorly timed kiss in front of Mari’s house guarantees their separation. So, Hazel and Mari meet as teenagers at a bingo game and pretty soon they’re head over heels in love with each other. What I had problems with was the dialogue and plot. One thing I did like about this book was the illustrations, they were cartoony but in a good way and they brought a lot of life to the characters. ![]() I think it has a lot of potential, and if they had developed the two heroines’ character more and written a story that felt less naïve and childish this could have been a really great graphic novel, even ground-breaking. I really like the premise of two elderly black women who fell in love but were torn apart by prejudice getting a second chance to be with each other. I read Bingo Love in one sitting, but not because it was a particularly compelling read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And we were going out to dinner that night with various members of family. I remember it vividly for a few reasons, one of which was because it was my birthday. It was the culmination of a week or so of unrelenting heat. I’d say almost all Victorians capable of it remember what they were doing on the day that came to be known as Black Saturday – the 7th of February, 2009. The command of fire has defined and sustained us as a species – understanding its abuse will define our future.Ī powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper’s trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers. It is also the story of fire in this country, and of a community that owed its existence to that very element. The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the strange puzzle of his mind. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn’t know. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs. On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. ![]() |