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Navigation has played a crucial role for humanity on this beautiful blue planet. In the distant past, sniffing the air for scents, noticing the arc of the sun, naming the stars and using them to steer us toward prime hunting grounds all contributed to survival of our species, at least so far. However, today we must question our way forward. Our existence is questionable. Resources we have squandered have resulted in species extinction, mass pollution of the oceans and air, and perilous relationships among nations.The compass is a metaphor in this series of poems for navigational challenges we meet in both our personal and planetary existence. After each poem there is a reflection to steer the reader or at least prompt a consideration. We aim to steer ourselves toward a more compassionate course. Our simple life experiences: birth, death, gardening, laundry, are all pointers on the map. A refurbished compass needle can be calibrated using the heart to lead toward more love, harmony and beauty.

Shelf Unbound 2019 Best Indie Book Award Winner-Notable Indie"Just Like That is a gift to the soul, a key to the fickle path of light as it makes its way through the cracks of human journey towards love. The book is honest to a fault, so it wakes you up like a fresh brewed cup of coffee, shakes you, like an earth tremor, cracks you open, and rebuilds the pieces with love glue, compassion composite, it makes love to you like the most delicious lover. Most importantly it shines bright light on the dark crevasse of our being. These words are the ginger and mint in your tea, they are fresh, tasty, and quench your thirst; to understanding what makes our human journey so profound. "Gisela Stromeyer the author; is a person who lives by her truth, a person that exemplifies what we all yearn for, to be ourselves; to be who we truly are, face the mirror and love the reflection in it."This poetry book is a treasure, a must on any journey. Take it to wherever you go, open it whenever you get lost. If I had the choice of one book only, this is the one I would take." -Dror Ashuah, author of the "Conversation with Angels" series"This work by Gisela Stromeyer confers a unique and generous vitality…the poetry, practices, and paintings emerging like wildflowers blossoming directly from her lived experience…a collection of spontaneous uprisings that invite the reader to stand in appreciation of the awakenings awaiting recognition in our own lives." -Joseph Jastrab, spiritual counselor, author of Sacred Manhood Sacred Earth, editor of Turning Point journal"Gisela's words are medicine. Medicine that-like all true medicine-has been gathered, crafted, and matured in the alchemy of her lived experiences and deep exploration of Soul and Spirit." -Annette Knopp, meditation teacher, counselor, and shamanic practitioner"With her new book Just Like That, Gisela Stromeyer has given us a lovely treasure. In Gisela'a poems, paintings, and practices, we encounter a true renaissance woman at work. Her poems are lively invitations, warmly welcoming us to ponder the questions that matter in life. Her paintings add beauty and gravitas to her words, becoming portals for us to enter deeper awareness. And in Gisela's practices we witness the generosity of her spirit as she presents her wisdom and healing guidance. All this is offered with a light touch, like a luminous butterfly landing on your being, just like that." -Gail Straub, author, activist, and co-founder of Empowerment Institute

"Armin Kabiri is a visionary artist, poet, and musician. His work bridges the gap between spiritual and creative realms, and even more-so displays that the gap is non-existent. "In this poetic narrative of self-discovery, Kabiri explores the interplay between external and internal worlds. Sexual experience opens the doors to self-understanding, and understanding opens yet other doors to connections between the external and metaphysical worlds. Kabiri finds inherent contradiction in grasping at the substance of creation as a mere mortal before revealing that it is exactly the limits of physicality that allow us to make sense of the beyond. The Bigger Woman intermingles philosophical treatise with love story. It is a raw exploration of being." -Aidan Pillard, Healer

This book is a guide to establishing a personal movement practice that can serve as the foundation of daily life, with the body itself as teacher.

2020 IRDA Award Winner, Education category"Anger in the Classroom will help teachers figure out the causes of anger and how to prevent it. Lots of good case studies." --Temple GrandinA teacher with classroom experience over a period of years will naturally grow as an effective teacher. A teacher who does this with increased attention will be able to grow more quickly and fully. A teacher who adds to this, intention and self-study, will grow rapidly, and surpass the natural limits each of us has built-in. The real transformation may begin--along with a richness that might at times seem extraordinary, for both student and teacher.Specific features:50 case stories illustrating concepts and techniquesExercises for teacher/parent development--and enriched classroom practicesEnd of chapter questions for interested readers, professionals, and college studentsGoals of this book for the teacher/reader:to tap into un-nurtured personal strengthsto face anger with strength in the individual and the classroomto create a classroom environment that will foster appreciation rather than resentmentto provide practices for exploration and for specific resultsto prepare the teacher for passing experience and knowledge on to studentsto rekindle the excitement and joy of teaching

This collection of interviews with local residents offers a glimpse of life from pre-World War II through the 1980s in a small Hudson River Valley hamlet, located between Rhinebeck and Hyde Park, New York. The narrators recall what is was like to work on the Great Estates, play all summer in and on the river, get through the Depression, encounter Roosevelts, and live in a once bustling village in simpler times. Each of the narrators interviewed has passed away; but in the stories they left us, each in their own voice, we see how this community, like so many others, is truly a family. From those heartfelt memories, we learn that just as families thrive and struggle together, so did the hamlet of Staatsburg.

A Challenging Peace in the Life and Stories of Jesus is for anyone who is curious about the stories of Jesus, yearns for peace in their own lives and in the world today, or appreciates the intersections of art, story, faith, and justice. The book interprets forty stories from the Gospels through block print images created by the author, along with their Biblical texts. It also includes the author's own reflections that draw on the story, the art-making process, and how it all speaks to the challenge of making peace in our times. The author believes there are universal truths in the stories around Jesus that reach beyond the limits of Christianity and may help to unite us all in creating a more peace-filled world.

In her latest collection of poems, Elizabeth Cunningham takes an imaginative leap into a magical world that is also palpably real, a once-upon-a-time place that could exist just after our own time or long ago. Here we meet a motley assortment of people, a temple sweeper, a sword woman, a morose fool, a merry drunk, an enigmatic ancient dreamer, among a host of others. Human voices mingle with those of animals-the mouse who thinks it's an elephant, a flying pig-and also the voices of river, rain, tree, and stone. Through songs, dreams, and conversations, a story emerges, or many stories woven into one. Cunningham's hypnotically beautiful language draws us into this story, one we may dimly remember and long to hear again.

A child wonders what her dog, "Tesla The Sheltie", dreams about when he goes to sleep. Dog toys? People food? Vacuum nightmares? Zoe's imagination takes us on an adventure to doggie dreamland that will make you wonder…Does your dog dream at night…and if so, what about?

First-person accounts from pioneers of the Hip Culture of Santa Cruz in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.Edited by Ralph H. Abraham with the assistance of Rick Gladstone, Kate Bowland, Paul Lee, Fred McPherson, Don Monkerud, Ed Penniman, and T.Mike Walker

What distinguishes the possible from the impossible? Happiness from unhappiness? More often than not, it is the emotions, beliefs, and opinions that fill our mind, about ourselves and the world. We lose our innate wisdom and peace when we are self-critical, worried, or unable to control our urges. Our habits of thinking and being seem to have a life of their own, and will not truly change until we become aware of how to utilize our innate healing power within, which holds great awareness, intelligence, and compassion¿our true Self.Wende Birtch invites the reader to dive deep into a new level of Self-awareness and compassion with a 6-step self-inquiry practice, based on the powerful and transformational process of Internal Family SystemsSM. With dedication to this daily practice, we soon discover the ability to heal inner hatred, fear and division within ourselves with an amazing Presence of genuine love, wisdom, and courage. We can then experience a new way of being, awakening our greatest potential to love and lead in the world with joy and genuine compassion. Learning to believe in our innate goodness, and that of each other, could possibly be the foundational spiritual practice needed to heal our individual and universal divide.

Love's Last Madness, a translation of selected poems from Darshan Singh's magnum opus Mat¿'-e N¿r, sings of the torments and ecstasies a lover of God experiences on the journey to divine realization. Remarkable for masterfully fulfilling his worldly responsibilities while immersing himself in his mystic quest, Darshan Singh (1921-1989) was a renowned spiritual teacher with tens of thousands of students around the globe. Four-time winner of a prestigious Urdu academy award for poetry in India, he has been acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest mystical poets in the Urdu language.All royalties from this book will be donated to charity.

First-person accounts from pioneers of the Hip Culture of Santa Cruz in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Edited by Ralph H. Abraham with the assistance of Rick Gladstone, Paul Lee, Don Monkerud, and T.Mike Walker

This book is the result of roughly five years of writing poetry and reading it out in the Mid-Hudson Valley's poetry scene. This is my sharing with you my most cherished, personal, playful and deep imaginings.Now I get to put them together into a format that makes a greater whole. I hope you enjoy and are moved and challenged.The groups of poems-most of them anyway-are called Flows. This is because each chapter is a separate entity, a movement through various realms of material, with each having a beginning, a journey, and a conclusion.I see this collection as something to be read slowly and chewed on. Poetry is a chance to speak in a deep and concentrated way. It seems to create the opportunity for poets to delve deeply into themselves or, alternatively, to disappear and allow the events and surroundings to penetrate them. It is also an opportunity for wonder and laughter. Cousins.And then we get to report.After many hours of delving and diving-I am pleased to pass this report on. Now you get to see where it takes you.Happy Travels!

An insider's view of Woodstock from the outside.Space Larrabee had planned to go to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, but he misses it because he procrastinates. And so begins his journey of a thousand miles.Experience what happens when Space meets Thyme. Explore their inner and outer universes as the shadow of Atlantis slowly looms over the music, psychedelia, and dreams of their life and times.Atlantis surfaces periodically in Space's life as a physical antagonist, especially at the Sufi meditation camp they attend at Woodstock, New York in 1974. He surfaces again three years later with a surprise move that shatters the world of Space and Thyme.www.demunson.com

Nate Randall is an almost-was rock star, licking his wounds and failing in a relationship with his financially successful but nihilistic girlfriend, Sheila McNally, when she calls him from her hated job on the 97th floor of World Trade Center Tower 2, which is on fire and about to crumble into lower Manhattan. As her final act, Sheila tells Nate the combination to the safe in her apartment containing a secret trove of damning information. The documentation implicates her employer, United Silicon Enterprises, along with high government officials and members of the garbage mob that include her despised father, Bill McNally, in a scheme to profit from the massive stream of toxic waste the company produces every day.Shaken and transformed by Sheila's death, the subsequent cancer-related death of his best friend and former band mate, Rico Exman, and a couple of near-death experiences of his own, Nate metamorphoses himself into a cub reporter for a small newspaper in Dutch Hollow, the upstate New York town of Sheila's birth. While initially finding a new lease on life as a muckraking investigative journalist living among a tribe of quirky fellow misanthropes (and reluctantly falling in love with a young reporter in the process), Nate becomes increasingly radicalized by the revelations he discovers.Realizing that exposing the byzantine world of the black market toxic waste/drug cartel conspiracy will ultimately be a fruitless, unappreciated and ineffective task, Nate is drawn into the orbit of Nick Vitello, a disgruntled elder mobster who craftily manipulates him into spearheading a violent act of what can only be described as eco-terrorism. As can reasonably be expected, things do not quite go as planned, with catastrophically mixed results. Many of the book's revelations are true and are based on investigations the author performed over a five-year period for The Nation Institute. New York State and especially Hudson Valley residents will enjoy trying to figure out which characters, institutions, events and locales have their seeds in reality, and will hopefully be motivated to look a little closer at the beautiful but tainted world around them. Wasted is testament to the dawning realization in the opening decades of 21st Century America that the threat of terrorism pales in relation to the devastation being wrought by unscrupulous members of our nation's power elite in the name of greed.

This guidebook contains a full-color reproduction of each kneeler and a synopsis of the chapter from The Venerable Bede's Life of Cuthbert, written not long after Cuthbert's death in 687, that inspired the image. I have included some verse to accompany individual images or, in some cases, thematic groups such as the many healings attributed to the saint. I imagine these words being spoken by different characters as in a medieval miracle play, hence my title, The Story of Saint Cuthbert in Many Voices.

In the blink of an eye time can collapse and the curtain between lives blow open before settling back in place. I'm sure it happens all the time, ignored, unnoticed. Go ahead. Close your eyes and imagine such a moment. Who are you? Where are you? Imagine your many selves in that moment all aware of you, as you are of them.Now who are you? Are you still a single self trapped in the confines of time? Let's assume you're not. What tale would you weave of the variation on a theme called your lives here on Earth? To what end are you here?There, I see it now, the dawning, the light in your eyes. Yes, it's true, you, in all your myriad forms, are on a hero's journey. Wandering through time and space, stumbling, tripping, running, crawling, dancing toward wisdom, compassion, and, most importantly, love.Look around you-your family, your friends, even your enemies, they're all on the same journey, the warp to your weft. The anchor points in your eternity.Believe it or not, you are the director, co-writer, and lead actor on these stages, in these pages. What journey will you take us on? Would you like me to share a bit of mine? Where should I begin when there is no beginning? What ending when there is no end?I'll start with the man at the tavern.

Waking up on the Couch is a journey of spiritual awakening. It is an intimate look at how we develop our personalities, identities, defenses, and the letting go of whatever keeps us small. Using her personal story, Beth Miller, invites the reader to take an inner journey, delving into your deepest being in discovery of abiding and embodied contentment.

Here's a sequel that is fecal! A natural progression from the book "What Do Animals Eat?"because what goes in, must come out. Read a fascinatingand informationalrhythmical and rhyminganswer to the question,"Where Do Animals Poop?" "Just like animals movein water or land or sky,they also make movementsas they swim or walk or fly." From Alligator to Zebra,complete with poop photographs and synonyms.

Do you sometimes wonder what you are doing in this world? Is your presence here the result of an accidental collision of random molecules, or are you a coherent entity, with a purpose to pursue?According to this book, your existence is not a mere freakish happenstance, a fleeting flash of light in a senseless sea of darkness. Instead, you are an enduring consciousness: imaginative, adventurous, creative, caring, and loving. Life on Earth can reveal to us many expressions of beauty and wonder. At the same time, this world can also bring us pain, discouragement and a whole catalog of ills. The good and the bad are somehow entwined in each other. Each day we are fed the sour, along with the sweet. If we develop insight as we go along from day to day, we will adapt, we will survive, and we will learn.The concepts presented in this book remind us who we truly are, and also describe and explain some of the underlying workings of this world.