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Therapy Sessions is a collection of poetry spanning two decades. In its pages, the author explores love, depression, fantasy, and religion. Poetry, like music, often allows the expression of emotions that are difficult to put into words. This is the exploration of difficult questions and emotions. By painting with words, snippets of those introspections can be held for a moment. This collection will take you on a journey from fairy-tale images to the hard parts we don't like to talk about.

"Pawprints may fade, but the memories and love of our furry friends remain forever." Children tend to have a straightforward and uncomplicated way of living, unburdened by the complexities and responsibilities of adult life. They ride their bikes around the neighborhood. They play ball at the park. They chase each other around the yard. Nothing makes children happier than to play from sunup to sundown with their friends. But what happens when children are forced to move on a regular basis and never develop the bonding required to develop stable childhood relationships?What started as a happy childhood existence, turned into a roller coaster life with the first move. One simple act meant that a child must now learn how to navigate in an unfamiliar world with unfamiliar surroundings. The range of emotions experienced is overwhelming for someone so young. So overwhelming sometimes, that the child will latch on to a new pet to find comfort and support in a strange new environment. Pets can be a valuable source of comfort and support for children who are experiencing significant life changes. Brownie was the perfect pet at the perfect time. Brownie provided unconditional love and support during an extremely tumultuous time in the life of a child. Happiness was finally found. That is until Brownie passed away unexpectedly.

Exploits and Opportunities of an Airman is about the adventures through travel throughout Central America and the northern and southern parts of Europe, exploiting the current and historical. It is also about how having a family changes your outlook and values that you place on yourself, those around you, and your career. By bettering yourself with knowledge and credentials, you open doors for chances to prove something not only to others but also to oneself! The opportunities of this book are explained.I was fortunate that those who went before me were willing and able to pass on their knowledge so I could build upon that knowledge and experience. While I was TDY in Panama, we had an old Black man who was our line chief. Some people would look at that as a derogatory statement. Yes, he was a Black man--but he was more, so much more. He was a wise and knowledgeable man. He knew his job, he knew the plane, and he knew how to handle young men. He is one of the men to whom this book is dedicated. It was about working together to ensure that we had planes in the air to help those in need. It was "Work hard and play hard." I carried those thoughts with me my whole career! While in Panama Canal, I had the opportunities to experience the wonder of the canal, as well as the devastation to those individuals who helped build it. I played on a golf course that was made through a dense forest. If your ball went into the woods, you did not go in to get it. I learned that first thing in the morning, you did not just go into the wheel well of a plane--it could have a nasty large snake or lizard that crawled up in there during the night. All in all, Panama was a fascinating and vibrant country.Working on airplanes and then watching them take off after you had repaired it gives you such a feeling of accomplishment that is rarely felt. When you add the knowledge that the plane is heading to help someone, there is no greater feeling. I have been an aviation enthusiast since I was ten and my neighbor would take me to the Frederick airport in western Maryland. Today, it is the AOPA (Airmen Owners and Pilots Association) headquarters. Being in the Air Force has afforded me the opportunity to play with airplanes and enjoy my other passion for travel.Through my travels, I had looked inside of live volcanoes that erupted nine months later. I was able to see the villas in Sicily that were used in the Godfather movies. On the other hand, I was in Morocco six months after we attacked Libya the first time, and I traveled all the way down to the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.

Set in a remote village in the wilds of the Kenyan bush, A Place Beyond Midnight chronicles the exciting and luminous stories from the journal of a young Peace Corps volunteer. Cody Hawks experiences the wonders, challenges, and personal injunctions in East Africa with friends bound together in noble purpose. He has come to Kenya to break from his past and write a new story for himself. A story of service and sacrifice. His indelible often humorous narration recounts the problems he and his friends face as they struggle to navigate an alien landscape, a different culture, and a new language. His journey to reinvent himself is framed by perils at every turn in Kenya's harsh environment. Along the journey, daring misadventures test his resolve while kindness, compassion and the lessons of genuine friendship and self-discovery evolve. He confronts ignorance, tradition and danger when faced with life and death, and discovers unexpected passion in the turbulence that is Africa.

The principal audience for this book is the person or persons who wish a camping experience with a minimum of camping equipment. It is oriented for those who go camping with a minimum of food or no food, without a tent, without utensils, etc. It is based on this author's years of experience camping in the swamps of South Louisiana. It covers instructions on how to build shelters, how to minimize biting insects, how to construct a campfire, how to boil water with and without a pot, how to secure food, and many other survival methods. There are, however, many tips in this work for those who may only wish to go on a weekend campout; tips that can make any campout trip more enjoyable. This book also has a wealth of references at the end of each chapter, giving more detail concerning the material covered in each chapter. Just one example of a useful tip; it concerns a simple way to minimize insect bites, especially those of mosquitos and gnats (which are a huge problem in Louisiana). If one significantly increases the consumption of garlic for about a week or two before going camping, mosquitos and other biting insects will pretty much leave you alone. Although I do not have any specific scientific evidence concerning this, the experiences of many, many camping trips in the Louisiana swamps attest to its effectiveness. Also, the type of shelter you build can have a major impact on minimizing most biting insects.This author hopes that everyone from the casual camper to the very ambitious camper will find some useful nuggets within the pages of this book, which will make any camping trip a more enjoyable experience.

This book is about the figures I capture in the clouds on a daily basis. Some arrive with a high-pitched melody. Some appear through my dreams first, but they all come together to form the beautiful pictures that I capture!

The delightful antics of five enthusiastic kids from Poplar Bluff, Missouri: Mackenzie, fifteen; Sasha, twelve; Booka, ten; Amariyah, eight (Mari the Munchkin); and YzaBella, six (Bella the Muffin). Along with their somewhat offbeat pets: Tanglefoot the Superdog, Hssss the Wondercat, and Walt-Hare (Rex), an Oryctolagus cuniculus (American rabbit). Bella said, "e;I asked for a puppy. They thought I said something 'fluffy.' All who communicate by holding up signs."e; (This is referred to as sign language.)Follow them on their daily treks, offering their views, opinions, and somewhat less-than-useful advice on topics ranging from family to friends, school to everyday life.

Are we alone in the universe?The answer becomes apparent when Mac becomes the first to journey from Earth and the Milky Way and lands on a planet in the Andromeda galaxy, where he meets the civilization that lives there. They call their home Jhalacalm.Mac's adventure begins with his ship's sarcastic computer (Doc) who somehow becomes sentient, and as time goes by, they become the best of friends. Mac falls in love, learns of another universe accessed by portals, delivers secret plans to that other universe, and becomes involved in a dangerous war that he knows nothing about. With Doc's help, he becomes a hero and a prince, all the while meeting new people of different civilizations who become his newfound friends.Mac's new life is only the beginning.

Suppose you are a modern person in the contemporary world and find yourself possessed of a power that obeys no logic and resists scientific examination. You can't provide proof of your ability, and the timing of the fulfillment is uncertain, but what you foresee always happens. David McIntosh was a normal, healthy kid for his first thirteen years. All that changes when he sees a black spot on his best friend's head. An hour later, his friend dies. David takes on guilt for his friend's death but tries to get on with life.The grief fades, the future beckons, then the spots strike again--twice! On a sports star and the mother of one of his friends. Both die, and David is left reeling.Blessed on one hand by success in business and love, David is also cursed by his ability. David struggles to find meaning in his curse through loves lost, trauma, the death of friends and family, and hardship. When his Grandmother dies, she leaves a letter containing clues about where he might find answers, sending David and his wife on a quest. The journey reveals an ancient matriarchal Celtic faith, that his an da shelladh (2nd sight) has a long history in Scotland, and that the sight often passes within families. As time goes by, he's relieved that his ability doesn't seem to have passed on to another generation--or has it? Rich in the history of Scotland and ancient faiths, An da Shelladh is a saga of love, suffering, self-discovery, and finding meaning in hardship that will leave the reader asking, what would I do in that situation?

Featuring the Tarver, Rollins, Cook, and Laird Families of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; including their migration north, east, and west. Families migrated to and from the old South, settling in places from California, Virginia, Florida throughout these United States. Cultures and traditions were passed down, merged, and spread from generation to generation.Throughout the history of this family, God is ever-present in the lives of all of them. They were God-fearing, Jesus-loving, Bible-believing people whose lives centered on their family and their church. There are over eight hundred names of our family spanning the pre-Civil War and post-Civil War era agrarian society to the modern mechanized culture--farmers' families turned into pastors, factory workers, mechanics, philanthropists, businessmen, doctors, nurses, and soldiers. This family is particularly focused around "the Greatest Generation," the generation that provided the men and women needed to stop the spread of the dictators' empires of World War II.Our family veterans fought in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the deserts of the Middle East in Iraq and Afghanistan. Families are documented in this genealogy history with the use of census, marriage, social security, birth, and death records. Obituaries of our ancestors, through their deaths, bring the families to life and bring them together. Military records honor those veterans who served our country in times of war and peace.

The first ten years of my career in education was as an elementary school teacher. Nevertheless, the focus of my book is on my twenty-three years as an assistant principal.Utilizing true stories and conversations, I attempt to illustrate how poor leadership transformed a once proud school district into Pittsville.There is no possible way that I would have ever attempted to write my story, had not my career taken so many twists and turns. Working for twelve principals, in spans that ranged from two months to seven and a half years, enabled me to develop my own set of strategies, learn what ideas worked, and accumulate enough stories that made me angry, made me laugh, and motivated me to write my story.In closing, bitterness is not a character trait becoming to anyone, yet bitterness is what motivated me to write my story.

Imagine my excitement. As a newly minted college graduate, I just arrived in New York City, soon to begin my first real job. I will be joining Peter and Wells, as an editorial assistant. I quickly signed a lease on an affordable apartment. To supplement my modest salary, I found a weekend bartending job at a popular restaurant. I reported early on Monday morning. After paperwork with the personnel department, I was introduced to Anne Hopkins, a senior editor, who would be my supervisor. She was a superb editor and an outstanding mentor/teacher. Meet Henry Smithe Weathersbee, Managing Editor, later Vice President of Publishing. In my early career, he was an exceptional mentor. I moved rapidly up the corporate ladder, thanks to strong mentorships, my diligent work habits and being the right person in the right place at the right time. I was given an exceptional opportunity to work with a newly signed, but difficult author. Larry O'Neil was a brilliant author and lived up to his reputation of being difficult. Larry is gay and has been in a long-term relationship. Working closely, we developed a productive relationship and became close friends. I met and married Natalie Hewitt, the daughter of a Chinese mother and a bi-racial American father. The family controls a worldwide corporation. Natalie gave me 3 magnificent children. In process of writing his novel, dealing with Sainthood, Larry has extensive contact with the Catholic Church and with a Msgr. Murphy. Larry reaches an independent decision to end his relationship with long-time partner and to abandon his gay lifestyle. Peter, the rejected partner, blames me and Msgr. Murphy for Larry's decision. He joins forces with Weathersbee and launches a substantial attack on me. In a Board meeting Weathersbee demands, that I be fired! He will resign if the Board rejects his motion. Peter initiates a lawsuit against Peter and Wells and me personally. My Perfect Life could now be ended!

The Perfect Melody is a searing psychological profile of what fame can do to a man, and how the woman who loves him can bring him back from the brink of insanity. Michael Beck has enjoyed more than his share of everything success has to offer. He has fame, fortune, fast cars, beautiful women, and a legacy which will endure well beyond his lifetime. Yet, for the past two years, he has existed on the very fringe of life, cutting himself off from the world that has given him so much, shutting down his emotions, feeling nothing but bitterness as he harbors a secret so dark that nothing can penetrate to save his soul. And then she shows up at his door. She threatens his well-ordered seclusion, rekindling long-dead feelings he has worked hard to repress. Juliette Winslow, her name alone is the stuff of songs and stories of tragic, immortal love. Her wealth of untapped beauty and untold resilience concealed just below the surface, she has lived the last six years of her life filled with heartache, anguish, and loneliness. Her one salvation may lie with a man so dark and cruel that the demons which rage within him threaten to keep them apart forever. If only she can break down his walls, find a way to touch his hardened heart and heal his tattered soul. Can she vanquish the vicious beast within him which threatens to consume them both?

In August 8, 1952, at just twenty-six years old, Mengue learned, while in Zoetele where she had gone with her four young children, the youngest one just three months old, that her husband had been killed in a traffic accident in Yaounde. Dulu, which means journey, is the story of this young woman as she tried to come to terms with her life, which had just been blown to pieces by this tragedy: the sudden and brutal realization that she was now the head of the family and the sole provider for her young children, something that she was totally unprepared for; the intense grieving she was going through; the greed and cruelty of her in-laws who had their eyes set on inheriting her late husband's assets and depriving her and her children; how to find the wisdom, strength, determination commitment to prioritize and fund the children's education; and the bewildering struggle to understand and internalize the fact that she and her children now faced a life without the man who had sustained and defined them. All this was happening in a society dominated by men and still under the grip of colonization. Perhaps, more than anything, her predicament forced her to have a fresh look at many of the things she had taken for granted all along including the prevalence of pain and suffering, her religious beliefs, and what determines what one becomes in life. For the first time, she became conscious that she was and had been different from almost everyone else around her in the village. For that reason, she came to the conclusion that she could confide her innermost thoughts, doubts, struggles, anguish, and challenges only to her husband through long late-night monologues: she could not trust anyone else. It is a journey filled with tragedy, loss, pain, and suffering--all of which she was able to overcome because she had a vision and hope for the future and a strong determination, courage, drive, will, and strength to fulfill her dream, her vision. In the end, it is a story of resilience.

By Dan Lee, former journalist and author of Indian ShadowI was sitting in a tree house, which was cozied up to the jungle, when Adelia came in. I'd known her for years, but we'd never met in person. She looked into my eyes and said, "I need a margarita." I felt empathy right away.Los Gatos Locos restaurant and bar is in Ojochal, Costa Rica, and is a tree house in the jungle. We go there to visit our son who owns the place. Adelia was in Costa Rica, scouting out a place to live, but had been visiting over several years. She was going to make the jump from Washington state for personal reasons.These vignettes give a flavor of what it's like to leave the US in your seventh decade, with what you can take on the airplane, and ship the rest in a container. Of course, you might be just sixty or even fifty, with a taste for adventure. The jungle will lower your blood pressure, and expat society is far better than looking at the UPS man on a bell cam.Behind the vignettes, the brightly colored houses, the friendly natives, and the ecological consciousness, there is the reality of the jungle. There are jaguars that follow the banks of a river, flocks of rainbow-colored parrots, bands of monkeys, snakes, caymans, and termites.I'll let you make up your own mind about eating termites. Adelia says they taste like peanuts. Or was it popcorn? Anyway, she's adventurous. You can be too. Buy this book.

My goal on this book is to make you aware of who you are and to make you realize that everything and anything you've learned about life is a concept that can disappear the same very moment that it came into existence. The universe as we know it is only a creation of our consciousness. The only tangible concept is our thoughts that light up whenever we accept them, but they can disappear just at once when we aren't conscious about it.The creation of consciousness is like a small light in the horizon that if you are not paying attention, you won't see it, and your life will be the same as it had been since you were born, influenced by your surroundings and everyone in your circle, instead of being the creator of you own existence.Once you discover your purpose in life and stay on that path, everything will come your way. The universal law will take care of all those things.Remember, the possibilities are endlessly waiting to be discovered. The answers and discoveries in this book are for you and yours only. The magic wand is in your hand, and what you do with it is your choice.

The reason for this book is to remind parents and guardians the importance of teaching children words while they are small. This will open doors later on in life for them. Remember, to equip a child with the best starts at home, not in school. Teaching a child words and how to use them builds character, confidence, and also awareness. Doing this will also help teachers when it comes to your child's learning. Their listening skills will be better, and with better listening skills often comes a better understanding that often helps their growth in every way. So we must learn to take advantage of this opportunity in teaching our children for they won't stay small forever.

Remy is a Pomeralien from the planet Pearth. One day, while traveling in his spaceship, he crash lands on a mysterious, but familiar planet full of new friends and all sorts of surprises. Come follow The Adventures of Remy the Pomeralien as he travels the globe to see the world, sees new sights, and even picks up a few souvenirs for his family and friends back home!

Invest your energies in your dreams, not your fears. The author was born in Petting, Germany, in 1946. At aged eighteen, he was looking for a new home in Canada. The young man's life was full of events, adventures, and varied experiences. He did not shy away from change or letting go. His energy and positive attitude allowed all his dreams come true. Ambition, discipline, and perseverance are the qualities that helped him to great success. He is telling his touching story, how the emigration came about, how doors opened for him, how he overcame obstacles, and how he is now looking back on his life. After thirty-four years, he was drawn back to his old country and to his new love.

The work is an elaboration of a short play about the vital importance of truthfulness in the lives and well-being of individuals as well as societies. It argues that the relative absence of this value from social and public life, despite its acknowledged importance, is because people lack the moral courage necessary to embody it in their personal, social, and professional lives. Examples of moral courage and the difference its absence or presence makes is pointed to through examples in politics, religion, sports, and social movements, with examples varying from Dietrich Bonhoeffer confronting Hitler to Simone Biles's stance against the Olympic establishment to the Mothers of de Plaza de Mayo resisting the military government of Argentina to Daniel Ellsberg's defiance of the Pentagon and US government in general. The work also demonstrates how a very short work of literature involving the life and deeds of a person with no apparent distinction can have profound universal significance. The lowliest among us is capable of moral courage.The Bangladeshi author of the play is a genius who merits further study.

This book, At Your Core, is part of your journey in finding your purpose in life. It will give you ideas to apply to your own life and help you have a better understanding of your emotions, feelings, thoughts, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs. Your core values determine what is important to you and will have an influence on your actions, reactions, and behaviors. By learning to control your mind, you will live a more fulfilled life with optimism, desire, and a positive attitude. You will learn to create your own positive energy that others are attracted to and want to be part of. You will use what you have learned to allow you to be fulfilled and have inner peace. The best way to become fulfilled is to develop your core values, make sure they align with God's expectations, and use your mind to control your thoughts, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs. By learning how to control your emotions, understanding how your mind and body work together, developing your core values, and having faith and the determination to make the world a better place, you personally will live a more fulfilled life with purpose!

The journey continues for Johnny and his friends. Johnny and Anna and Victor and Suzy go on a long summer vacation. They find many exciting things leading to another maze. At the finish, they find a dancer. She is behind some mist and haze.

Patrick Taylor, breaking onto the scene for the first time, brings a page turner that moves with such speed you will wonder where the pages went as he winds you through the streets tamed by code.Who's his friend; who's his foe? Where murder is always an option and money is always the motive, Tay tries desperately to balance loyalty, family, the drug game, building an empire, and the two loves of his life--all while trying to get it in and get out before getting locked into a game where everyone has a hidden past or a secret. Nobody is who they say they are, and only a few understand why certain lines, like certain rules, have to be crossed and broken.

The book is a coming-of-age story related to my grandparents' and parents' generations. I enjoyed listening to the stories of how my parents lived as teenagers and young adults, the skillset that they had which helped them make a way for themselves when they arrived in the City of Detroit, Michigan, in the fall season of 1952, a City which had at that time a population around 1.8 million people.Many people, like my parents, left small towns in the deep South, wanting a better opportunity for work and living. Education and a chance to build a better life for their children caused them to press their way to the big city.

This is a word-for-word record of divine communication between the author and God about the principles and proper application of forces of creation (the law of attraction) and the hazards of its misuse.A correct understanding of these principles is essential.If you've ever wondered why we can't seem to bring peace and abundance to our own lives and to the people of the world of earth and what we can do about it, the answers are in this book.The understanding and application of the principles here will usher in a new era of peace, love, health, and abundance for you, your family, and for humanity on earth into the future.Danica, a master of the spiritual realm, is here on a mission to educate humanity on earth about the principles of the forces of creation, the hazards of its misuse, and how not understanding the forces of creation (creating by default) has shaped our world.This book will teach people that are alive now how to take immediate control of their own lives, and it will do the same for people of generations yet to come.

We human beings have a very big problem with reality. We struggle to know and to understand nature, but we can never know the beginning, cause, and what reality is all about. Our physical sciences cannot give us a complete picture and explanation of reality nor of all the forces, powers, and energies in nature and whether the universe as we know it is all that there is, or is a mere insignificant fragment of an unknowable infinite cosmos and order of things. Our physical sciences do not even know the origin and source of the power and energy that make us live, why our physical life is passing away, and what happens after our physical death. Physicist scientist Max Planck in fact said that, "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, and that is because, in the last analysis, we are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." Religions on the other hand, are trying to fill in the gaps and are offering explanations to what our physical sciences have failed to provide answers. The truth of the matter is that neither science alone nor religion alone can give us a complete understanding of reality. They actually supplement and complement each other in our search for the truth. Physicist scientist Albert Einstein made this matter very clear that, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."This book is my struggle in the synchronization and synergy of religious beliefs and faith with the physical realities and actual discoveries of our physical sciences for their symphony and harmony in diversity in our quest to know the origin, power, and energy that created reality, of the irresistible inviolable laws governing it, and of mankind's existence and destiny in the way of the basic Law of Nature of Cause and Effect.VICK MAIZ BARCELON

Observations at the Speed of Life is a collection of stories that have been shared with others throughout a career of mentoring and motivating friends, family, and coworkers. Sometimes humorous, sometimes inspirational, and occasionally packed with wisdom. They are all about aspiring to be the best version of yourself. Some of the essays are very personal, and some are philosophical, but regardless, each one packs a message about hope and the value of persistence.This book is a result of more than forty years of preparing and writing weekly messages to the teams Ed managed. Those messages consisted of his workplace observations about performance, motivation, management, leadership, and integrity. They were timely lessons that could be applied immediately. When Ed transitioned to full-time consulting, those messages continued but in the form of a Wednesday Weblog to an international audience.The stories range from working as a pipefitter, third-class unskilled, during the Vietnam War to an all-night production session with Larry Bird making a television commercial, to befriending an eighty-year-old usher at Fenway Park, to running the Boston Marathon for the first time at the age of seventy, and everything in between.