Poetic Prose, Passionate writings, and Poetry by the man behind the Facebook pen name, The Ruined man This Second book in the collection by Christopher Whitney and is bigger and better than the last! inside you will discover Pieces focused on love and life, death and pain, heartbreak and depression. Chapter Two will dive into the topic of things that seem to be difficult for most to speak about. Greatest fears and emotions that Society teaches you not to express. If you do enjoy the book, please feel free to follow Christopher on Facebook or instagram: TheRuinedManOriginal Be sure to come back here to review my work too as I really appreciate that and it helps me out. Thank you again, for being part of this journey.
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, argues that more immanent or planetary ways of thinking and acting have great potential for re-thinking human-technology-animal-Earth relationships and for addressing problems of global climate weirding and other forms of ecological degradation. Older and often-marginalized forms of thought from animisms, shamanisms, and other religious traditions are joined by more recent forms of thinking with immanence such as the universe story, process thought, emergence theory, the new materialisms (NM’s), object-oriented ontologies (OOO’s), affect theory, and queer theory. This book maps out some of the connections and differences between immanent frameworks to provide some eco-intellectual commons for thinking within the planetary community, with a particular emphasis on making connections between more recent theories and older ideas of immanence found in many of the world’s religious traditions. The authors in this volume met and worked together over five years, so the resulting volume reveals sustained and multifaceted perspectives on “thinking and acting with the planet.”
A collection of poetry, prose, and writings from the soul behind the alias "The Ruined Man" Dear Viewers,I thought about writing something fancy and tempting here, to "sell" the book. But that isn't the type of author I want to be. Instead I want to take a moment to thank you for being here. This is my first poetry book and features some of my work that I have released over the past year. I hope for this to be the first book of many and that if you honour me by purchasing this book you will enjoy the read and the journey that delves into the darkness of heartbreak that many writers dare not wander. If you do enjoy the book, please feel free to follow me on facebook: TheRuinedManOriginal and be sure to come back here to review my work as I really appreciate that. Thank you again, for being here, for trying my book, and for sharing the journey of descending poetry with me. It's a refined taste not to everyone's standards but I know that there are many of you out there who feel the things that can be found inside this book and it is my hope that these words and this journey will help you through the foggy path that awaits you. Journey if you dare, come with me and see what the future holds
The bond between a father and daughter is strong enough to weather the most violent storms, but it can also bring savage heartache. From the moment Melissa enters this world in a flurry of chaos and happiness, she holds and manipulates her father's love. There is no way to predict the roller-coaster ride they face. Almost overnight, Melissa's father loses his sweet, little girl. Left in her place is an erratic, unstable, deeply unhappy teenager who is hell-bent on obliterating boundaries and pushing her father, as well as her mother and sisters, to the breaking point. Caught in the middle of her parents' divorce, she doesn't hide her disdain for the rules. But she goes to great lengths to keep her father ignorant of just how far into trouble she falls or how she's trapped by three "friends" from whom there is no escape. Overwhelmed by the stress his crumbling marriage causes, Melissa's father struggles to keep his own life together while trying to save his daughter from the point of no return. He finds himself, alone, bound by his own four walls, drowning in loneliness and tears. Melissa's father, it seems, will have to lose it all to bring her back from the brink.
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