Bøger af Bill G Morris

At times we all need something new. And sometimes it's just a little kindness. You can be kind, take an adventure, and see where it leads you. It's highly likley it will teach you something and take you to a better place. Join Bill's journey as he searches for a better way, a more fulfilling manner of life. Looking for more, a better way of being, Bill begins practicing secret acts of kinds with strangers, friends, neighbors, and family, anyone that might need a little help. He learns some reassuring things about people and himself as he experiments with the meaning of caring and generosity. And his most important message is: Kindness is a fulfilling journey you can take, too. Enjoy Today's Kindness, and begin your search for more.

Grey Goddess takes you on a summer journey through the California world of surfing, sex, and finding lost spirit. "A true but comical depiction of the surfing lifestyle, Bill Morris has hit the lip with his book, Grey Goddess." --Skip Snead, Surfing magazine "Finally, a coherent fictional treatise on humankind's two most worthwhile obsessions: surfing and sex." --Scott Hulet, Editor, The Longboard Quarterly "Fun reading. Wish I was back in California and a few years younger!" --Dave Bowman, Seattle Times Grey Goddess is an underground hit in the world of California beach life and surfing, a novel that has received high praise around the world. It traces the strange spiritual journey of a man in crisis who meets a mystical goddess on the beach who guides him in his survival quest. A unique picture of California mysticism, surfing, spirit, and summer beaches, reviewers have applauded the book world over. This second edition release was originally published under the title "Stoked!" and sold out in surfing and sporting stores around the world. Take a strange journey toward spirit: "In my mind, I saw the young people I had come to know as I had begun this strange surfing thing. I smiled at the fun we'd had together. In my mind's eye I could clearly see each of them striving to catch waves. I sat on the rock, thinking about these battered young surfers. Geek, Monstro, Squirrel, Cowboy, Rude Kurt. Each had a vision, each an anger or history they were working out. But in surfing, their vision and anger were purified into charged spirit, inspiration, as they applied their skills to attempt beauty with the earth, to ride the wave in grace. Their efforts were toward joy. And they were stoked."

Childhood is filled with unique and special moments and Bill Morris' book is a touching and heart-warming celebration of being young. Written for his 5-year-old daughter, "Good Morning, Ryan" presents the fun, the cherished surprises, and the subtle joys that a child brings to the family, memories that all of us can relate to and share. Whether it's the difficult task of learning to share or delight of baking a first pie, Morris captures in clear vignettes the experiences that we all felt as kids and as parents. A cascade of refreshing memories. Ones you'll long remember and enjoy. From the author of "Notes to a Five-Year-Old," Morris' new book is a gift of childhood, gift of joy. "'Good Morning, Ryan' is wonderful. Absolutely bursting with love... so full of sweet/intimate details.. And the fun--the games, the animals, the funny breakfasts. The loving honesty. It's a lot more than informative--straight from the heart." Linda Davick, author and illustrator, Ready, Set, Grow!

A gypsy card reader reads the fortunes of all who enter his shop in a human parade of the beautiful, the young, killers, poets, dancers, the rich, divorcees, and fools. He turns over his tarot cards and tells them the truth. Each reading has its risks and rewards, and he keeps a knife in his boot. One day a young actress enters his shop and he discovers her cards are also his own.The Card Reader is a love story about a tarot card reader and an actress just starting out. It begins with the card reader doing a series of readings that depict the card reader's world, then blooms into a longer story of the relationship between the card reader and actress. Through the prism of the mystical meanings of the tarot cards, the card reader faces inner darkness, seeks meaning, and finds love in a young woman, a lovely fool, whose goal is applause.The Card Reader is contemporary literature told from the unique point of view of a card reader schooled in the ancient teachings of the Tarot. Readers are immediately plunged into the intrigu- ing world of fortune-telling and questioning seekers. Each of the card reader's readings is a vivid vignette of human desires, foibles, weaknesses, evils, and hopes. Full of human insights derived from the interpretations of the cards, the book is a fast-paced and satisfying spiritual journey that traces the path of two unlike people finding each other.With interest in the Tarot and mystical teaching of the Kaballah growing among scholars, Jungian psychological research, and Hollywood, this book is singular in its leading-edge content.The Card Reader is founded upon the Kaballistic scholarship of Dr. Pamela Eakins, author of Spirit of the Tarot (Weiser) and her newly published tarot deck. The central metaphors of the book focus upon The Fool card, the first card in the Major Arcanna, a card of open-heartedness and beginnings, and The Tower, a card in which worlds tumble. No matter what the reader's experience with fortune-telling, the book presents an enthralling story of personal growth when love is in the cards."As for The Card Reader...simply marvelous...all of it!" Pamela Eakins, PH.D., "Tarot of the Spirit"

What would you do with unlimited money, a universe of money, more money than you could ever spend? The Emperor, a criminal mastermind, knows as he buys and sells entire countries. And now private investigator Morgan Hercules must find him to help save a beautiful PhD's sister. And he's not so sure he wants to face the most powerful criminal force in the world. It's going to get ugly. But he'll do it for the crushingly beautiful Julie. Bill Morris' detective novel, The Emperor's Daughter, is a comic look at the consequences of acquiring continental amounts of cash and its deadly consequences. Will private investigator Hercules be up to the task? Will he have to use his secret weapon: The Wrath of God? We hope so. The Emperor's Daughter is a literary march you'll want to make, and enjoy the cash and characters you meet along the way.

A blue whale doesn't understand what love means. He just feels it. And when he meets a pretty Irish girl on a dock, and she sits down to talk with him, he learns about her caring and very human world, one that fills him with laughter, joy, and puzzlement. This great ocean-going blue whale makes his first friend. And each day he comes to the dock to talk with her. And he learns what a world filled with her love could be.The blue whale and the Irish girl meet together for years, sharing their very different lives, and sharing the fun and pain ofjust being animals. And then the Irish girl hears the love song of the blue whale. Love Song of the Blue Whale is a whimsical trip into the lives of two exceptional characters, a talking blue whale and a young red-haired woman leading her life bravely on her own terms. It is a book about an impossible love, but a love made possible because love exists. Exists for all of us. Even if you're an ocean-going whale. Funny at times, sad at others, Love Song of the Blue Whale calls you to take a trip into your heart. Bill G. Morris is a San Francisco writer and has published six computer and educational books, written as a software columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and published ten works of fiction, with Love Song of the Blue Whale being his latest book. He denies he is the talking blue whale, but his wife thinks he is.

Meet the animals that roam at night in complete freedom as astral beings. Bill Morris' novel, The Astral Zoo, is a splendid view of zoo animals finding freedom in a zoo that is yet untamed. Though caged during the day, they live as astral beings under the astral sun, playing and finding their real selves at night. But there is a problem in the zoo. The baboons have secured a deadly mirror. "The battle ensues as Tip struggles for life, love, and meaning in a potentially meaningless world. See how it turns out in The Astral Zoo...You may discover a little monkey in yourself!" --Pamela Eakins, PhD, author of Tarot of the Spirit "Wherever I looked, I saw baboons walking at ease between buildings, sitting on rooftops, playing in the playground. Somehow this single species seemed to have come to dominate all the zoo. How could such power come from a piece of glass? The astral zoo looked a forlorn place. I hastened my trot to check on Kory's and Jacko's bodies. I wanted to make sure they were still all right. But a strong feeling gripped me as I stealthily crossed the zoo. I finally could stand it no longer. I climbed to the top of a tall pine, one that overlooked all the zoo, above the tiger pit. And from this high perch, I made what I thought might be my last call. I didn't care what baboon heard me." "Oh, Astral zoo, I see you, you animals locked in your cages, forced to sleep by day, forced to travel in darkness by night. I see you, I see you and know, your suffering is great."

This is a book of remembering. Of keeping hold of the things worth keeping. Of remembering someone you lost. And when you're fifteen and you lose someone, the most important one in your life, you might need help remembering who the lost one was, who you were, and who you are years later. After you've moved on. The Red Jacket is about a daughter's loss of her mother. A book about the things she should remember. The jewels of her family, her child life, her mother's care. All the things worth keeping. Like a red jacket. Bill Morris' second book of essays follows the success of his first book, Notes to a Five-Year-Old, that chronicled his daughter's childhood with warmth and winning wisdom. The Red Jacket picks up ten years later, as Morris writes of the loss of his wife and his concern that his daughter will need to know more of her mother later, while growing up. Morris paints clear and heartwarming vignettes of a young woman's youth, her joys, her sorrows, and stresses, so that his daughter can better understand her mother and keep her close after her loss. These are essays that we all have lived. And a father's kind words for his daughter. A book of remembering of someone gone, so that you can remember who you are. "Wonderful book. What treasured memories..." Ann Walker "Treasure received!" Sally Grey "Thanks for the book....I cried twice." Erica Johnson "Pretty amazing pieces...They leave me inspired." Kate Dickey "I cried several times during The Red Jacket...So powerful!" Pamela Eakins

Bill Morris' Notes To a Five-Year-Old is an insightful and caring look at a father's learning, playing, and growing with his daughter of five. Crystal clear glimpses at the fears, truths, and cheerful times of childhood, these short gleaming essays bring you back to the fun and memorable moments we all lived when young and relive through our children. Happy times ahead! "Notes To a Five-Year-Old is a book that I could not put down until I was finished. I was completely and totally captivated. I cried on almost every page. I cried with tears of happiness, sorrow, melancholy. The way the book deals with alcoholism, jail, failure, shame, frustration, and the existential "condition" of humanity was truly masterful. This book is universal in its appeal. I think that this is a book that all parents can relate to. I think all children, which is all of us, can respond to deeply." Pamela Eakins, PhD Author of The American Way of Birth "Notes To a Five-Year-Old is a thoughtful and perceptive view of the forgotten world of childhood as seen through the eyes of a wise and observant father...father joy at its best...a verbal photographic album filled with poetic snapshots of a most special and delightful child who hopefully still lives somewhere in each of us...Morris elevates the commonplace happenings in the life of a five year old to the level of high drama and poetry that often goes unnoticed in the routines of everyday life...a poignant and humorous map of the unfathomable depths of the five-year-old mind that will be helpful to parents and to all those who are lucky enough to enter into the magical world of children." Richard J. Correlli, MD Psychiatrist, Stanford University Whether you bought this book or received it from a friend, this is a gift. The gift of childhood.