5/13/2023 0 Comments Start here alex and brett harris![]() This tree has all the nourishment it needs. It lies at the lower part of our property, where the water sinks deep into the soil. In contrast, many protected and untested trees have long since fallen. It has lost many thick limbs, but others have grown, and harsh circumstances have made it stronger. ![]() I’ve taken pictures of my preschool daughters in that tree, and now of their children, my grandsons. ![]() ![]() Several times in the thirty years we’ve lived here, I thought it would fall. In our side yard a tree has survived ice storms, heavy snows, and howling winds. In my book If God Is Good, I talk about how the suffering and trials we face-the hard things-are steep hills that increase our spiritual lung capacity resistance builds our endurance. I’ve been in an email loop with Alex and Brett, and it’s wonderful to see God’s grace in their lives. Recently they posted a great follow-up, talking about their lives over a decade after the publication of Do Hard Things: (Here’s a powerful article we shared a few years ago from Ana, Brett’s wife, no stranger to suffering.) I love these two young men, and the wonderful wives God has given them. ![]() I keep in touch with Brett and Alex, and I followed up with a blog in 2015 talking about how both of them were continuing to do hard things. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Ghana must go book review![]() ![]() It was hard to understand the decisions he made and I sure wasn’t going to come up with excuses for him. I mean, good attempt but it didn’t work on me. It felt like the author was giving us reasons to understand the decisions kweku made and sort of empathize with him. I rushed through the third part as I was anticipating the reunion and homecoming! ![]() The book picked up in the second part and at this point I couldn’t drop it. I’m not sure if it was her writing style I needed to get used to or how repetitive it was but I pushed through. The first part of the book was a drag and a little too underwhelming. The first part of the book tells us about Kweku Sai’s life and death. It opens up with Kweku’s sudden death and then further delves into the moments leading up to his death and each member of his family and how they process the news. About the bookĭivided into three parts, Ghana must go follows the lives of Kweku Sai, a Surgeon, his wife and his children and how each one of them is affected by a decision he made. ![]() ![]() Trigger warningĬhild abuse, sexual abuse, eating disorder & suicide attempt. I read the paperback version which was given to me by my Brother-in law. Ghana must go is a debut novel by Taiye Selasi and is set in Ghana, USA and Nigeria. I decided to read it last year and I’m so glad I did. I have always wanted to read Ghana must go by Taiye Selasi but I’ve also always pushed it down my list. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Jane by April Lindner![]() Another, in a full skirt and flat shoes I coveted, listened to her iPod, Of the taupe sofa and was calmly reading InStyle magazine she wore faded jeans and a cardigan, her red hair tousled. The other applicants seemed to be college girls like me. How I imagined a nanny should look-tidy, responsible, wise.īut I had gotten it wrong. ![]() That morning, pulling my hair away from my face with a large silver barrette, determined to look the part of a nanny-or My heels, and I had to keep reminding myself to take small steps so as not to rip the skirt's satin lining. ![]() I'd had some trouble walking up the steps from the subway in my low pumps and narrow skirt. ![]() Nearest the exit, where, feeling like an impostor in my gray herringbone suit from Goodwill, I could watch the competitionĬome and go. The chairs in the lobby of Discriminating Nannies, Inc., were less comfortable than they looked. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Anne boleyn a kings obsession![]() ![]() When the King of England himself, Henry VIII, asks Anne to be his mistress, she spurns his advances-reminding him that he is a married man who has already conducted an affair with her sister, Mary. She also begins to understand the inequalities and indignities suffered by her gender.Īnne isn’t completely inured to the longings of the heart, but her powerful family has ambitious plans for her future that override any wishes of her own. There, and later in France, Anne thrives, preferring to absorb the works of progressive writers rather than participate in courtly flirtations. This strategic move on the part of her opportunistic father also becomes a chance for the girl to grow and discover herself. ![]() ![]() In this second novel of Alison Weir’s epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed author and historian weaves exciting new research into the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s most infamous wife, a woman ahead of her time whose very life-and death-forever changed a nation.īorn into a noble English family, Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family’s Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. ![]() ![]() After receiving a music diploma from Howard in 1913, she married George Overton, principal of the “colored schools” in Cumberland, Maryland. “I … worried myself sick and was under the doctor’s care for three weeks,” she wrote.Ĭarrie Burton’s letter, Laramie Boomerang, March 26, 1909.Ĭarrie eventually found happiness. Her letter (below) to the Laramie Boomerang mentions illness and hard work in her new environment. Life in Washington was initially challenging for Carrie. ![]() ![]() Buffum papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. ![]() Everybody in town felt we were family.” (Emphasis in original transcript.) In the 1969 oral history, Carrie recalled, “I have found there is no place like Laramie for good people. Jane Ivinson and others sponsored a 1908 fundraising concert to help pay her college expenses. Their glowing recommendations and Carrie’s own acumen gained her acceptance to Howard. After graduation, President Aven Nelson was among those at UW who encouraged her to apply to Howard University in Washington, DC. Article regarding a man’s molestation of Carrie Burton, Cheyenne Daily Sun-Leader, March 27, 1900.Īt age 15, Carrie entered UW Preparatory School where she became a certified stenographer and honed her piano skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Byrne also rode his bicycle to the gala, which would have come in handy for the long trek to the Temple of Dendur for dinner.) This year, David Byrne took up the challenge, leading his own band (with a megaphone) and snaking through the room like a pied piper. Last year, multiple Grammy winner Jon Batiste came through cocktails with his band, playing the melodica. One year a team of buglers did the trick. It’s a challenge every year, getting hundreds of guests to leave cocktails and walk through the museum to dinner. He recalled visiting Lagerfeld at his home in Biarritz, where, he said, “there was a whole entire room of these shirts.” He also praised his smarts: “Too often we don’t celebrate the intellect." The director was wearing a high-collared, starched white shirt, part of Lagerfeld’s personal uniform, with his Thom Browne ensemble. 5 commercial starring Nicole Kidman and had fond memories, saying the designer was constantly working, learning, and creating. The Australian director had worked with Lagerfeld on a Chanel No. The exhibit was indeed more crowded than usual during the gala, and one of the first to visit was Baz Luhrmann. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is to say, she is conscious of-and likewise calls her readers to be attuned to-the role played by power in the construction of interpretive knowledge. Barlas’s hermeneutic privileges the text without being strictly textualist. In the process, she critiques both those within her tradition who hold to fixed patriarchal or authoritarian readings of scripture and those outside of her tradition who believe that her efforts are futile. The intervention she makes is thus as useful to those studying the Quran (and scriptural interpretation more broadly) in the western academy as it is to Muslims searching for renewed ways to interpret their Divine Scripture in a more egalitarian spirit.īarlas cogently argues that just as patriarchy is read into the text, it can also be unread, and provides a methodology by which this can be done. In this revised edition of her classic and groundbreaking work, Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (University of Texas Press, 2019), Asma Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The incal humanoids![]() Especially as it gives Difool's pet bird, Deppo, the ability to speak. ![]() ![]() The first volume introduces us to John Difool, a low level detective, as he finds himself stuck in the middle of a battle for the titular MacGuffin, The Incal, which starts out as a glowing blue stone and just gets weirder as the story progresses. The earliest works in the series, from Alejandro Jodorowsky, Moebius, and Yves Chaland, as translated by Justin Kelly, are collected in English in The Incal – Volume 1: The Black Incal. ![]() It's space opera with hints of black humor, politics, and weird science that feels intrinsic to much of our current conceptions of how science fiction operates. It introduced us to the highly influential world of the “Jodoverse” -which would expand into The Metabarons, The Technopriests, and Megalex-inspiring and influencing works as wide ranging as The Fifth Element, The Authority, and The Expanse. emerson eddy - It's the 40th anniversary of Une Adventure de John Difool, more commonly known to us in English as The Incal, specifically as it was serialized in Métal Hurlant (the magazine that would be published in English as Heavy Metal) back in 1980 through 1988. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Swamplandia author![]() ![]() I grew up in South Florida and our family’s trips to the Everglades and to Key West probably form the literal bedrock of the Bigtrees’ strange world. I’m going to resist my inner list towards a terrible pun now (their world “sucked me in!” I was “swamped!” etc).Īnd the world of the novel really is, in kilometers, pretty close to home. ![]() Their world, “Swamplandia!” was a place I could really see in full color behind my eyelids, which doesn’t always happen. In the very first draft of this place that I wrote, Ava was a murderous boy named Hector and I believe my very wise, very kind professor actually sighed out loud after reading it and said, “Oh Karen-I just do not know what you are doing here.” And this was a bummer, because neither did I! All I knew was that, unlike my other characters, who generally left me alone after I ‘”finished” and published or abandoned a story, these Bigtrees kept rattling around inside my head. Where did you originally get the idea for this family?Ī: These folks have been around for years now-since I was 22. Q: “ Swamplandia!” is a continuation of the story of the Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty who we first met in “Ava Wrestles the Alligator”, a story that appeared in your debut story collection “St. ![]() Her new novel, SWAMPLANDIA! will be published in February 2011 by Alfred A. Karen Russell was recently chosen by The New Yorker as one of the “20 under 40” writers to watch. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Jeph loeb tim sale superman![]() ![]() ![]() Rated T+įull Color 2nd Edition - 1st printing. It's one of the most poignant Spidey stories ever told, by the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (DAREDEVIL: YELLOW, HULK: GRAY, CAPTAIN AMERICA: WHITE) - now looking better than ever on the oversized pages of a Gallery Edition! This is the story of how they fell in love - or, more appropriately, how they almost didn't! To get the girl of his dreams, Peter must run a gauntlet of the Green Goblin, the Rhino, two Vultures and a mysterious man in the shadows controlling it all. ![]() What Peter Parker didn't know was that Gwen Stacy would only get to spend the rest of her life with him. "It's about remembering someone so important to me I was going to spend the rest of my life with her." If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.ġst printing. ![]() |