![]() ![]() I’ve been minding my own mind on the cushion for five days, but now I have a job. ![]() It is my first weeklong dai- sesshin retreat. His warm blue eyes are a good place for your own eyes to land when you’re anxiously glancing to and fro. He looks up at me from under vintage wire-rim glasses. ![]() In my first memory of Daishin, he is on his knees, tucking the top kimono part of my disheveled student robes into the bottom hakama part. Let’s just say the whole book was inspired by a true story-as if there were such a thing.” They are the fever dream of a man wrestling with his memory, his teacher, his lovers, his peers, and himself. The stories told are not a record of objective reality. (I rarely use real names excerpt for pets.) I call this genre personal mythology. As the author writes in the introduction of his book, Single White Monk , “ This book is a collision of journal entries, reportage, creative misremembering, and fictional devices including compressed and invented events and characters. In the following story, some of the details have been changed. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie![]() ![]() It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today. ![]() ![]() ![]() From encouraging her to choose a helicopter and not only a doll as a toy if she so desires having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the 21st century. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications. Here are 15 invaluable suggestions - compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive - for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Quotes Showing 1-30 of 213 Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ty seidule robert e lee and me![]() ![]() Army officer in 1846 as he headed to fight in Mexico, he estimated his net worth at $40,000 in stocks, bonds, and property, including enslaved workers, or more than $1.3 million today. In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidules Robert E. ![]() By the time he wrote his only will as a U.S. ![]() During his many years in the army, Lee hired out those enslaved workers and pocketed the profit, creating wealth. ![]() Custis owned two other enslaved labor farms-Romancoke and White House.Ī year after marrying Mary Custis, Lee inherited enslaved workers from his mother’s estate. Enslaved labor created much of his wealth including the prestigious, Doric-columned Arlington House with its commanding view of the capital. Custis earned his money through inheritance, and that inherited wealth derived from the work of enslaved labor. At the age of twenty-four, two years after graduating from West Point, Lee married Mary Custis, the only child of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of George Washington. It is an introspective and personal account that looks straight at the horrors of the Lost Cause and the damage it. Lee and Me Ty Seidule Professor Emeritus of History at West Point ON SALE NOW A powerful and introspective look into white Americans’ continuing romance with the Confederacy, and the lasting damage that has done. “While Lee believed in slavery, he also profited from it far more than other army colonels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Temple Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to a thrilling journey into the heart of the autism revolution.Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show us which anomalies might explain common symptoms. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies have moved from the realm of psychology to neurology and genetics, and there is far more hope today than ever before thanks to groundbreaking new research into causes and treatments. ![]() Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later she would work with photographer Bill Richardson. “If it hadn’t been for the two of them I wouldn’t have taken my photography seriously,” she told Time Magazine. After taking a workshop conducted by Richard Avedon and “art director” Marvin Israel, they became her mentors. ![]() From there she worked for Mademoiselle in the editorial department, then as a fashion editor for Harper’s Bazaar.įrustrated by her inability to find a photographer who could capture her vision and execute it, she become a photographer herself during the 1960s. From her start in the fashion industry, she was surrounded by talented people including fashion designer Clare McCardell, whom she worked with as an assistant and fit model. ![]() Intense, shy, and introspective her talent was subtly wrapped up in a childhood rife with isolation and poignancy.Įducated at Brimmer and May School in the Bay of Boston her love for snow-covered landscapes, illuminated windows, fog, wind, and turbulent seas stayed with her, from this time, and often showed up in her later images. Later, when the fashion bug hit her, she relocated to New York. American photographer, Deborah Turbeville, (July 6, 1932-October 23, 2013) was originally from Stonham, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() She should follow the rules of her conservative community-the rules that have been ingrained in her since she was a child.īut Hannah longs to be with Baker, who cooks macaroni and cheese with Hannah late at night, who believes in the magic of books as much as Hannah does, and who challenges Hannah to be the best version of herself.Īnd Baker might want to be with Hannah, too-if both girls can embrace that world-shaking, wondrous possibility. She should cheer on her friend Clay when he asks Baker to be his girlfriend. Hannah knows she should like Wally, the kind, earnest boy who asks her to prom. The last thing she wants is to fall in love with a girl-especially when that girl is her best friend, Baker. She wants to spend every night making memories with her tight-knit group of friends. She wants to drive along the oak-lined streets of Louisiana's Garden District and lie on the hot sand of Florida's beaches. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Heart berries mailhot![]() Mailhot has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder, which impact and inform her reactions and descriptions. ![]() "I was illustrating how crazy my mind was, the line gets blurred in time and space," she said. The language of the book also reflects the state of Mailhot’s mind when she started writing this book, when she was committed to a mental institution and composing letters in a notebook to the man who would become her husband, writer Casey Gray. You might tear through this book quickly, but it will not be an easy read. The spartan language means the reader has to do more work, which is just as Mailhot planned. "I’m talking about intergenerational trauma without using the words." "I opted for striking with a lot of blank space," Mailhot said of the book, released in 2018. Mailhot said this book is composed the way her mother would have written it, a work of tonally diverse art. Her mother would spend evenings writing poetry at an electric typewriter. Mailhot, 36, wrote this first book in homage to her mother, who died more than a decade ago. In the book’s spare prose, author Terese Marie Mailhot describes her experience growing up in poverty, amidst addiction and abuse on the Seabird Island Band in British Columbia, or as she calls it, the "Rez." ![]() ![]() ![]() Slender yet epic, " Heart Berries" is a 124-page hearty and heavy powerhouse of a memoir. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Duke with the dragon tattoo![]() ![]() “Byrne is a force in the genre.”- RT Book Reviews ![]() But can she trust a man who’s been branded a rebel, a thief, and a killer? And can she trust herself to resist him when he takes her in his arms? Like a phantom, he sweeps back into her life and avenges those who wronged her. Now, after all these years, The Rook has returned. And when he left, he took a piece of her heart with him. Crippled as a child, she devoted herself to healing the poor tortured man. ![]() Lorelai will never forget the night she rescued the broken dark angel in the woods, a devilishly handsome man who haunts her dreams to this day. And who calms the restless demons in his soul… His only hope for survival-and salvation-lies in the deep, fiery eyes of the beautiful stranger who finds him. He awakens in a mass grave, a magnificent dragon tattoo on his muscled forearm the sole clue to his mysterious origins. A man with no name, no past, no memories. These are the men who risk their hearts and their souls-for the passionate women who dare to love them… ![]() Kerrigan Byrne returns to her captivating Victorian Rebels series with the USA Today bestselling The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers.-From publisher descriptionĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:34:50 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA121017 Boxid_2 CH103901 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs-these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Prologue : The lost century - Vinland : first contact - 1492 : the hidden half of the globe - Santo Domingo : the Columbus jinx - Dominican Republic : you think there are still Indians? - The Gulf coast : naked in the new world - The Southwest : to the seven cities of stone - The plains : sea of grass - The South : De Soto does Dixie - The Mississippi : conquistador's last stand - Florida : fountain of youth, river of blood - Roanoke : lost in the lost colony - Jamestown : the captain and the naturals - Plymouth : a tale of two rocksĪn irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. " Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. The 1939 letter has Father Christmas making reference to the Second World War, while some of the later letters feature Father Christmas' battles against Goblins, which were subsequently interpreted as being a reflection of Tolkien's views on the German foe in the War. The stories include descriptions of the massive fireworks that create the northern lights and how Polar Bear manages to get into trouble on more than one occasion. ![]() ![]() They document the adventures and misadventures of Father Christmas, described as the brother of Green Brother and son of Grandfather Yule, and his helpers, including the North Polar Bear and his two sidekick cubs, Paksu and Valkotukka. The stories are told in the format of a series of letters, told either from the point of view of Father Christmas or his elvish secretary Ilbereth. ![]() |