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Today I dreamed...and it somehow seemed An endless dream filled with thoughts of you. When working the midnight shift for the Baltimore City Police Department in the early seventies, Lawerence Mize began to fill his nights writing letters and poems to his wife, Sandy. In 2009, Lawerence was diagnosed with coronary artery disease. As Lawerence contemplated his life, his thoughts drifted back to those lonely nights patrolling the streets of Baltimore and the words he wrote for his wife. Now Lawerence has taken his writings from loose pieces of paper and old notebooks and letters and collected them in Thoughts of You: Poems on Life, Love, and Family. Newer poems written after Lawerence's diagnosis round out the collection, revealing a bittersweet, mature perspective on a life spent with a loving wife and family. A touching tribute to his wife and a powerful meditation on health, love, family, life, and death, Thoughts of You captures a magical moment in one man's life: the beginning of a love that would last a lifetime.
In addition to the aforementioned, Mr. Banker spent 25 years working in the banking industry as a commercial banker making loans to real estate developers and other commercial borrowers. His banking experience also included employment as an assistant bank examiner for three bank regulatory agencies. This publication is Mr. Banker’s first. It includes his thoughts relating to things he has done, wanted to do, observations and experiences throughout his travels around the world. The people he has met while traveling and the things he has seen have only encouraged him to do more on his great adventure called life.
“Phil gets the emotional foundations of his poetry from his varied life experiences as an educator, contractor, entrepreneur, and businessman through the disappointments and joys of everyday life, including of course, love.” “....True and high regard for his words, his sentiments and very direct, original voice.” —Bree, Editor, Green Panda Press “ Sometimes saintly, sometimes naughty, Phil describes what we all have felt at one time or another.” —Ola, President, G & O Inc. “The language of Phil’s poetry tumbles over itself like a pebbly mountain stream, both playful and refreshing.” —Phyllis B., Cleveland
The poetry shared throughout these writings of poems will entice the reader, to want more. The poems will reflect on your life experiences, the experiences of an individual you know as family, friends, co-workers and that person that sits next to you in church on Sundays. The four chapters, Praise His Name, Romantic Stuff, Friends and Family and Open Mic will crave your desire to read and discuss these poems with family and friends.
"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.
"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." —David Brooks, New York Times How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload—and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.
Scripture reveals a God who meets us where we are, not where we pretend to be. No More Faking Fine is your invitation to get honest with God through the life-giving language of lament. If you've ever been given empty clichés during challenging times, you know how painful it is to be misunderstood by well-meaning people. When life hurts, we often feel pressure--from others and ourselves--to keep it together, suck it up, or pray it away. But Scripture reveals a God who lovingly invites us to give honest voice to our emotions when life hits hard. For most of her life, Esther Fleece Allen believed she could bypass the painful emotions of her broken past by shutting them down altogether. She was known as an achiever and an overcomer on the fast track to success. But in silencing her pain, she robbed herself of the opportunity to be healed. Maybe you've done the same. Esther's journey into healing began when she discovered that God has given us a real-world way to deal with raw emotions and an alternative to the coping mechanisms that end up causing more pain. It's called lament--the gut-level, honest prayer that God never ignores, never silences, and never wastes. No More Faking Fine is your permission to lament, taking you on a journey down the unexpected pathway to true intimacy with God. Drawing from careful biblical study and hard-won insight, Esther reveals how to use God's own language to come closer to him as he leads us through our pain to the light on the other side, teaching you that: We are robbing ourselves of a divine mystery and a divine intimacy when we pretend to have it all together God does not expect us to be perfect; instead, he meets us where we are There is hope beyond your heartache, disappointment, and grief Like Esther, you'll soon find that when one person stops faking fine, it gives everyone else permission to do the same.
This bright tale of a girl determined to escape a negative thought that keeps following her around encourages mindfulness and equips kids with the tools they need to successfully manage their emotions. Have you ever had an unwelcome thought that you just couldn't get rid of, no matter how hard you tried to push it away? In Catching Thoughts, a girl is plagued by an unwanted thought. No matter what she does--ignore it, yell at it, cry about it--the thought won't go away. Frustrated and discouraged, she finally looks that bad thought in the face and says, "Hello." At last, she is able to notice other more beautiful, positive thoughts all around her. As she catches hold of new thoughts, the girl discovers she can fill her mind with whatever she chooses. For every child who has been weighed down by sadness or anxiety, this story teaches kids how to acknowledge unwanted thoughts, show them compassion, then actively replace them with positive thoughts instead. Catching Thoughts is a quiet, thoughtful story that teaches readers how to practice mindfulness, focusing on thoughts that bring beauty, joy, and calm into their lives.
We all wish to be more mindful, engaged, present, loving the life we are living, but is this possible and how? You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness makes the journey into a mindful way of being a profoundly simple one, both to understand and to access. It is a book for those who want to truly know the power of mindfulness to transform their experience of life. '...There are thousands of books out there to help us combat our inner self-destructive voice... if I could go back in time and read only one book on the subject, this is it.' Joe Pasquale, Comedian and Actor
I observed no human face other than my own and corresponded with no one this Christmas.