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Author: Janice Marler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Come, walk with me through my gardens of vignettes, poetry, and humor."Grandma's Wisdom or Not" reveals my journey of eighty-one years. Like most lives, happiness and sorrow have been companions. Thankfully, joy has been a close friend. This book is filled with honesty, sensitivity and what I deem as lovely and beautiful. I have painted visible pictures with words that speak to you. Since I love to laugh, tell jokes, and create laughter in others, this book contains laughable moments. The content will also bring tears to your eye as it did mine when I composed it.Some have told me they like the way I am able to touch the hearts of those who read my poetry. I cried when I wrote "First Kiss." The memory of growing up in the time of wars provoked this poem. My grandson, Ben Ratcliff, was in the army when the poem came to fruition. You might say he inspired me. Another grandson, Dusty Ratcliff, keeps me laughing with his off-the-wall comical comments. Comedy plays an important role in this book.The short stories are all true with one exception- the vignette, "The Dream." "The College Student" reminded me of myself when at the late age of forty-four, I entered the police academy; and at the age of fifty-two, I furthered my education by taking college courses. Being around the college students led me to write some of the enclosed materials. They also caused me to appreciate my age.My inspirational poetry will hopefully light a wick in the souls and spirits of those reading the poems. Christianity is a way of life for the imperfect; it's not just a word.Writing this book has been a dream fulfilled. Please enjoy and may it touch your heart.
Author: Janice Marler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Come, walk with me through my gardens of vignettes, poetry, and humor."Grandma's Wisdom or Not" reveals my journey of eighty-one years. Like most lives, happiness and sorrow have been companions. Thankfully, joy has been a close friend. This book is filled with honesty, sensitivity and what I deem as lovely and beautiful. I have painted visible pictures with words that speak to you. Since I love to laugh, tell jokes, and create laughter in others, this book contains laughable moments. The content will also bring tears to your eye as it did mine when I composed it.Some have told me they like the way I am able to touch the hearts of those who read my poetry. I cried when I wrote "First Kiss." The memory of growing up in the time of wars provoked this poem. My grandson, Ben Ratcliff, was in the army when the poem came to fruition. You might say he inspired me. Another grandson, Dusty Ratcliff, keeps me laughing with his off-the-wall comical comments. Comedy plays an important role in this book.The short stories are all true with one exception- the vignette, "The Dream." "The College Student" reminded me of myself when at the late age of forty-four, I entered the police academy; and at the age of fifty-two, I furthered my education by taking college courses. Being around the college students led me to write some of the enclosed materials. They also caused me to appreciate my age.My inspirational poetry will hopefully light a wick in the souls and spirits of those reading the poems. Christianity is a way of life for the imperfect; it's not just a word.Writing this book has been a dream fulfilled. Please enjoy and may it touch your heart.
Author: Agnes Baker Pilgrim Publisher: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 1504693558 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, is in her nineties and is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie travels tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice for the voiceless, helping everyone to remember to preserve our Earth for animals and each other in a spiritual environment. Considered an excellent speaker, she has mesmerized her audience wherever she appears, and now her wit, wisdom, memories, advice, stories and spirituality have been captured for all to hear. Honored as a “Living Cultural Legend” by the Oregon Council of the Arts, Grandma Aggie here speaks about her childhood memories, about her tribe and her life as a child growing up in an area that often didn’t allow Indians and dogs into many public places, as well as about such contemporary issues as bullying, teen suicide, drugs and alcohol, Pope Francis, President Obama, water conservation, climate change, and much more. This is an amazing recording of one of the oldest and most important voices of the First Nation and of the world. Her stories and advice will mesmerize and captivate you, as well as provide a blueprint for how all the inhabitants of the earth can live together in harmony, spirituality, and peace.
Author: Jean Tindle Publisher: Star of Light Publications ISBN: 9780997460070 Category : Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
For those people who are in the process of "no longer playing small" this book is medicine for the soul. It contains the wisdom I wish I would have known and spoken throughout my life. It is the second chance for my grandmothers (and all women) to have their voices heard. I invite you to join my grandmothers. Sit down with a cup of tea and a scone, and delve into the wisdom that comes from beyond the beyond. If you enjoy the book, I would love it if you would consider leaving a short review on Amazon where you found it.
Author: Belinda White Thomas Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1984555995 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 46
Book Description
Have you ever been in the presence of older persons who were speaking on a subject, but it sounded like they didn’t know what they were talking about? Well, I have! When you’re young, it’s baffling! As you grow older, their conversation makes more sense. Over the years, I listened to my grandmothers and to other older persons, and I picked up on the meaning of their conversations. “Gramma Said . . .” is a compilation of sayings mostly by my grandmother, Mrs. Marie Virl Page Blackwell McGill. I started writing them down because my sister, Deborah, and I always quoted her in our conversations. There are also some statements from my paternal grandmother, Mrs. Eleanor Minerva Moore White; my dad, Mr. Thurman White Sr.; my mother, Mrs. Rosa Vermell Blackwell White; my maternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Laura Anna Willis Page; and as well as other people in whose presence I have been from time to time. This book will delight the readers and bring back precious memories of their elders.
Author: Elaine L. Mroczka Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1637104685 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 49
Book Description
Wisdom is a gift received from traveling life's journey. Everyone experiences situations in life, though unique to them, that are either pleasant or painful. Grandma's charming, witty, and heartfelt sayings may be familiar and others not so much. But most everyone can relate to all of them. May these sayings provide renewed purpose, courage, strength, and inspiration, helping to navigate through the joys and challenges in life. They truly are "gems of wisdom"!
Author: Carol Schaefer Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 0834824175 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions that would affect the whole community. What if we consulted our wise women elders about the problems facing our global community today? This book presents the insights and guidance of thirteen indigenous grandmothers from five continents, many of whom are living legends among their own peoples. The Grandmothers offer wisdom on such timely issues as nurturing our families; cultivating physical and mental health; and confronting violence, war, and poverty. Also included are the reflections of Western women elders, including Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Carol Moseley Brown.
Author: Adèle Geras Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780375822858 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
As a young girl spends time at her grandmother's apartment, she is treated to traditional Jewish tales, including "Bavsi's Feast," "The Golden Shoes," "The Garden of Talking Flowers," and "A Phantom at the Wedding."
Author: Lois Wyse Publisher: Harmony ISBN: 0307803074 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
Smart, warm, telling, and funny, Funny, Your Don't Look Like a Grandmother is the perfect bouquet for today's grandmother, that active and interesting woman who is old enough to be somebody's grandmother and young enough to run around the world. Lois Wyse's new book, charmingly illustrated by Lilla Rogers, is a collection of wit and wisdom for today's Nana, Grandma, Goo-Goo, or Gran. How can you recognize today's grandmother? Easy, says Wyse. The grandmother is the one who goes out more and complains less than her daughter. In the spirit of Erma Bombeck and Bill Cosby, Lois Wyse tells loving and amusing stories that illustrate the joys of contemporary grandmothering. According to Lois Wyse, "A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do." Contemporary grandmothers and their children and grandchildren will see themselves in these reflections of family life that include everything from how it feels to become a grandmother to gentle advice on parenting and career grandmothers. Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother is the first nontraditional book about grandmothers who may not look like grandmothers -- but who love as deeply as the generations of grannies who preceded them.
Author: Alysia Burton Steele Publisher: Center Street ISBN: 1455562831 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 397
Book Description
Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
Author: Janice Marler
Author: Janice Marler
Author: International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
Author: Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Author: Jean Tindle
Author: Belinda White Thomas
Author: Elaine L. Mroczka
Author: Carol Schaefer
Author: Adèle Geras
Author: Lois Wyse
Author: Alysia Burton Steele