For millennia we have looked to the sun to provide us with light, food and warmth. Yet, in our attempts to increase the productivity of each hour, we have skewed our days and stretched them through the use of candles, electricity and LED bulbs, our faces glowing in the unnatural light of screens and electronic devices. Within the pages of this book lies the chance to reconnect with our primal life force through folklore, exploration of ancient cultures, myths, legends and tales of our past. By understanding the power of our ancient star through the wisdom of those who walked this land before us, we can hope to unplug ourselves from the synthetic glow that surrounds our lives and reconnect with the Stories of the Sun.
Through a mixture of original stories and traditional tales, Adventures in Nature offers an abundance of ways for families to connect with the earth. As our ancestors did before us, the book follows the seasons contained in the 'Wheel Of The Year', with each entry focusing on a story that brings us closer to the natural world, accompanied by simple craft projects, activities and mindful moments. In our busy, modern lives we have become increasingly disconnected from the world around us, and stories are an age-old way of re-establishing that link, nurturing a love for the environment and embedding awareness and respect for the planet within our culture. This book allows you to discover your very own adventures in nature through story.
Dawn Nelson Elwood was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the eldest daughter of Harry and Phyllis Sellers. She was raised with her younger siblings, Scott, Terry and Tammy and is a lifelong resident of Minnesota. She and her husband Jim have been married for 30 years and live in Woodbury, Minnesota. The Elwoods have five adult children, Leanne, Christopher, Sarah, Benjamin, and Tiffany, and are currently raising their granddaughter, Ashley. Dawn is an avid supporter of environmental issues. Much of her writing is nature and/or life related. Dawn has worked for 17 years in the field of education, creating manuals and training both adults and developmentally disabled teens in various computer software programs. She has also worked teaching pre-school age children.
Winner of the Academy of Western Artists 2010 Buck Ramsey Book Award! In her coming of age book A Cowgirl Remembers When... Dawn shares her true life adventures of growing up on a ranch in Washington State. Hunting cougars with her trusty rifle, searching out hiding cattle in the rough cattle country, training horses and exploring the mountains surrounding her family ranch. She survives to adulthood even after encounters with wildlife, mini-wars with her brother and his friends and her teenage years when her friends she team up for holiday pranks. She survives confrontations with bulls, hunters, untrainable horses, her brother and cancer. Take time to read about growing up a cowgirl . Enjoy, reach back and remember when
Hilary Taylor, a 25 year old Midwestern teacher, lost her mother to breast cancer at the age of 2 and was raised by her older sister Diana who died when Hilary was 15 years old. To add insult to injury, her work-aholic father she barely knew, had a heart attack one week before Hilary's college graduation leaving her no choice but to move home to get him back on his feet. There seemed to be no challenge Hilary couldn't overcome until she bought a paperback and discovered the author, her ex-brother-in-law Jack Collins admitted to murdering her sister. Hilary stepped up once again, swearing vengeance as only a woman wronged can possibly do. She's lost her sister, has no mother, never had a father- she has nothing left but an urge to get even. Thus, begins a journey of an avenging angel, whose healing process begins when she finds a long lost ring hidden in the music box that once belonged to her sister. Along the way she learns to believe in "signs," love at first sight and that timing is everything. At the end of the trail, is it too late for Hilary to have a change of heart, or will she underestimate the power of Jack Collins?"--Publisher's web site
Alternative Service Delivery: Readiness Check synthesizes academic and practitioner knowledge about alternative service delivery (ASD) systems. This handbook offers information and insights that local governments can use to provide public services more effectively and efficiently. It serves as a primer about alternative service delivery, intended to guide investigation of new approaches to service delivery. It derives from multiple conversations with local government practitioners in Illinois who were frustrated by a lack of guidance on how to think about alternative service delivery methods for public services, and in what circumstances different alternatives were more or less successful. This handbook is written for both appointed managers and elected officials who are looking for innovative ways to consider service delivery and want to answer the basic question, “Can we be doing this better?” Why does your local government want to consider providing public services in new, alternative ways? As the cases in this handbook demonstrate, jurisdictions that successfully develop and implement an alternative service delivery method are driven by a desire to improve service effectiveness. Local governments that move from tactical to strategic thinking about service delivery are the ones more likely to improve services using different forms of alternative service delivery. The kinds of issues and types of questions examined in this handbook range from how to best handle such demand-driven services as allocation of police and fire resources to how to share expensive equipment that your jurisdiction needs only some of the time. The stories, solutions, and evidence are intended to help local government officials understand the differences between delivery alternatives and the prerequisites for developing and implementing each option.
The town of Danville has changed little since Jesse Walker left the Running W Ranch, her childhood home. However, the people living around there have changed considerably. After leaving an abusive husband she returns home to find she has become a target. Someone is killing her animals, terrorizing the town and threatening her life. Is it the cult that has taken up residence in the area or someone else? While not looking for a new relationship she finds herself intrigued by a local ranch hand, Justin, who neither wants nor needs a woman in his life. Jesse, Justin, Logan the ranch caretaker, and her best friend Marnie, must get to the bottom of the plan to drive her away before more people are hurt or killed and the town of Danville is changed forever.
A practical manual to aid the management of women with heart disease who are pregnant or who are considering pregnancy, Heart Disease in Pregnancy also provides an introduction to the physiological changes of pregnancy and the relevant obstetric knowledge and processes needed for a cardiologist to successfully manage a pregnant woman.
When Laura Dawson's husband left her for a wealthier woman, she took full custody of their two children and swore off love for good. But one eventful evening, during a stock-buying trip to South Dakota, changes everything. The attraction between Laura and Kyle Wilson, the rancher with whom she's doing business is undeniable, but trouble back home will test their relationship.
This memoir takes us adventuring on sailing ships through "flying boats" to jet airplanes, exploring the author's Hawaii vignettes, "Letters from Dacca," travel stories, and stories of her sea captain father--his own nautical story embedded at book's end. We learn how life events led to rediscovery of the Hawaiian language, the author's blood legacy, and how she accomplished her own legacy of important work. We gallop, sail and swim near Lanikai with a young girl at an earlier, more gentle time on Oahu. We learn of work, romance, marriage and the beginning of life as a family. We watch with that young mother the bombing of Pearl Harbor, how she shields her baby from strafing while wondering if her engineer husband at dockside is alive. Halia, A Legacy of Language is an account of a pono (good, beneficial) life of trust in its many decades as they unfolded, bringing the author important work to be done in Hawaii that became entwined with her passion for learning and correctly translating the Hawaiian language, especially relating to land deeds and rights to the aina, the land, for people of Hawaiian heritage. We share the joy of an inquiring mind expanding and questioning with the opportunities that came for travel and residency abroad, and resultant contrast and comparison with home and different cultural ways in Hawaii. The individuality of "Aunty Halia's" life olelo (story) reflects the experiences of one daughter of Hawaii, but by its very individuality offers a universal connection with people, their sensibilities, and places around the globe. All of these parts merge in the telling of the serendipity of a journey as exciting and challenging as the journeys that brought her master mariner father to Hawaii at an earlier time.
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