Bücher von Thomas Davis

In the El Malpais wilderness of New Mexico, Juniper Window lives in a cave in a deep collapse that his father has built into a home. They live a strange existence where the witch of the El Malpais stands in large Ponderosa pine trees on nights of the full moon and haunts a stark landscape of lava flows, cinder cones, caldera sunk into the earth, lava tube caves, and sandstone bluffs.One night, after a depressing day at school, Juniper confronts the beautiful witch in her tree, and she chases him until he finally escapes down a lava tube that branches into other lava tubes deep in the earth. He finally reaches a great cavern with an underground river. There he sees "great lizards moving in darkness. Tongues flickered in and out of huge mouths with rows of razor-sharp teeth." When the largest of the lizards notices him, Juniper hears a voice in his head that tells him to follow to where a lava tube leads to the surface. Juniper is hesitant, but what other choice does he have? He could never follow the maze of tubes he'd scrambled down before he found the great cavern. When, poised above the cavern in front of the lava tube he has been led to, he speaks out loud to the great lizard, the lizard informs him that it not a lizard but a dragon.Thus starts an adventure that is partly a love story, partly a tale of madness in a world filled with the violence and problems confronting contemporary society, including drug use, and partly a story of healing, family, and redemption. Poetic prose sings as events sweep over the wild landscape of the El Malpais and Ramah, New Mexico and dragons and human hurtle toward a climax that promises enormous changes in a world that has no idea of what is about to happen. As the powerful adventure continues, the dragons discover their heritage as great dragons who have been driven to the cavern beneath El Malpais to avoid extinction, Lily, a Navajo girl that Juniper falls in love with, finds a way to heal her Grandfather of his alcoholism, and Juniper, his father, and his mother at last put the past behind them on a hill beside Four Windows Caves as the dark sky on a Christmas night is filled with the flight of dragons.¿

Why do we have the freedom to choose? What are the choices we make? Why do we make certain decisions? How do we reason and select or evaluate our choices to make life work for us? Or is it about us? Pro-Choice, Pro-God, Pro-Life: A Multiple-Choice Answer for a Humanity Question addresses these inquiries and others.Choice is a fundamental freedom in a free society as opposed to a dictatorship. Choice has always been a God-given ability for angelic beings and humans. Lucifer and the heavenly host exercised their ability to choose long before God created humankind. Two-thirds of the angelic beings decided to stay on God's side, and one-third decided to rebel with Lucifer. What we choose and why we make the selections are critical to the success of life. Taking away one's fundamental right to choose creates rebellion, discord, strife, and a form of slavery. Although God may allow it, however, it is not his desire for us.Teaching and influencing people how to make better choices is key to having a better society. In Pro-Choice, Pro-God, Pro-Life: a Multiple-Choice Answer for a Humanity Question, you will explore why we as a nation must be committed to establishing and promoting better choice-making abilities, based upon proven biblical truths, and the need for embracing God's grace for overcoming past mistakes.We are a violent, sexually addicted society with a bent toward self-destruction. We cannot afford to leave our future to chance or politicians who have figured out how to manipulate the emotions of the country for their gain. By exercising our God-given ability to choose correctly, we become competently equipped as a nation to be pro-choice, pro-God, and pro-life for our humanity.

Mythos of the Door contains lyric and narrative poems that explore the underlying spirit of Door County, Wisconsin. Millions of visitors come to the Door every year because of its miles of shoreline, art galleries, indoor and outdoor live theaters, musicians and music venues, nightlife, sailing, fishing, golf, small shops, and bookstores. Once in the county they visit small villages and the city of Sturgeon Bay. What they do not always see beyond dolostone cliffs, the waters of Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, or inland lakes, the forests, or the wonder of the state parks are the stories that go back to when American Indians, the first French fur traders, the sailors of sailing or steamships, or those that first planted the magnificent cherry orchards created a mythos woven into the natural beauty of a magic peninsula.metapA mythos is a myth or mythology, a traditional theme or plot structure, or a set of beliefs of assumptions. Poetry, at its very best, is an exploration. In this book, story poems are interwoven with lyric sonnets and a wide range of other forms of mostly traditional verse forms to explore the mythos of the door from the wild waters of Death's Door between Washington Island and Gill's Rock at the tip of the peninsula. In doing so, the book as whole looks past the surface of the stories and the characters of the Door and explores the meaning of what we all are, living inside our multitude of histories, as human beings.The stories told with meter and rhyme range from that of a Potawatomi woman confronting a wolf with pale, green eyes frightened away from here by a large black bear to the classic Christmas story when an immigrant man and his daughter try to cross a frozen Death's Door just before Christmas during a year when Lake Superior has frozen over and confronted by ominous cracks in the ice. Potawatomi and fur traders come into contact, sailors try to survive furious storms, and an old man at Christmas miraculously works his way out of a deep depression caused by his wife's death when he sees two ravens and snow geese during a winter storm. The sheer beauty of lyric poetry describing magic moments can be found too, as well the life of stone sculptures of women "Staring intently out of bronze, pewter, metallic blue, and silver/At the nothingness of everything." This is old fashioned poetry in an age where rhyme and meter has gone out of style, but it recalls the magic of poetry that has enchanted generations upon generations of readers from the time when Beowulf was first written down on a page into our contemporary world.

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Thirty years ago, tribal college educator and poet Thomas Davis began writing poems about the tribal college movement, beginning with the founding of College of Menominee Nation in Northern Wisconsin. He had no intention of developing a book out of the poems, using napkins and scraps of papers to create a mostly free verse poetry that chronicled the events and people trying to build a new kind of educational system that would preserve and evolve Indigenous language, history, and culture. Davis gave these poems away and many were lost. Until now. Meditation on the Ceremonies of Beginnings is a new kind of narrative poetry, an informal history of the tribal college movement and the World Indigenous Higher Education Consortium told through poetic verse. It recounts, as acclaimed poet Kimberly Blaeser (Ojibwe) says, "the liquid fire of oratory" becoming "the great song a movement sings." Meditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings captures the dreams and vision of Indigenous leaders in higher education. It tells their story, illuminating how two great movements set out to change the world and succeeded in a multitude of ways, both big and small.