In 1912 a young, American woman, Alice Ross (1890-1980), began a two-year trip around the world. Her itinerary included Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Burma, Siam, India, Turkey, the Levant, Egypt and finally through Europe on the Orient Express. In the history of the earth, few people can have made such a comprehensive and leisurely journey, and essentially none of those would have been attractive, eligible women. "In Honolulu they liked me because I was game for anything in swimming, which counts more than anything there. In New Zealand I seemed more animated and had more initiative than the girls there. In Australia the reputation of the American girl has opened the way there for any who go, and in the Philippines I was simply "a new girl", and there new or old they are few and far between, and there are so many men that I think they would rush even a broomstick in petticoats. Now dear, I take no credit to myself, for I know I'm only an ordinary being, and any girl would have had the very same experiences I had, for many men proposed and begged me to marry them." So Alice summarizes her romantic adventures.Progressive, intrepid, inclusive, athletic, curious, ambitious. Are these the qualities of an Edwardian woman? We had always known that my grandmother had had extraordinary opportunities to travel widely when young. Decades after her death the letters she had saved from her journeys were put in my hands. Read over her shoulder as this 22 year-old literally travels around the globe. Alice Ross Garey is the daughter of an admiral. As one of very few Western women in "the orient" she has an all-access pass ensuring the hospitality of royalty and potentates in every nation. Yet her voice is that of a down to earth gal. The Queen of Hawaii and Sir Flinders Petrie are among the VIPs she meets. That 5-star hotel you'd like to try? Alice slept there. She traveled by horseback, buggy, ship, sedan chair, camel, rickshaw, elephant, Wright airplane, automobile, and train.She's traveling through Europe only a few months before the outbreak of WWI. It's like these letters are recording the end of a way of life; in a few short months, the world will be engulfed in the worst horrors of modernity and everything will change forever. Alice is getting home just in timeThis is factual material which reads like fiction. More than 40 photographs.
In this book, I'd like to take you into my world of sports and outdoor adventures. Through my own experiences, I've discovered the incredible impact laughter can have on personal growth.Join me on this journey as I share stories filled with humor, warmth, and wisdom. Dive into these pages, have a good laugh, and leave with a renewed passion for life and a different perspective on the world around us.
Remembering Me is an autobiographical account of the spiritual awakening and dark night of the soul experienced by the author, Dr. Elisa Peavey. In this transformative story, the author tells of discovering several of the famous people she's been in history and the wisdom these discoveries led to in her personal and professional life. Discover how the signs, clues, and synchronicities came together for Dr. Peavey. She shares her journey to uncovering important universal truths such as where we came from, where we are going, the Zero-Point Field, and soul ascension. Dr. Peavey's story is instructive and will help any reader learn how one is energetically connected to everything in the Universe; including God.
Find Healing from Past Wounds: A Journey from Seeking Man's Approval to Embracing God's Love.Navigating the turbulent seas of identity and acceptance, He Married a Whore With Daddy Issues offers readers an intimate window into Aimee Bilger's tumultuous life journey. Her story, brimming with raw emotion and unfiltered experiences, paints the heartrending portrait of a woman ensnared by her need for external validation.Aimee's tale is one that resonates with many-how the traumas of childhood can cast long, lingering shadows over adulthood. But as we journey with her, we witness the transformative power of faith. From seeking fleeting affirmation from worldly voices to finding enduring love in the voice of God, Aimee's metamorphosis serves as a beacon of hope for all grappling with their own traumas and insecurities.Through her struggles and triumphs, the book illuminates the path from brokenness to healing. It's not just about Aimee's personal redemption but also a broader call to anyone trapped by their past, yearning to be free. Dive deep into Aimee's world, from the plains of Mississippi to the educational halls of Tennessee, and witness a life reshaped by grace, perseverance, and divine love.For those seeking solace from childhood wounds or simply a story of redemption and resilience, this memoir is a testament to the idea that no matter how fractured our past, we can always rebuild with faith as our cornerstone. Let Aimee's journey inspire you to find your own path to healing and wholeness.
With a selling new package, and following the instant New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Group, a delightfully funny, heartwarming, and deliciously voyeuristic memoir from Christie Tate about her lifelong struggle to form deep and lasting female friendships, and the friend who helps her discover the human connection she seeks.
AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONWhen Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen.'Vivid, engaging... this insightful memoir sheds light on the author's life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible' Andrew McMillan, Guardian Book of the Day'A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity' Claire Fuller
Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist groups and parties and such fertile ground for violence and hatred? To try to find answers to this question, Ines Geipel, the former East German Olympic athlete, returns to her past in order explore the matrix of fear and anxiety that shaped the lives of people in the GDR. Spurred on by conversations at the bedside of her brother as he lay dying of a brain tumour, she probes into her own family background and discovers a web of secrets and denial that reflected larger processes of East German society. She finds that her father had worked as a special agent for the Stasi until the service had no further use for him, and her grandfather had joined the Nazi party in 1933 and was stationed in Riga at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the nearby forests. Silence and denial within her family was mirrored in the collective loss of history outside her home, and the repression of ideological non-conformity made it difficult for a traumatized population to grapple with and come to terms with a brutal past. Instead, a politics of forgetting emerged which served the ends of an authoritarian state and seeped into private lives of individuals with deep and lasting consequences. This powerful memoir, grippingly told, will appeal to anyone interested in the history of modern Germany, in the rise of far-right extremism and xenophobia and in the historical forces that shape the present.
As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to criticise abuses of power and give a voice to the downtrodden and disenfranchised. In this powerful memoir, Liao Yiwu reflects on his own journey from imprisonment in Sichuan to his current life in Berlin, where he now works as a full-time writer. As China's presence and influence on the international stage grows, this small book is a poignant reminder of the human cost of authoritarianism and of the power of the written word to bear witness to evil.
Take Me Home is a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences as a sports-loving boy growing up in Indiana in the 60s and as a practicing attorney in Florida. Each story presents vivid local colors and memorable characters. Many present-life passages are to be navigated and moral questions are to be pondered. Take Me Home is a light but worthwhile read that you will want to pass along to your family and recommend to your friends.
How do we bring unity and cohesion to our churches? When it comes to matters of faith development, one can assume there are no better guides than the Bible, following our lectionary, and a wit for communication. But language and faith have their structures and fluency, each ending up being personal. It's just where we are. These days, with Christian beliefs being less on common ground, faith words and phrases being distorted (many stripped of their originality), how can one nurture truth in such a diverse society? Jesus said to love God and love your neighbor as yourselves. The Bible tells us that Jesus wasn't quick to judgment. He created common ground through continual prayer and focusing on others creatively. By listening, asking questions, being engaging, and speaking truth, he formed relationships with others. He used parables, stories, idioms, and humor especially focused towards the judgmental and their interpreting patterns.These twenty-two different stories were created over time. Some are witty, but all are written to hopefully find common ground and bring people closer together through communication and love. Love is a very challenging event. It would be awesome if people would be cognizant of their prejudices as well as open to a dance that brings cohesion to their moments and their movements that even leads into a community dance. These stories were also created with a lectionary calendar in mind along with several that utilize humor. Most have some wit along with idioms to share the faith of a whimsical pastor who just can't quit.
The world struggles to find peace. Two old guys discovered the answer. Fifty years after they fought in Vietnam, they worked it out. They grew up together and went to the same schools, yet they had never met. They served in the army together, were both shot down in helicopters, and lost some of their best friends in combat, but they had to wait to meet. The answer was not in combat, military training, or book learning. They were tough soldiers who were trained to kill. Ray was a helicopter pilot flying some of the army's most advanced killing machines. Bruce was an airborne ranger who deployed the army's artillery with precision. They did their jobs well. Ray and Bruce needed to find an answer to the world's struggle. They did. See if you agree.
There's a lot of shame that comes from being an immigrant. Shame that I don't think anyone should feel, but it's still there. For months, I was ashamed of not being able to get a job without a work permit or asking my fiancé to sign a new document almost every single day.I thought being an Au Pair was hard enough, but it turned out that not being one was even harder.Being in love made things even more complicated. When I was leaving Europe, I never would have imagined falling for a "Tinder guy" and moving to Virginia. Still, despite everything, I believe our story is a beautiful one. And I'm so happy to share it with the world for the second time. Green Card Marriage was published for the first time in March 2020, about a week before the pandemic hit the United States. It was my first attempt to be a writer. And, to be fair, a very imperfect attempt. Over the years, I kept on writing and learning. I got an Associate's Degree and downloaded Grammarly. That's exactly why I decided to re-publish my very first book. Many lessons have been learned. And these days, telling this story the right way seems to be more important than ever before.
This book is inspired by a Bible Proverb:'The generous prosper and are satisfied, those who refresh others,will themselves be refreshed'Candid reflections, personal insights and humour found in the stories of a family general practitioner, husband, father and grandfather. An ordinary man whose belief in an extraordinary God helped him overcome the trials in his life. For over 45 years he has faithfully cared for patients in Australia, and repeatedly served the people of Africa, to improve their health and provide wholistic care, and in the process found himself personally 'Refreshed'.
Es gibt viele Beweggründe, die einen auf eine Pilgerreise führen. Traditionelle Gründe sind zum Beispiel die Suche nach Heilung, die Verehrung einer heiligen Person, eines heiligen Ortes, Dankbarkeitsgefühl oder Buße. Andere spezielle Gründe können unter anderem Tapetenwechsel, dem Alltag zu entfliehen, sportlicher Natur, Neugier auf das Fremde, Abenteuerlust, Entschleunigung, die Suche nach der Einfachheit und Ursprünglichkeit, religiöse/ spirituelle Erfahrungen oder das Abschiednehmen sein.Egal aus welchen Gründen eine Pilgerin oder ein Pilger unterwegs ist, egal wie oder mit welcher Fortbewegungsart die Reise absolviert wird, alle Peregrinos und deren Leistungen verdienen unseren Respekt. Jeder Mensch ist wichtig, Wertschätzung bindet, jede Meinung zählt, Zuhören ist wertvoll und Geduld eine Tugend.
January Came tells the story of a God-fearing family learning how to navigate through life's hardships. Nicolette A. Easly is a mom, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and now a first-time author. It has always been Nicolette's passion to write and tell stories. Nicolette was born and raised in Houston, Texas (southwest Houston, to be exact), where there is a church on every corner. Her dad was a pastor, and his journey inspired her to dedicate this love letter, January Came, to him.
Warning: If you don't like nightmares and horror, then don't read this book.Dream and Nightmares of a Menopausal Woman is a collection of 157 extremely vivid dreams experienced over a two-year period. Normally, this would be nothing of great interest. But I am epileptic, and one of the causes of my seizures is hormones. During the hormonal imbalance of menopause, I was basically allergic to myself! I never knew what was going to come at me each time I shut my eyes for sleep. Often not wanting to sleep due to the nightmares that plagued me. Not all my dreams where nightmares. Some of my dreams were sexual, some hilarious, and some dotted with celebrities. A very unique read that also includes nineteen illustrations."Unique and interesting opportunity to see the perspective of a woman going through quite a difficult menopause. Thankfully, menopause ends."-Shelia Schwartz"This adventure of a dream series journal, so wonderfully recalled, recorded and recounted in amazing detail, is a delightful and amusing experience. This book is a virtual 'smorgasbord' for dream and sleep researchers alike, who may find it an in depth challenge to interpret such. This book gives a whole new meaning to the words: pillow talk. Most delightful, Bambi Davis!"-Cheryl A. Hartwel
Tales I Shouldn't Tell My Daughter is about Brian McFadden's life prior to the birth of his daughter Kate, a span of almost fifty years. It is an attempt to reconcile his journey through life during his youth and early adulthood and is sprinkled with accounts of meeting with and having relationships with at least 164 celebrities, stars, politicians, and historical figures. It is also his attempt to explain the person he was then as opposed to the person he has become since she came into his life. He hopes that others will see aspects of their lives during the latter half of the 20th Century that were similar.
The Memoirs of a Few narrates a series of events that happened in the life of a few people with unique perspectives towards life. These narratives uncover the saga of a Brahmin family with a long history of migration. Keerthi, several generations down the line of the migrated group of Brahmins, believes, like his predecessors, that he is just one among the group who follow a particular pattern of living that cannot be related to a religion. Bashful by nature with repressed feelings, he is unaware that the psychological stress caused by the separation from his mother in childhood and his weakness for listening to tales of misery suffered by his forefathers were triggering delusions and transforming him into a different personality. Into his life walks Samanta, a Greek who migrated to the US and has a history of unpleasant memories of her tumultuous teenage years. They become good friends and, later, life partners. Alamelu, his mother, born into a wealthy family, is a strong woman who does not like wealth and comforts and lives a kind of austere life. She is not an atheist but has shunned age-old practices. She believes that problems are mind's creations and that we alone are responsible for our misery. She is impervious to the spirit behind beliefs and scriptures and thinks that they form a road to escape the reality of life. Narayana, his father, an upright man of few words and strong convictions, believes that spirituality is the only rudder to hold when sinking in the deep waters of misery. He thinks that rituals bring people down to a mere instinctive level and remove the beauty of philosophy. However, the philosophical outlook of Keerthi's parents receives a blow when a rare form of amnesia leaves Keerthi unable to recognize his parents' faces. By the time he recovers, his father is no more, and his mother has retreated into seclusion - retreated not out of despair but of a desire to renounce everything she cherished before being stripped of it by fate. Of late, Keerthi is getting tough like his mother...... The Memoirs of a Few engages with the question of faith and rationality from the experiences of a few characters in their life. Read here how the lives of the characters in the memoir unfold ............
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Breaking the Inherited Cycle of TraumaIn his unflinchingly honest memoir, Mitchell Raff candidly recounts his journey to overcome generational trauma and break free from decades of addiction. With raw vulnerability, he lays bare his destructive coping mechanisms and the far-reaching consequences they wrought on his life and on those around him.Beaten mercilessly as a child by his Holocaust-survivor mother, Mitchell was later kidnapped from Los Angeles to Israel before finding refuge with loving relatives back in America. In his adult life, the echoes of trauma forced Mitchell into patterns of substance abuse, sexual vices, and toxic relationships. But at a certain point, Mitchell explains, you need to own your decisions, for better or worse. After years of painful self-examination and work, Mitchell settled into a healthy relationship and found the strength to endure blows that once would have destroyed him. Mitchell's unfiltered account of his trials, failures, and ultimate breakthrough to become the man he always wanted to be is living proof that cycles of generational trauma can be broken, that even the deepest wounds can soften, and that though the road is difficult, it is within reach to not only survive but thrive.
Bill Niven pflegt seine Frau, die an Multipler Sklerose erkrankt, viele Jahre bis zu ihrem Tod. Um seine Trauer zu bewältigen, erzählt er Helena ihr gemeinsames Leben in seinen Erinnerungen. Es ist ein Leben, in dem sich alles ändert, weil die Krankheit beide immer mehr beherrscht, auch wenn sie versuchen, Normalität herzustellen. Er schreibt von seinen Gedanken, Hoffnungen und Bedürfnissen wie auch von Schuldgefühlen, weil er an den Punkt kommt, wo er als Pflegender aufhört, sich selbst zu spüren, seine Kräfte schwinden und es um das eigene Überleben geht.Das Buch wendet sich vor allem an diejenigen, die ihre Erfahrungen mit Krankheit, Pflege und Tod haben - in allen Altersgruppen. Doch es eignet sich auch als Lektüre für Menschen, die diese Erfahrungen (noch) nicht teilen. Es ist für Männer und Frauen geschrieben worden. Die Erfahrungen, die der Autor beschreibt, kennen keinen bestimmten Ort, sie sind universell.Es gibt Bücher zum Thema Krankenpflege und Trauer, aber wenige, sehr wenige, die sich mit den Schuldgefühlen des Pflegenden auseinandersetzen. Hier setzen die berührenden Erinnerungen von Bill Niven an, der von einem schmerzhaften Verlust und von einer großen Liebe erzählt, die fortbesteht, nicht zuletzt auch, weil der, der zurückbleibt, die Gewissheit hat: "Ich habe geliebt. Ich wurde geliebt. Das bleibt. Das Bewusstsein, dass es so war."
Dieses Buch beschreibt einen Weg, den zwei Ordensfrauen, losgelöst von hierarchischen Strukturen, gegangen sind, auf der Spur nach der Freiheit und dem Leben in Fülle. Die Wirklichkeit Berlins wurde für beide der Ort der Begegnung mit der Geistkraft, die die Präsenz und gleichzeitig Abwesenheit Jesu in den unspektakulären alltäglichen Lebensereignissen eines NROs spürbar macht. Schmerz und Freude gehören zu dem Weg als zwei Seiten derselbe Realität, die dialektisch im Alltag das Leben ermöglichen, bis zum letzten Sprung in die Ewigkeit. Das letzte Kapitel beschreibt wie eine der beiden Schwestern, Margit, diesen Sprung schafft, in einem erstaunlichen Spiel zwischen Loslassen und sich dem Neuen einzulassen.
Im Oktober 1912 reiste Lou Andreas-Salomé nach Wien, um Sigmund Freud, aber auch andere Psychoanalytiker der ersten Stunde persönlich kennenzulernen und bei ihnen zu studieren. Ihr Tagebuch der folgenden zwölf Monate, in der vorliegenden Neuausgabe nach dem Originalmanuskript neu transkribiert, ist ein unvergleichlich wertvolles Dokument aus der Pionierzeit der Psychoanalyse.Als klare und neutrale Beobachterin analysiert sie sowohl die verschiedenen Denk- und Theorieansätze als auch die Befindlichkeiten der ersten Psychoanalytiker. Der Leser erfährt die Reizthemen, wird mitgenommen zu den Treffs in Cafés, Restaurants und Kliniken und erlebt Freud, seine Bewunderer wie Viktor Tausk und Kritiker wie Alfred Adler hautnah. Ihre Aufzeichnungen vom Münchner IPV-Kongress 1913, sind der einzige Augenzeugenbericht von der kontroversen Tagung, in deren Folge die endgültige Abspaltung der Zürcher Schule um C.G. Jung unabwendbar wurde.Daneben berichtet das Tagebuch auch vom Wiederbeleben der Bekanntschaften mit Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach und anderen Autoren und Künstlern und wirft damit ein reizvolles persönliches Schlaglicht auf die Kulturszene Wiens im frühen 20. Jahrhundert.
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