Kirjahaku

When Sam Ray was killed at nineteen in an accident, his father began writing poetry dedicated to his memory. Sam's Book is a collection of these elegies and other poems written during Sam's lifetime. "How should I mourn?" David Ray asks. By recalling poignant events from the past he transcends his grief. He remembers Sam's first bath, a "holy/Rite"; tying the shoelaces of the "little man"; traveling to Greece, where Sam is "the first.../to see the holy moon." With painful wit and regret he summons up the image of his son's blue Toyota, fastidiously transformed by Sam and his girlfriend into a "love nest." Ray muses on what he taught Sam and what Sam taught him. Originally published in 1987, Sam's Book won the 1988 Maurice English Poetry Award.

This is the tale of Jefan and Yahir, two boys who fled Spain's "holy" Inquisition in the early 1500's. Jefan and Yahir inherited innumerable reasons to hate. And separately both these boys fled Spain for the Americas, Jefan went with a Jewish band of pirates and Yahir with a caravan of Moors. These communities intersected upon a mountain of southeast Mexico. I first heard their story while visiting Sephard, the community which evolved from the meeting of these boys so many hundreds of years ago. Sephard still exists within a large series of caves in a mountain in Southeast Mexico. Both its origin and what it's become is unique beyond compare. And perhaps it's all an inspiration of what other communities could become

A spiritual principality named Sister Mary Jacalyn was tried, convicted and burned at the stake in 1800 for witchcraft and murdering over two dozen children. Sister Mary Jacalyn has come back to the cities of Columbus, Port Clinton and Bellefontaine, Ohio where the descendants of those responsible for her death reside.Among her many abilities, Sister Mary Jacalyn can not only alter one's reality, but she can move a person through dimensions and time.Sister Mary Jacalyn has met up with the descendants of her trial judges, prosecutor and executioner. Her intentions are to send all of the descendants of Columbus, Port Clinton and Bellefontaine, Ohio to a dimension called The Nothingness.The Nothingness is a dimension void of time, and reality. There is only one chance of defeating Sister Mary Jacalyn's plans. Sister Mary Jacalyn has chosen the 8 descendants of her judges and her executioner and has given them 12 hours to uncover and to defeat her, but time is running out for these 8 descendants and the residents.

A spiritual principality named Sister Mary Jacalyn was tried, convicted and burned at the stake in 1800 for witchcraft and murdering over two dozen children. Sister Mary Jacalyn has come back to the cities of Columbus, Port Clinton and Bellefontaine, Ohio where the descendants of those responsible for her death reside.Among her many abilities, Sister Mary Jacalyn can not only alter one's reality, but she can move a person through dimensions and time.Sister Mary Jacalyn has met up with the descendants of her trial judges, prosecutor and executioner. Her intentions are to send all of the descendants of Columbus, Port Clinton and Bellefontaine, Ohio to a dimension called The Nothingness.The Nothingness is a dimension void of time, and reality. There is only one chance of defeating Sister Mary Jacalyn's plans. Sister Mary Jacalyn has chosen the 8 descendants of her judges and her executioner and has given them 12 hours to uncover and to defeat her, but time is running out for these 8 descendants and the residents.