Author : Robert Harlen King
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826416391
In this beginner's guide to contemplation, the Kings describe the practice as part of a strategy of successful aging. Includes reader-friendly information on sitting meditation, centering prayer, walking meditation, and loving-kindness meditation.
Author : Robert H. King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826418333
This is a beginner's guide to contemplation for anyone in the second half of life and also a love story. Autumn Years describes the practice of contemplation as part of a strategy of successful aging. Recognizing that there is no single contemplative path, it includes: sitting meditation, centering prayer, walking meditation, and loving-kindness meditation. It also looks at other practices as well: yoga, lectio divina, koan study, music meditation, dream work, and even travel as pilgrimage. 'Shows that marriage is as much a spiritual journey as monasticism... youth only the beginning of the human exploration of wonder, divine passion, and holiness.' Laurence Freeman, O.S.B., director of the World Community of Christian Meditation
Author : Dickson Loos
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450274749
Harry and Vera have lost their long term spouses and are struggling to adjust to life as senior citizens who are single again. They were drawn together when Harry impusively buys an old watercolor in a Maine antique shop. It is in very bad condition and Harry asks Vera, an accomplished artist, to help him restore it. She discovers the watercolor conceals a beautiful oil portrait of a gorgeous woman which a prominent museum in Washington identifies as the work of Winslow Homer. This plunges Harry and Vera into an action packed quest to establish provenance since the circumstances of the discovery suggest it was stolen. Along the way they also unravel the identity of the woman and the story of Homers tragic love affair with a girl he met during the peninsula campaign in the Civil War. As they are engaged in their joint enterprise, a lovely Geriatric Romance evolves and comes to fruition when provenance is established and the painting is sold.
Author : Liz Kessler
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444003224
If you could see into the future - would you look? Jenni Green doesn't have a choice. On her way to visit her best friend, Autumn, Jenni suddenly finds she's been transported exactly one year forward in time. Now she discovers that in the year that's gone by, tragedy has struck and her friendship with Autumn will never be the same again. But what caused the tragedy? How did Jenni skip a year? And can she find her way back to the past to try to change what lies ahead? With humour - and her customary light touch - the author of the EMILY WINDSNAP books plays a fascinating game with time, and explores the changes that take place in friendships and families in the aftermath of a disaster.
Author : Gerald Kastigar
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1489718060
Now that youre a senior citizen, does it seem as though your life has shrunk around you, leaving little behind the outside world? Perhaps your friends have begun to avoid youor vice versa. Maybe youve even become a grump. If any of this sounds familiar, dont worry; you can find a reasonable way to change your behavior. Leaving the Autumn Years explores how seniors react, both negatively and positively, to changes in their daily lives and how their mind-sets in various situations can shift dramatically. It considers why people behave the way they do and provides self-assessments designed to help you understand your lifestyle and reactions with new perspective. At age seventy-nine, author Gerald Kastigar shares his knowledge and wisdom, built from his life experiences as a keen observer of human nature; examines how people create the conditions and mind-sets of their lives; and offers methods for adjusting your outlook to improve your health and happiness. This self-help guide seeks to assist older people in understanding truths about themselves and discovering how to make the changes they feel are necessary.
Author : Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D.
Publisher : Impact Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 188623096X
Autumn is a time of bright colors and full harvest moons; a time to reap and savor what we’ve sown. Our autumn years are the ideal time to reexamine our lives. Often spurred on by a 50th birthday or the last child leaving home, it becomes important to question who we are in the larger scheme of things, to wonder what we really want from our lives. Finding Meaning, Facing Fears (Winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Awards 2013) invites us to explore the many opportunities this time of life presents: opportunities to stretch in our capacities, to face and conquer old demons, and to meet new challenges with greater resources than were available to us before. We will also have a greater opportunity to give back to the world the benefit of our experiences and to think about and implement our personal legacies. Dr. Shapiro helps us discover which alternatives will serve best in our relationships, career, even spiritual quests, and offers answers to the inevitable questions we face as we get older, such as: “Is that all there is?” “Is it too late to change my life?” “Where do I go from here?” and, “I’ve got everything I thought I wanted; why aren’t I happy?”
Author : Robert Maass
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805090932
Photographs and simple text present a variety of things seen in the fall.
Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143197886
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2017 Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That’s what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdon is in pieces, divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith’s new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet—four stand-alone books, seperate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)—and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making. Here’s where we’re living. Here’s time at its more contemporaneous and its most cyclic. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, a story about aging and time and love and stories themselves.
Author : Robert Brinkley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521380744
Leading American and British textual editors respond to the recent radical overhaul in the editing of Romantic texts in the light of developments in critical theory.
Author : Tilitha Waicekauskas
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1438925085
To me, sunshine means life, warmth, happiness, love, faith, and enduring strength. The poems in this book are about those things that bring me sunshine. They are the poems of my life and were written from the teens and into my 70's. I hope that my poetry will witness my faith, my love for my family, my love for America, the happiness of living in the Ozarks, and how blessed my life has been. If I could live my life over, I wouldn't change a thing.
