She especially loves working with color and pattern, and is inspired by fairy tales, her children and the flora and fauna found in her garden and beyond. Diana paints with acrylics, and more recently collage is finding itself part of her art. She gained a Ba(Hons) at Kingston University, and has since illustrated many children’s books as well as adult fiction, editorials, gallery shows and design projects. Learn more at .ĭiana Mayo is a successful, freelance illustrator working in Chelmsford, just outside London. She was a contributing writer for Elephant Journal and has been featured in the Chicago Tribute, Well and Good NYC, MindBodyGreen, Yoga Journal, Working Mother, and Greenwich and Westport magazines. Social emotional learning books can help kids learn self awareness and self m. E F Jord Centerville-Juvenile Easy:AVAILABLE, Book Little Seed Pub Distributed By Global. Annie reads 'Yawning Yoga' written by Laurie Jordan, illustrated by Diana Mayo. She is a pioneer of kids’ yoga in Westchester and Fairfield Counties who created the area’s firstever Kids Yoga Teacher Training, which she continues to offer in several studios. Yawning yoga / written by Laurie Jordan illustrated by Diana Mayo. Starting with a gentle Om, Yawning Yogas simple instructions, gorgeous illustrations, and soothing poetry guide readers through a relaxing routine to end the day. A social worker turned yoga instructor, Laurie Jordan prides herself on using her unique expertise to provide insight and special solutions to her students.
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II.15 pariṇāma tāpa saṁskāra duḥkaiḥ guṇavṛtti virodhāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ Te hlādaparitāpaphalāḥ puṇyāpuṇyahetutvāt According to our good, bad or mixed actions, the quality of our life, its span, and the nature of birth are experienced as being pleasant or painful. II.14 te hlāda paritāpa phalāḥ puṇya apuṇya hetutvāt Sati mūle tadvipāko jātyāyurbhogāḥ As long as the root of actions exists, it will give rise to class of birth, span of life and experiences. II.13 sati mūle tadvipākaḥ jāti āyuḥ bhogāḥ Kleśamūlaḥ karmāśayo dṛṣṭādṛṣṭajanmavedanīyaḥ The accumulated imprints of past lives, rooted in afflictions, will be experienced in present and future lives. II.12 kleśamūlaḥ karmāśayaḥ dṛṣṭa adṛṣṭa janma vedanīyaḥ Dhyānaheyāstadvṛttayaḥ The fluctuations of consciousness created by gross and subtle afflictions are to be silenced through meditation. When “Silent Spring” was published, many of these practitioners pushed back, arguing that they had developed strategies for managing pesticide risks.Īrchival footage of crop-dusters spraying in California in the 1950s. They attended conferences, debated practices for applying pesticides and organized flight schools that taught agricultural science along with spraying techniques. But pilots and scientists took a much more cautious approach,” recounts University of Nebraska-Kearney historian David Vail.Īs Vail’s research shows, many crop-dusting pilots and university agricultural scientists were well aware of how little they knew about how these new tools actually worked. “Chemical companies made broad promises about these ‘miracle’ products, with little discussion of risks. Well before “Silent Spring” was published, a crop-dusting industry developed on the Great Plains in the years after World War II to apply newly commercialized pesticides. This divergence has echoes today in debates about whether organic production or steady improvements in conventional farming have more potential to feed a growing world population. 5-281) and other social teaching documents, call 80.Ĭopyright 2005, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. For a copy of the complete text of Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions (No. A full understanding can only be achieved by reading the papal, conciliar, and episcopal documents that make up this rich tradition. This summary should only be a starting point for those interested in Catholic social teaching. This environmental challenge has fundamental moral and ethical dimensions that cannot be ignored. We are called to protect people and the planet, living our faith in relationship with all of Gods creation. Care for the earth is not just an Earth Day slogan, it is a requirement of our faith. We show our respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation. The comedian Harris Wittels is responsible for the term "humblebrag", which means to boast about something in the guise of either it somehow being a problem or a source of overpowering wonder. In terms of pure skill, she may have surpassed all of them. Her peers include the likes of Raina Telgemeier, Vera Brosgol, Erika Moen and Meredith Gran, all of whom use variations on this stripped-down, cartoony and easy to parse style. Knisley arrived at this expertise by working like crazy few cartoonists her age (27) have cranked out as many pages as she has. Her understanding of gesture and body language using this cartoony style is spot-on indeed, it's easy to understand what's going on in the book simply by flipping through it and without reading the words. The control over her line that was crucial to developing her mature style is obvious, allowing her to become bolder and more experimental with the likes of page layouts, lettering and whimsical design decisions. The mix of color and crisp black & white in An Age of License makes this the first book of hers that truly showcases her abilities as a draftsman and a cartoonist. Relish saw her move into her mature style, though her line was occasionally overtaken by the First Second house coloring approach. She has markedly improved since French Milk, a book that was hobbled by the occasional and unfortunate juxtaposition of drawings and photos. First, let me discuss Knisley's many virtues as a cartoonist. Edwards Award and two Lambda Literary Awards under his belt, Levithan has been paving the way for queer writers and readers with his writing since the early 2000s. With more than 20 books and several awards including the Margaret A. While those themes are still present, he chooses to closely examine the links between morality and responsibility this go round instead.įor those who are new to Levithan’s novels, be aware that these themes are in no way confined to this series centering on A and Rhiannon. In Someday Levithan shifts his focus from the questions about gender identity and sexuality raised in the first book. And as Rhiannon learns the dilemma of A’s existence, readers must examine their own opinions about acceptance, respect, self-identity, and love. With no body to call home, A has a rather fluid idea about gender and attraction. But a chance meeting with Rhiannon at the very start of the book has A acting outside the norm, working to stick around longer than just a day, hoping to see that spark of attraction through to its conclusion. They’re careful about these borrowed lives, disrupting them as little as possible. A sees what it’s like to live as different genders, economic situations, educational backgrounds, ethnicities, and more. Every Day took readers on a wild ride through various identities as A, the main character, lives each day in the body of a different person. Contributors include Rudy Rucker, Bruce Gibson, Pat Cadigan and Paul DiFilippo. Editor Bruce Sterling is one of two key figures in the movement's development. Street-wise, high-tech and always at least a bit seedy, Mirrorshades is the defining collection of a dozen early cyberpunk short fiction stories. Adapted from the Hugo and Nebula award winning novelette published in 1983. As a result, an uplifting plague is unleashed which changes the course of history. He creates bio-computer microbes and - in classic mad scientist fashion - injects himself with them. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, the only cure is a conspiratorial cyber-satanic deal.īrilliantly unorthodox researcher Vergil Ulam is at odds with the authorities and loses his job. Caught in a double-cross, his brain pays the price. A computer cowboy jacks his mind into cyberspace and swipes information for sale to the highest bidder. Groundbreaking cyber-granddaddy of them all, this book won the 'Holy Trinity' of sci-fi awards (Hugo, Nebula, Dick). WORTH A CREDIT? Sorry, for me this time it’s a no. However, Teddy and Elizabeth did a great job with the dual POV storyline. There are also mental health and wellbeing issues in this one too. which is a “wow really?” because I’ve loved all her other books. However, I’m sorry but I just didn’t love this story. one of which was aggressive, brutal and caused bloodshed. Pike’s emotions are in turmoil over Mickey - can he trust the woman he loves and how far is he willing to go to protect her? Mickey’s emotions are in turmoil with revelations, twists and truths she uncovers. Mickey is set to carry out her revenge on the people responsible for her family’s deaths - the Leaders of the white supremacy the Fourth Reich. Pike has his Shop and drug business on the side. Two damaged characters living a twisted life. Now, for me, there’s been many many books in between the two so I had to go back and listen to Pike all over again to refresh. I broke my own rule when I listened to Pike (Book 1 of the Pawn Duet) but, in my defence, I didn’t realize it would be nearly six months before this second book’s release. And almost immediately, this mysterious affliction began to destroy her life. Overcome with dizziness and nausea, she managed to stagger back to her room.ĭuring that short but agonizing trip from the bathroom to her dorm room, Abby had little idea that she was also heading toward a new future as a chronically ill person. The agony radiated out from deep within her body.Īs she stood there, trying not to move, the stabbing sensations changed into a terrible ache that rolled over her abdomen and pelvis before snaking around to the base of her spine. She quickly realized it was everywhere, though not anywhere her hands could touch. She desperately patted down her body with her hand, trying to determine the source of the pain. Suddenly, it felt like someone was stabbing a knife through her midsection. But the moment the water hit her body, she knew something was terribly wrong. Still only half awake, she climbed into the shower and turned on the faucet. Abby got out of bed as usual and headed to the shower. That fateful morning began like any other. But one morning in 2010, dreadful pain – unexplained and unbearable – would rip her new life away from her. A student at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College with a prestigious scholarship, her days were packed with literature, dance classes and friends. Abby Norman was just 19 years old when the onset of excruciating pain changed her life forever. He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention.Crucially, he learned how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. I’m well aware of the irony of listening to an audiobook about focususually while doing other tasks. After listening, I picked up the ebook to focus more on his action steps. The author also does a great job of narrating the audiobook. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong.We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. What I appreciate about Hari’s work is how he takes a topic and looks at it in unique ways. Explicitly using the verb to steal here is akin to saying that our ability to focus hasn’t been merely directed to other things (like. Books often cost their authors a lot, and this book costed Johann Hari hundreds of hours of focus and deep research, and 30,000 miles of travel. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. Stolen Focus We are all prone to this temptation. |