Eat Whatever Your Momma Cooks, and Be Grateful


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Eat Whatever Your Momma Cooks, and Be Grateful, A Country Boy’s Philosophy on Life is a continuation of inspirational and thought provoking stories from the author of Not Just Beans and Cornbread. These short stories are meant to help the reader appreciate and adjust to life’s changing situations.




Recipes of Reality Beyond Trap of Tastefulness


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Every growing young must know cooking and understand reality. Maturing is about understanding recipes of reality as well as reality of recipes. Cooking is a great simulation of life’s relationship with reality. Cooking entails conscious construction of cause-effect relationship with different ingredients to create recipes of realities of experience-cognition of taste and aroma. Good life-living, like cooking, needs knowledge of causal relationships to create recipes of blissful realities, out of the ingredients of life-living information. This innovative cook book very humbly wishes to help you cook and taste all realities, the best way they should, to optimize life-living experiences, beyond restrictiveness of populism, viscerality and intuitiveness. As you grow and become an adult, your life journey unfolds in two related ways – first you consciously and conscientiously create new relationships with lot many novel and alternative realities and secondly; you continuously redefine and rebuild your existing relationships with all realities in this big world you live. This Relationship of You with Realities and its conscious-conscientious and artistic creation are critical to richness and diversity of experiences-cognitions, which alone is the true wealth of life-living. Cooking is a great modeling of this art and science of life-living and therefore every young must learn it well to be the masterchef of life. Life is largely about consciously having good and right ingredients and ‘cooking’ them to conscientiously create and recreate good and diverse recipes of beautiful, healthy and satisfying relationships with realities. You need to understand that the universe and world outside you only has Information. They are not Reality. Reality happens only when you cook and taste ‘Relationship with the Information’. The true-right-objective-holistic ‘Information’ is the best available ‘Ingredients’ of life-living recipes of realities. Recipes of reality and their experiencing depend on the experience as well as knowledge you have of infinite ingredients of information out there in the universe. Information is critical for blissful-harmonious life-living and reality of recipes requires that you understand the twin dimensions of information – Intuitive and Non-Intuitive. As you grow, you acquire ‘Ingredients of Information’ primarily through experiencing and it happens through the Intuitive-visceral and hardwired sense of utility-worth-righteousness of five senses and emotions. This intuitive sensory experiencing however is heavily prone and susceptible to fake-fudged-fraudulent-propagandist information as evidences for and against them come only with objective-scientific-holistic knowledge. This knowledge cannot be experienced by intuitive-visceral processes but only through disciplined and persevered learning. In fact, many information you get through intuitive experiencing, have to be ‘unlearnt’ through knowledge acquisition as many experienced Information are only partial and even wrong. Knowledge acquisition process is often non-intuitive and counter-intuitive, which are hard to accept as they stand antagonistic to intuitive sense of happiness. You cook not only for tastes as it is only an intuitive experiencing of happiness. You essentially cook and eat for health and energy needs of your body and health information is non-intuitive knowledge, which is often antagonistic to intuitive-visceral validation of tastefulness. Cooking and life need you to go beyond intuitive-visceral, self-validating rationality. Cooking makes you learn to balance between intuitive and non-intuitive information. It leads you to accept the importance of having true-right-holistic ‘Ingredients of Information’, to ‘cook’ most healthy as well as tasteful recipes of realities, for harmonious life-living. This novel-innovative-experimental cook book very humbly journeys all realities for your life-living wellness and prosperity. Welcome…




From a Mess to a Miracle


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If you’ve ever strayed from doing what is right because it didn’t align with the plans you had for your life ... then you’re not alone. Monique A. Brooks, who was raised in the church and conditioned to live a life in line with Christ, sometimes made hasty decisions and plans on her own terms without ever consulting Him – and she paid the price. In From a Mess to a Miracle, she shares her story as well as her certainty that anyone can transform their life by consulting and walking with the Lord. While chaos can bring hurt, pain, regret, discouragement, and even loneliness, God has the final say! By reading her story, you’ll discover how our Heavenly Father can forgive, restore, and redeem – and how to apply these gifts to your life. At the end of each chapter, reflection questions and a prayer-starter will aid you in your journey. Join the author as she shares inspiring lessons that will help you call upon God to turn your mess into a miracle.




The Gravity of Gratitude


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This book deals with the ‘gravity of gratitude’ that transcends ‘being thankful’ and ‘being grateful.’ How a simple ‘Thank You’ rewires our brain and positions us for greater achievements by allowing us to be the receiver of good luck, good relationships, wealth, and prosperity is beautifully described in this book through an innovative yogic neuroscience approach. People have inherent greatness in them, but if subjective ‘yogic science’ and objective ‘neuro science’ is used to explain the gravity of gratitude in ordinary language, as done in this book, they can unlock their own infinite potential without any help from others. This book is written in a conversational style allowing the reader to identify readily with the author.




The Pollan Family Table


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"In The Pollan Family Table, Corky, Lori, Dana, and Tracy Pollan invite you into their warm, inspiring kitchens, sharing more than 100 of their family's best recipes. For generations, the Pollans have used fresh, local ingredients to cook healthy, irresistible meals. Michael Pollan, whose bestselling books have changed our culture and the way we think about food, writes in his foreword about how the family meals he ate growing up shaped his worldview. This stunning and practical cookbook gives you the tools you need to implement the Pollan food philosophy in your everyday life and to make great, nourishing, delectable meals that bring your family back to the table"--Jacket.




The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover


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The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover combines a compelling mother and daughter memoir with self-help and a formula for readers to explore their own mother-daughter history, understand and ease their conflicts, and rediscover their appreciation and love. Bestselling author Leslie Glass and her daughter, award-winning documentarian Lindsey Glass, offer a brand-new kind of interactive self-help book that combines actionable information, compelling storytelling, and writing prompts that are guaranteed to bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book that promises to heal your relationship and keep it strong, offering a positive pathway to peace and serenity no matter how far apart you feel you are. Leslie and Lindsey have lived through their own traumas and devastating ups and downs in their relationship. They’ve turned their experiences into a successful platform for helping others and share them here in this book. They use their own tumultuous story, told from their respective points of view, to help mothers and daughters understand that even if you go off track, go to war, part ways for years, you can still find your way back to friendship, understanding, and love. For the first time, Leslie and Lindsey will share their secret sauce for healing, broken down into four steps: •Revealing Your Back Story •Exploring Your Emotional and Personality Styles •Understanding Your Conflicts and Triggers •Learning the Tools to Restore the Love










Mama Glow


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In Mama Glow, maternity lifestyle maven Latham Thomas shares the tips and techniques to support a blissful journey to motherhood. She shows you how to make room for your pregnancy, assess your current diet, banish toxic habits, and incorporate yoga to keep your mind, body, and spirit in balance. Throughout, you’ll get tips to help reduce stress; alleviate common discomforts; demystify birth plans, labor coaches, and midwives; whip up pampering treats like homemade shea butter and coffee sugar scrub; and indulge in over 50 delicious, nutrient-rich recipes to nourish both you and your "bun." Mama Glow also features a postpartum wellness plan to guide you back to your prebaby body, troubleshoot breastfeeding problems, and embrace your abundant new life. Mama Glow includes: • Illustrated exercises for a fit, fabulous, and comfortable pregnancy • Fleshed-out cleansing programs to boost fertility • A simple formula for deconstructing those crazy cravings • Yoga sequences designed for prepregnancy, each trimester, and postpartum • Checklists for your prenatal pantry, finding a birth coach, and packing your birth bag • Glow foods to help you snap back to your fab prebaby body As your certified glow pilot, Latham will guide you through every stage of your pregnancy, giving you practical advice to make your journey a joyful and vibrant one.




The Downfall and Rise of a Genius Series


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Every society promulgates culture to represent its shared values, traditions, and customs which define the way of life of her people. In some practices, cultural norms might be used to repress and intimidate certain members of society. Such was the culture of the Okale kingdom, where women's rights were suppressed and infringed on. Women and girls were seen only as marriage materials. Thus, education for girls was barely nonexistent. Ekiose, a brilliant daughter and fearless thinker of Okale, rose from ashes to challenge the cultural practices she claimed were used to rob women of their fundamental human rights and freedom of expression. In one of her outreach forums, she met a human rights advocate lawyer called Prince Ugo, a native of Abbar kingdom. They soon fell in love and planned to spend their lives together. However, their plan was cut short when Prince Idaghe, a native and crown prince of the Okale people, also desired to marry her. This controversy led to meetings between both families to resolve their differences. The purpose was to avert war which was acceptable as a last resort for resolving such conflict whereby the winner marries the woman. But Prince Ugo refused to back down, citing that he was unfairly treated because he was an outsider. When war became inevitable, the king's counselors, through divination, advised the crown prince to hunt down a lion with his bare hand as a necessity for his victory. They fought, and the battle ended in Prince Idaghe's favor. Prince Ugo, who was at the pinnacle of success in his legal profession, was severely maimed and lost it all for the sake of a woman. He allowed pride to rule his life and to dictate his decision-making process. Pride is a disease of the heart that, if not controlled, could lead someone to an early grave or some severe life consequences. Such was Prince Ugo's case, which objected to every meaningful measure to avert the fight that almost killed him. This book approaches the life storm by using the life experiences of Prince Ugo to illustrate how adversity could devastate anyone if pride and lack of contentment are not dealt with. While everyone desires to live a fruitful, stress-free life, crises might hit at any time. It might come about due to poor choices or circumstances simply beyond the person's control. A beacon of hope is always at the end of the tunnel if the victim doesn't allow his condition to hinder his foresight. When Prince Ugo came to his senses, he swallowed his pride and started over again. Through the power of perseverance and innovative ideas, he rose from rags and ashes to uplift his head above the waters that almost swallowed him alive to revolutionize his kingdom for the benefit of his people.