[PDF] How To Carry Water eBook

Author : Joshua Medcalf
Publisher : Lulu Publishing Services
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781483441788

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Guided by "Akira-sensei," John comes to realize the greatest adversity on his journey will be the challenge of defeating the man in the mirror. This powerful story of one boy's journey to achieve his life long goal of becoming a samurai warrior, brings the Train to be CLUTCH curriculum to life in a powerful and memorable way. Some things you will learn... -No matter how it feels, you are always building your own house. -How and why you must surrender to the outcome in order to be at your best. -Why you never want to have your identity wrapped up in what you do. -Why your strength lies in faithfulness to the little things. -How to develop a heart posture of gratitude. -How to use the biggest challenges as a training ground for greatness. -Why the process is more important than the goal. -Why comparison is the thief of all joy. -How to develop a growth mindset. -Why talent is more of a curse than a blessing. "So many valuable stories and lessons!" -Nick Ahmed, Arizona Diamondbacks

Author : Lucille Clifton
Publisher : BOA Editions
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2020
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9781950774159

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"A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--

Author : Rick Fields
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1984-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0874772095

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More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote: Magical Power, Marvelous Action! Chopping Wood, Carrying Water... The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life. It is the greatest challenge for people living in contemporary society to find the spiritual aspects of working in an office, store, or factory; balancing a checkbook; raising a family; or making a relationship work. How can we make all these daily activities a part of the path? How can we apply the insights of great spiritual traditions, and our own experience, to the way we live and develop? This book is a guide - a handbook filled with information, advice, hints, stories, inspiration, encouragement, connections, warning, and cautions, for the inner journey as we live throughout our lives. Chop Wood, Carry Water contains much ancient wisdom, but the emphasis is on contemporary perceptions. Many of our guides have been known to humanity for millennia: they are the world's great spiritual teachers- Christ, the Buddha, Loa Tse, Confucius. Others are contemporary teacher and healers, widely recognized and respected. All offer ways to integrate the events, our focus on relationships and family, our struggle with technology, money, politics and more- into the quest for spiritual fulfillment.

Author : Lucille Clifton
Publisher : American Poets Continuum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781934414903

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Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton's published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.

Author : Quang Thiều Nguyễn
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558490871

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Bilingual in format, this work is a collection of poems by a Vietnamese writer of the post-1975 generation. The poems are rooted in a culture that honours place and respect to landscapes of the past, present and future with contemporary juxtapositions.

Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547251270

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

Author : Ethan Canin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2001-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1588360075

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“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate — a shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II, the audacious decision to start a brewery in Pittsburgh and a violent reaction against threats to its independent success, a vacation in Barbados, during which his beloved wife mysteriously wanders off, the birth of his grandson — August’s instincts are determinative in a way that illuminates how lives unfold at the deepest levels. This is a brilliant, suspenseful, surprising novel by one of America’s finest writers. Publisher’s Weekly called Ethan Canin’s For Kings and Planets “Masterful … a classic parable of the human condition,” and the same can be said about Carry Me Across the Water.

Author : Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062045989

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"Sentimental and ferocious, upsetting and tender, firmly magic-realist yet utterly modern. . . Sáenz is a writer with greatness in him." —San Diego Union Tribune With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Sáenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient. This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed— or that they tried to forget.

Author : Angie Cruz
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250208440

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story “Will have you LAUGHING line after line...Cruz AIMS FOR THE HEART, and fires.” —Los Angeles Times "An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." —The Washington Post Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight. Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.

Author : Jonathan Roth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004112711

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This work is devoted to a study fo Roman logistics from the Punic Wars through the Principate. It explores various aspects of supply: rations, trains, foraging, supply lines; administration and logistics in warfare. The book traces the increasing sophistication of the Roman military supply system.