Author: Walter HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Threshold of Discovery
Author: Walter HarrisonThreshold of Discovery
Author: Lisa VandiverPublisher: New Breed
ISBN: 9781724060457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Join Steaphan and Lorne with their son, Keilwen, and their unlikely allies as they search for a way home to their world while the Hellavey make plans of their own.
Threshold of Discovery
Author: L. Roger OwensPublisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640650512
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Thoughtful exploration of midlife spirituality through the prism of nature walks Roger Owens, facing a “dark night of the soul” as he turned forty and entered midlife, was encouraged by his spiritual director to think of it instead as a “threshold of discovery.” Rather than go on a grand adventure like walking the Appalachian Trail or the Camino de Santiago, he decided to mark his fortieth year by taking forty walks in a nearby nature preserve. With patience and attention, he explored the concerns rising with him: the inevitability of death, his boredom with life, and the reality of his changing faith, changing images of God, and changing sense of self. The result is forty short chapters that weave together insightful stories of his walks with accessible history and practices of Christian spirituality and the lives of saints. This field guide to the spirituality of midlife facilitates readers’ personal journeys through questions of faith, purpose, and relationships. It is not solely a memoir, but a work of wisdom literature that uses engaging first-person narratives to explore universal themes and spiritual inquiry. Wise and imaginative, and with study questions for each section, Threshold of Discovery is the companion guide for a thoughtful Christian journey.
Beyond the Threshold
Author: Edith Mary Kyazze NajjumaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Stepping Beyond the Threshold is the first step towards discovery. Self Discovery. To improve your communication skills, broaden your horizons, learn, explore or even mitigate criticism about you and your surroundings, and look at the world with a different view, starts by you taking that first step beyond your comfort zone. Beyond your Threshold. Your sense of curiosity will be awakened, your brain aroused and your mind stimulated. It's time for you to learn more, understand further. That's how you will discover that the world does not know who you are, where you come from and why, but uses that ignorance to misjudge and make false concrete misconceptions about you, or what you represent. To connect, understand and learn new and different things about yourself and others, the world around you and beyond, starts with that step. The world you think knows you so much does know you at all and the question is, how much do you yourself know the world? Because at the end of the day, you are a mystery out there. A mystery even to yourself. But it's not always about you. You must also consider the other person. Where do they come from, and how much exposure have they had about you as a person because most of the time, misjudgements and misconceptions about you are made, without having any knowledge about who you truly are. Beyond the Threshold is a journey, my journey, into understanding how much curiosity can be generated by conspicuousness. You are unique, there is an outstanding quality, a noticeable habit, oddness or wickedness about you. It's about how you get watched, observed, scrutinised, analysed. How the human being looks out more for what is different than consider any similarities. It's about what element of you is conspicuous to the world out there. Is it the colour of your skin? Where you come from? Your physical appearance? Beliefs? The way you dress up? How you speak? This is my story. What's yours?
Threshold
Author: Gregory SarnoPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595354807
Category : Cinema film authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Not everyone enjoys a globe-hopping lifestyle à la Indiana Jones and 007, or endures the emotional peaks and valleys of a Scarlett O'Hara or Blanche Dubois. But most of us do come of age sooner or later, which makes it easy to relate to the pivotal events involved in growing up. First crush. Dawn of sex drive. Loss of virginity. Breakup with sweetheart. Senior prom. Graduation day. Going off to college. In like vein, we're all familiar with the issues confronting adolescents. Forging an identity. Fitting in. Handling peer pressure. Bonds/bounds of friendship. Erosion of childhood illusions. Bridging the generation gap. Leaving the nest. Threshold: Scripting a Coming-of-Age offers film buffs and prospective screenwriters insights into the essential elements. Chapter 1 develops the four cornerstones of all scripts irrespective of genre. Chapter 2 covers the genre's distinctive features. Chapter 3 analyzes one classic coming-of-age in depth: River's Edge. Inspired by actual events, the 1987 film confronts its seventeen-year-old protagonist with a daunting threshold rarely encountered by mature adults. The book debuts three feature-film screenplays: "Homies"; "What Up Dawg"; "What Are Brothers For?" The respective protagonists--13, 19, 21--face age-appropriate challenges involving peer pressure, authority figures, and post-graduation blues.
The Threshold of Discovery
Author: United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Aging ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Discovery on the Threshold
Author: Emelie Agnes KenneyNew Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309157994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are making new connections to physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. Based on a broad and comprehensive survey of scientific opportunities, infrastructure, and organization in a national and international context, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics outlines a plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics for the decade of the 2010's. Realizing these scientific opportunities is contingent upon maintaining and strengthening the foundations of the research enterprise including technological development, theory, computation and data handling, laboratory experiments, and human resources. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics proposes enhancing innovative but moderate-cost programs in space and on the ground that will enable the community to respond rapidly and flexibly to new scientific discoveries. The book recommends beginning construction on survey telescopes in space and on the ground to investigate the nature of dark energy, as well as the next generation of large ground-based giant optical telescopes and a new class of space-based gravitational observatory to observe the merging of distant black holes and precisely test theories of gravity. New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics recommends a balanced and executable program that will support research surrounding the most profound questions about the cosmos. The discoveries ahead will facilitate the search for habitable planets, shed light on dark energy and dark matter, and aid our understanding of the history of the universe and how the earliest stars and galaxies formed. The book is a useful resource for agencies supporting the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over those agencies, the scientific community, and the public.
To Bless the Space Between Us
Author: John O'DonohuePublisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0385525648
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives. John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life. O’Donohue looks at life’s thresholds—getting married, having children, starting a new job—and offers invaluable guidelines for making the transition from a known, familiar world into a new, unmapped territory. Most profoundly, however, O’Donohue explains “blessing” as a way of life, as a lens through which the whole world is transformed. O’Donohue awakens readers to timeless truths and shows the power they have to answer contemporary dilemmas and ease us through periods of change.
To Pause at the Threshold
Author: Esther de WaalPublisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819225835
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
"A threshold is a sacred thing," goes the traditional saying of ancient wisdom. In some corners of the earth, in some traditional cultures, and in monastic life, this is still remembered. But in our fast-paced modern world, this wisdom is often lost on us. It is important for us to remember the significance of the threshold. While it is certainly true that thresholds mark the end of one thing and the beginning of another, they also act as borders-the places in between, the points of transition. These can be physical, such as the geographical borders of a country; others, such as the spiritual border between the inner and outer world-between ourselves and others-are intangible. In To Pause at the Threshold, Esther de Waal looks at what it is like to live in actual "border country," the Welsh countryside with its "slower rhythms" and "earth-linked textures," and explores the importance of opening up and being receptive to one's surroundings, whatever they may be.