Bücher veröffentlicht von Irma Sheppard

Cats from 8 to 80Effortless grace, beauty, strength, agility, playfulness and endless curiosity, repose and quietude, eventual trust and close companionshipGinger, Boots Tiger, Cativa, Tzigana, WonTon, Oedipus, KittyKitty, Sylvester, Felix, Sweetness, Sushi, Sam, Minnie, Max, ZemZem, Sasha.My mother called me Katzenmutter-Catmother, and I am.Cats speak to me visually as much or more than orally.Through the decades I have learned, cat by cat, the rules of optimal cohabitation. The secret is love.

"The poems in Inheritance explore all that is said (and left unsaid) within families. The lingering bruises of abuse and broken relationships, the universal heartbreak of lost children, and the understanding age brings, all lie in the spaces between the lines. The language resonates like "a fine-toothed wind, bellwether of dark desires." And in the end I was left with the image of a father's favorite spoon, discovered in an attic, whose previous owners had been forced by the Nazis to "relocate."- Susan Cummins Miller, author of Fracture

A non-academic, layman's introduction to Sufism, Islamic and Westernized. Includes a brief history of Muhammad and the esoteric core of Islam, the development of the various Sufi Orders, teaching-methods, and the teacher-student relationship.