![]() ![]() And the dullness that tarnished her ‘crystal-clear essence of knowing’ is just a highly refined or subtle thought. Her search for imperfection is our endeavor to wake up from distracting thought. Mae Chee Kaew’s meticulously scrutiny is analogous to the mental alertness that we aspire to in meditation. But when she looked at it more closely she began to notice that an equally refined dullness occasionally emerged to tarnish that radiant, crystal-clear essence of knowing.”Īlthough it may not be readily apparent, what the author describes is essentially the same meditation practice that you or I undertake each time we sit. The luminous mind appeared unblemished, untroubled and exceedingly pure at first. The author writes that Mae Chee Kaew “began to meticulously scrutinize her mind’s extraordinary radiance, looking for any signs of imperfection. Her Journey to Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenment.” By Bhikkhu Silaratano. ![]() I am intrigued by the following description of Mae Chee Kaew’s inner activity before her enlightenment, found in “ Mae CheeKaew. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Stephen king jfk book![]() ![]() Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life-like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963-turning on a dime. ![]() He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away-a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King-who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer-takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. ![]() Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The canterville ghost online![]() ![]() Laughton bares the tortured soul of Simon de Canterville for all to see. ![]() The comic elements are nicely done, but Laughton also has to project an air of resigned sadness at the fate he's been cursed with. This is a difficult part and only an actor of real talent and skill could carry it off. Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien are fine, but it is the multi-talented Mr. Will he perform the deed that frees Charles Laughton? Watch the film and find out. One in that platoon is a distant cousin from America, Robert Young. Enter a platoon of American rangers quartered at the manor house where the current lady of the manor, Margaret O'Brien is like so many in Great Britain in those years, playing host to American GIs. ![]() Breaking that curse is easier said than done because the cowardice was passed down several generations from Stuart England to World War II. Out of shame and embarrassment, his father bricked him up in a room in the manor and pronounced the aforementioned curse upon him. ![]() The first part of the film shows the incident where Sir Simon turns tail and runs from a duel he got involved in. Charles Laughton who made a career of playing tortured and twisted men goes one better here as Sir Simon de Canterville who haunts stately Canterville Manor until another Canterville performs a heroic deed and frees him from being earthbound. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems to encompass, in its narrow scope, all the anxieties and rewards, the political struggles and social changes of the American world. Drinking the Rain is a well-wrought paean to solitude and the delights that accrue from a simple, centered, and wonder-filled life.” “A beautifully written exploration of midlife spiritual transformation. every page thrilled me with a sense of amazed kinship and fresh discovery.” Shulman writes with such crisp clarity, skeptical wit, unegotistical honesty and ravishing sensual beauty that. “The book I loved most in the whole past year-I've been sprinkling copies of it like confetti, or a benediction, among my friends. From her bestselling novel, Memoirs of an Ex Prom Queen, to her brilliant memoir, Drinking the Rain, she has chronicled what it means to defy the expectations of family and society in order to map one’s own life. Shulman, it seems to me, is the feminist at her very best-tough and sassy, open and vulnerable, lovely and singing.” At twenty, Alix Kates Shulman wrenched herself from her middle class family and staked a claim to a fierce independence. The writing is supple, precise, rippling with grace the ideas are provocative the fierce struggle that inspired the writer, a source of deep gratitude. “A magical book that takes on the great, paradoxical challenge we all face: how to live vitally connected to the world and within the lone self at one and the same time. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments New york times dr lisa sanders![]() Errol Levine, a retired radiologist from Santa Fe, N.M., correctly identified theĭisorder as fibromuscular dysplasia, though he did not identify the cause of the tinnitus. Two previous winners of the “Think Like a Doctor” contest were the first to come up with part of the correct answer. The fistula and other visible vascular abnormalities were caused by… While several of you got half of the answer, as of this writing, no one put together both halves of the puzzle.Ī fistula between his vertebral artery and vein. You were asked to figure out what was causing this patient’s pulsatile tinnitus and why ![]() On Thursday we challenged Well readers with a difficult real-life case of a middleĪged man who developed chest pain that radiated to his neck, followed by a persistent and loud whooshing in his ear. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments John lewis graphic novel![]() ![]() Lewis’s co-author Andrew Aydin would have done well to help the congressman fill in some facts to help the reader along the way there’s an assumption that the reader will connect an awful lot of dots. ![]() There’s a date given, which the careful reader will realize is President Obama’s 2009 inauguration, but it’s not something the casual reader will pick up on right away. make a good framing device for Lewis’s recollections, but again, wish there were a few more details. The section could at least include the word Selma, or a date, for example. However, given that the goal of the book is to reach a wide audience that may not be familiar with the congressman’s past, I wish there were a few more details in those opening pages (and throughout the book). Rebecca: I also thought that starting with the “Bloody Sunday” incident in Selma-arguably the most influential event in Lewis’s long career-was effective. ![]() The framing and the pacing of the individual panels also work well, reminding me of Will Eisner’s sense of page design. ![]() James: I thought the storytelling was well done particularly starting with the incident on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, and then using the framing device of the constituents visiting Congressman Lewis’s office in order to allow him to tell his story in flashbacks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Evans says, “I felt closer to God as a teenager than at any other time in my life. And, like Evans, I was both a good girl and a smart girl, so I got good at defending my faith and coming up with answers to my own questions and the questions of others. Like her, I grew up in a church tradition that values certainty above almost anything else, that places great importance on knowing the reasons for your faith and being able to proof-text your way through “witnessing” to anyone who might question your beliefs. In my review of Boyett’s O Me of Little Faith, I said that I could relate to having been a lifelong doubter and questioner, and while this is true to a point, I can also relate to Evans’s early experience of certainty. The subtitle of Evolving in Monkey Town is “How a Girl who Had all the Answers Learned to ask the Questions,” and there are so many points in this memoir wehre I can relate to Rachel Held Evans. ![]() This is another book that fits in the same category as Matthew Paul Turner’s books and Jason Boyett’s O Me of Little Faith – young evangelicals who are admitting to serious doubts about the fundamentalist faith they were raised in, yet have chosen to explore and live with those doubts without abandoning the faith. ![]() ![]() There is a lot of math and science in the book, but it is not a dry book. It is a great book, written before Heinlein got into Free Love and when he thought Family and learning were important. I mention this, because I believe this should be a Sci-Fi Classic not a Contemporary. The original copyright was 1952 and there was a condensed version in Boy's Life. IT'S BEEN A HARD WEEK 2009 IS THE RENEWED COPYRIGHT. NINETY FIVE INDEED, LAST WEEK YOU WERE EIGHTY FIVE. Oddly enough, it's also a true example of real family values, for when you're a Stone, your family is your highest priority. This lighthearted tale has some of Heinlein's sassiest dialogue - not to mention the famous flat cats incident. ![]() ![]() Before long they are headed for the furthest reaches of the stars, with stops on Mars, some asteroids, Titan, and beyond. It all starts when the twins decide that life on the lunar colony is too dull and buy their own spaceship to go into business for themselves. Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the solar system in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. Of course, anyone who's met their grandmother Hazel would know they came by it honestly. Even so, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. It doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. One of Heinlein's best-loved works, The Rolling Stones follows the rollicking adventures of the Stone family as they tour the solar system. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The bellweather rhapsody![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Statewide, as the festival is called, is really a showcase of talent for scouts who will give some of the students a college scholarship and prestige, enabling these musicians to have their professional careers take off. Set in a dilapidated hotel in the Catskills of New York State during a weekend, statewide, high school music festival, Bellweather Rhapsody examines the lives of young musicians who are at a crossroads in their career. The novel is basically an examination of the lives of musicians, and how and why certain musicians might find success, while others don’t. Well, Kate Racculia’s sophomore novel, Bellweather Rhapsody takes that train of thought and runs with it. Did life just get in the way? Was the promise of a full-time job that actually paid the bills too tempting to resist? Or did they realize that they might not have enough talent to really make it, and decided to do something else? I sometimes wonder what happened to a few of them. As a music writer for PopMatters, I’ve seen a lot of artists and bands come and go. ![]() ![]() ![]() Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time) weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Ray Bradbury has covered the world indeed, universe with his themes: small-town America, Mars, fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The unclipped DJ is also Near Fine: bright & clean with NO fading or edgewear, but downgraded due to some shallow scratches to front cover, virtually invisible under the protection of a new mylar cover! Please see our photos-they show the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't have on hand! Photos & description sole property of Gargoyle Books. 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