Love is a beautiful thing, and we can find it in everything if we just look deeply enough.You can find love and romance. You can see the beauty in life and everything around you. You can accept the loss of a loved one. All you need is to understand that unconditional love begins with you.This collection of spoken-word poetry centres the reader on that journey of inspiration. Covering topics ranging from relationship and dating advice to self-love and happiness, it has something for everyone. If you are in a relationship and want to keep the fires burning, you will find inspiration in these poems. If you struggle with depression, you will see a reflection of that struggle here. If you want to learn how to love yourself, you can do that-and so much more.Open your imagination and take a journey into the force at the heart of everything: love itself.
Love is a beautiful thing, and we can find it in everything if we just look deeply enough.You can find love and romance. You can see the beauty in life and everything around you. You can accept the loss of a loved one. All you need is to understand that unconditional love begins with you.This collection of spoken-word poetry centres the reader on that journey of inspiration. Covering topics ranging from relationship and dating advice to self-love and happiness, it has something for everyone. If you are in a relationship and want to keep the fires burning, you will find inspiration in these poems. If you struggle with depression, you will see a reflection of that struggle here. If you want to learn how to love yourself, you can do that-and so much more.Open your imagination and take a journey into the force at the heart of everything: love itself.
After trading his tranquil Staten Island existence for a flat in the city and an editorial position at the New York Herald, William Nesmith anticipates as easy and uneventful a transition from bachelorhood to marriage-as soon as he's prepared to ask the vivacious Violet Chapin for her hand. Though Violet longs to climb the social ladder Will scorns, she seems willing to wait for him-and wait she must, for Will intends to make his way without the assistance of Violet's well-to-do connections.Whether that's a vow he can keep comes into question when he runs afoul of Charlie Kohlbeck, a capricious reporter with a keen eye for a story and the flexible ethics to dig up any secret, whether hidden in Manhattan's darkest corners or the grand marble halls of its social elite. When Will is ordered to work with him so they'll come to better appreciate each other's talents, Charlie takes him along on the hunt for an interview with the elusive Lord Belcourt. It's a meeting every reporter in town is after, but Charlie gains an audience by introducing Will as one of the wealthy California Nesmiths-a lie that sets Will on a path up the social ladder at a speed no respectable gentleman could stomach.Offered his own society column if he prolongs the charade, Will wants nothing more than to escape the bevy of eager debutantes on his trail and make peace with a very vexed Violet. But when he helps a shy heiress menaced by swindlers, he's caught in a tangled web turned dangerous and must put his faith in Charlie Kohlbeck-who may possibly prove the one road to ruin Will is defenseless to resist.
The life of a teenage mother can be full of trials. She is young and still trying to figure out who she is while having the responsibility of caring for another human being. She often wonders, "Will I be a good enough mother? Can I take care of them? Will my child love me or hate me for bringing them into this type of life?" The trials in her mind are what she has to overcome first before she is able to defeat the trials of life. In Volume 3 of this anthology series, you will read the extraordinary stories of six women who were built to Triump Over Trials. They made it through as young mothers and are now very successful, professional women. They have proven that Giving Up Is Never An Option.
The Bachelor franchise has been around for over two decades and amassed an army of fans across its four shows. While contestants battle to prove they’re here for the right reasons, Bachelor Nation is confronting their own question—Why are we here and why can’t we stop watching?Devout franchise fans Ilana Masad and Stevie Seibert Desjarlais pose the big questions to Bachelor Nation: Who are we? What does the franchise mean to us? And seriously, why on earth can we not stop watching?For years, fans of the Bachelor franchise have laughed with and at contestants; cried along with their heartbreaks; tuned in again and again each season despite feeling betrayed by producer and contestant decisions alike; and celebrated, alone and together, the love (or loveless) lives of perfect strangers on our television screens. And we wonder, really, why? With reality TV broadly characterized as “trash TV,” why are so many intelligent, funny, and critical people watching and discussing it?Here for All the Reasons seeks to answer this question, diving into the complex negotiations of gender, racial, and class politics that arise within the fandom. This anthology is a polyvocal exploration of Bachelor Nation for Bachelor Nation. So, will you accept our rose and join the chat?
"Alles zwischen uns - und nichts, was uns noch bleibt" erz hlt in Form von Gedichten, die Geschichte von zwei jungen, sich liebenden Menschen, deren Bem hungen aneinander festzuhalten, immer wieder an den Hindernissen des Erwachsenwerdens zerschellen und zeigt uns, dass Liebe vielleicht alles schaffen k nnte, es aber vielleicht gar nicht k nnen m ssen sollte. Es ist eine Geschichte ber Freundschaft, Liebe und tiefe Verbindungen. Eine Geschichte ber das Loslassen wollen, den unsagbaren Wunsch sich f r einen Menschen ndern zu k nnen und den Schmerz, den die momentane Unf higkeit dazu, mit sich bringt.
The gospel teaches that every human is sacred. Refugee children and Islamist terrorists. Police officers and young African Americans. Unborn babies, always, and also abortionists. Orange-haired casino owners, former First Ladies, progressive hipsters, prosperity-gospel televangelists, members of Congress, Confederate-flag-waving white nationalists? Sacred. This absurd claim is at the heart of the gospel. Each person is created in the image and likeness of God. Each is someone for whom Jesus died. And if this is true, we have much work to do. The writers in this issue may not agree on the best ways and means, but each challenges us to consider the implications of this gospel of life that makes no exceptions. Also in this issue: -- A former asylum seeker returns to Iraq to stand with Christians on the run from ISIS. -- Shane Claiborne tells us why abolishing the death penalty is the church’s business. -- Joel Salatin, America’s most famous farmer, reveals what pigs can teach us about the glory of God. -- John Dear reports on the Vatican’s historic turn toward nonviolence. -- Erna Albertz tells Richard Dawkins how her sister with Down syndrome can help him. -- Gun owners respond to gun violence with a fresh take on “swords into plowshares.” -- Ron Sider looks at the consistently pro-life witness of the early church. -- A hospice nurse reflects on euthanasia and the value of being a burden. -- Jason Landsel asks what made MohammadMuhammad Ali great. Then there’s new poetry, book reviews, a children’s story, insights from Pope Francis and George MacDonald, and art by Pawel Kuczynski, Xenia Hausner, William H. Johnson, Käthe Kollwitz, and Deidre Scherer. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.
Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy. In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience. John Krizanc’s masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, Tamara is an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.
