Book Description
These days, everyone seems to race through the day multitasking at breakneck speed, with no time for quiet prayer. This book offers quick, imaginative ways to help busy people make prayer an integral part of their days.
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Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
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Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9780819226570
These days, everyone seems to race through the day multitasking at breakneck speed, with no time for quiet prayer. This book offers quick, imaginative ways to help busy people make prayer an integral part of their days.
Author : Peter London
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1989-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0877734828
This book is about using art as an instrument of personal transformation, enabling us to move from an inherited to a chosen state of being. Peter London offers inspiration and fresh ideas to artists, art students, and art teachers—as well as to people who think they can't draw a straight line but want to explore the joys of creative expression. Inside every person, he believes, there is an original, creative self that has been covered over by secondhand ideas, borrowed beliefs, and conditioned behavior. By freeing the capacity for visual expression—a natural human language possessed by everyone—we can awaken and release the full powers of that original self. Among the topics and exercises included are: • How to increase the ability to visualize, fantasize, and dream • Obstacles to the creative encounter and what to do about them • Experimenting with art media as true mediators between imagination and expression • Making masks to reveal the hidden self • Painting with "forbidden" colors • Arranging found objects as metaphors for one's life
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 184983914X
'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think. Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life. 'A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal… ' Scotsman
Author : Lisel Mueller
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807157902
In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the miraculous power of language to interpret and transform our world. It is a testament that invites readers to share her vision of experiences we all have in common: sorrow, tenderness, desire, the revelations of art, and morality—“the hard, dry smack of death against the glass.” In the title piece Mueller brings a sense of enduring and unclouded wonder to a recognition of all those whose lives might have been our own. “Speaking of marvels,” says the poem’s speaker, “I am alive.” Thus we, too—alive together—are marvels, and so are our children: who—but for endless ifs— might have missed out on being alive together with marvels and follies and longings and lies and wishes and error and humor and mercy and journeys and voices and faces and colors and summers and mornings and knowledge and tears and chance. Imaginative, poignant, and wise—Alive Together is a marvelous book, an act of faith and courage in the face of life’s enduring mystery.
Author : Martha Sterne
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819221551
With a light touch and warm voice, and just a hint of a Southern accent, Sterne, an Episcopal priest, tells the stories of her encounters with Christ in the supermarket and the beauty parlor, the garden, the kitchen, and sometimes even in the church.
Author : Dori Ostermiller
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408951061
A wife. A husband. A lover. A chance to leave her ordinary life?
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Literature
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Author : Eliakim Littell
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1849
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Author : Amy Holdsworth
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147802206X
In On Living with Television, Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exemplify the medium of television. Drawing on feminist television studies, queer theory, and disability studies as well as autobiographical life-writing practices, Holdsworth shows how television shapes everyday activities, from eating and sleeping to driving and homemaking. Recounting her own life with television, she offers a sense of the joys and pleasures Disney videos brought to her disabled sister, traces how bedtime television becomes part of a daily routine between child and caregiver, explores her own relationship to binge-eating and binge-viewing, and considers the idea of home through the BBC family drama Last Tango in Halifax. By foregrounding the ways in which television structures our relationships, daily routines, and sense of time, Holdsworth demonstrates how television emerges as a potent vehicle for writing about life.
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1847
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