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THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS transports readers to the majestic landscapes and hard Native American lives of the desert Southwest and into the embrace of a way of looking at the world that seems almost like revelation. Born to a storytelling Native mother and a roughneck, song-singing cowboy father, Nasdijj has lived on the jagged-edged margins of American society, yet hardship and isolation have only brought him greater clarity--and a gift for language that is nothing short of breathtaking. Nasdijj tells of his adopted son, Tommy Nothing Fancy, of the young boy's struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome, and of their last fishing trip together. It is a heartbreaking story, written with great power and a diamondlike poetry. But whether Nasdijj is telling us about his son, about the chaotic, alternately harrowing and comical life he led with his own parents, or about the vitality and beauty of Native American culture, his voice is always one of searching honesty, wry humor, and a nearly cosmic compassion. While Nasdijj struggles with his impossible status as someone of two separate cultures, he also remains a contradiction in a larger sense: he cares for those who often shun him, he teaches hope though he often has none for himself, and he comes home to the land he then must leave. THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS is the memoir of a man who has survived a hard life with grace, who has taken the past experience of pain and transformed it into a determination to care for the most vulnerable among us, and who has found an almost unspeakable beauty where others would find only sadness. This is a book that will touch your soul.
The Blood Running Through my Veins began as a quest to discover the family roots of Elvin and his Wife Valerie, but soon blossomed into a rich discovery of a family's roots that would reveal family connections that extended all the way back to the days of slavery. The book takes you on a journey from the small town of Montevallo Alabama where the author was born and raised to the Plantation fields of Autauga County Alabama where his family roots began. The reader will discover strong family bonds in the worst conditions, black homeownership in a time when it was not popular, and Blood that runs through the veins of the author that are both Slave and Slave Owner. This book is a must for anyone interested in family history and will serve as a guide for those wishing to trace their own family roots.
By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story -- a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. In this memoir, complete with child soldiers, unspeakable violence, and eventual salvation, we witness the journey of an East Coast member of the notorious Bloods gang coming to terms with the lost boy he was and the transformation into the man he wants to become. Unlike the child warriors of Mozambique and Sierra Leone, gang members and the wars they wage are the United States' homegrown nightmare. Lacking protection, support, or any alternatives, Dashaun Morris is forced into battle for the first time at age eleven, in the streets of Phoenix, when a friend's older brothers put him in a car filled with 40s and weed smoke, put a gun in his hands, then make him point it at the men on the corner and squeeze the trigger. The targets are Crips, of course, and, as Morris writes, "In the darkness of the streets, my childhood is murdered.... I am reborn -- a gangster." In this haunting, violent memoir, Morris takes us through an American childhood turned grotesquely inside out. In the fourth grade, he loses his first friend in a drive-by shooting. By high school he is the man, a champion on the football field by day and a reputable banger on his 'hood turf by night. Living the life of a gang banger, Morris does it all -- drug dealing, jacking, and continuing the aimless war with rival gang members -- almost opening fire one night on a close friend, a cheerleader, as she hangs out with young men he mistakes for Crips. He eventually makes it to college on a football scholarship, but on the verge of being drafted by the NFL, Morris can't escape his gang-banging mentality and gets caught up in crimes that snatch away all future hopes. Sitting in a prison cell, he anticipates the birth of his first child while counting the friends he's buried. War of the Bloods in My Veins is part of Morris's redemption, a cry to his brothers that gang life is mental illness. It is a rare and brutally honest look into the relentless storm of abandonment, violence, crime, death, and the endless rush toward the complete and utter self-annihilation that plagues the lives of the young "soldiers" who die every day in our streets.
The House of Ferro has dominated the city-state of Verona since its creation, made mighty by their magia del ferro, financial acumen, and ties to the imperial throne. The House of Ishikawa arrived on Verona's shores a few years later, made powerful and wealthy by way of their rare, priceless magia d'acqua. A short time later, murder and vengeance exploded into a feud that has lasted for generations-and by decree of Hardegin-principe, will end now or else. Royal decrees cannot so easily quell generations of hate and bloodshed, but ancient feuds cannot stop love. Determined to be together, young Ferro Carac and Ishikawa Arata decide to run away and leave their families behind. But on the night they depart, Arata is murdered, and Carac is wrongfully blamed for it, betrayed by everyone he trusted. Fifteen years later, Carac is long dead of disease while in prison, and Verona is abuzz with nervous excitement over the betrothal of Ferro Selinah to Ishikawa Naoki. Unhappy with the pending marriage, Naoki spends most of his time drinking and sleeping. On the way home from a bar one night, accompanied by the sister come to drag him home, they are attacked by a bandit-and saved by an intriguing man who goes by the name of Dante...
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This book is the beginning of me. you will see my Depression, my Rape, and my Recovery. You are holding my aching heart in your hands as you finish this book. You just witnessed me rip myself open and sew myself back together in birthing this new part of me that will continue to carry life through these pages.
Cultural Writing. Middle Eastern Studies. Religious Studies. ASHURA is largely made up of photographs or video stills of Ashura, the ceremony of self-flagellation and bloodletting performed by some Twelver Shi'ites to mark their wait for the coming of a twelfth imam. Blood literally soaks these men, the floor, the street, their sneakers, and Toufic's lens does not blink. Meanwhile his thoughts on the cultural and philosophic implications of the ritual, strangely cool and confident against a background of such ecstatic religious fervor, reframes everything from film to Islam to Toufic himself. Toufic writes: "Al-Husayn, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad and the son of the first Shi'ite imam, 'Ali, was slaughtered alongside many members of his family in the desert in 680. This memory is torture to me. But, basically, one can say "this memory is torture to me" of every memory, since each reminiscence envelops at some level the memory of the origin of memory..."
Through our veins blood flows rapidly with life. And in the structure of D.N.A family is born....Mr. Synn also known as Pete or Sinister from different peers of his, heart pumped blood with street hustle from the love of his deceased father and dead uncles, who indulged in the fast life, late night, fast money, hustler life. Born and raised on the Westside of Atlanta, Mr. Synn lived and loved the ghetto of his birth, until the demise of his heart crumbled. Being the father of two sons, Dolla and Flip, the keys was laid out to open many doors as they heart desired. Lost in the realm of crime, days was sunshine with nights of rain. Lightning thundered the streets with pain as blood money was calculated on a money machine. Dolla was on a mission with his crime partner DJ as Flip stared on. What choice would Flip make? Blood money was soggy and wet to the touch. Flip was fourteen and growing up fast with his best friend Chase and younger friend Quan. Flip attended Booker T. Washington high school like his brother Dolla, which was a good choice his father told him. Hearing voices and growing up in luxury had Flip swaying like a pendulum, but with Dolla attitude for his well being, luxury was all he needed. What decision will Flip make for the family? It's a dirty world, but it still spin.... Blood Money. "Anything I put my hands on, I can flip....." FlipThe game through generation of gamers is still the same. Only it get younger and younger. Through a young mind, your nutured to bloom with nourishes and nutrients in life. "Count that money. Count that money...."Flip.Brother from another mother. Family in the streets are extended. Love travels far and wide, narrow and short, up and under, out and through, to hearts all around. "Bring it back, I'll double it."Flip."I got money left over, to add to it."Flip."Baby. Momma loves you...."A mother cries.