Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap." Theodore Sturgeon - 1958 Byrne Johnson has extracted this material from journals and letters written by his father, Don Johnson, a pioneer to Rainy Lake on the Minnesota - Ontario border. This volume covers the years from 1936 through 1957 as he moved from the position of caretaker at a private boys' camp to caretaker and boatman for a wealthy industrialist's summer estate. In 1945 he, along with his wife and children, created a small island resort. The following year he turned over the operation of the resort to his wife, Layna, and their children and became the captain of a two story houseboat moored to shore on the Canadian side of the lake where the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co. entertained customers, executives and their guests. His winter work involved working with pulpwood truckers and scalers at the company storage yard. It also chronicles his experiences as U.S. Coast Guard lamplighter maintaining nearly 50 miles of aids to navigation on the American side of Rainy Lake. This is a rare look at a place of great beauty off of the beaten path, much of which has since become a part of Voyageurs National Park. It is presented in the words of an extremely literate and witty man who shares his joys as well as his disappointments and bouts with melancholy. A keen observer of nature and human nature, his words are scrupulously honest. For most of these years he wrote about 100 words a day in page-a-day journals where he commented on his day's activities, his family life and often with pithy comments on the book he was reading or the movie he had just seen.
More Than Heavy Rain brings together poems of intense observation culled from a life lived mostly outside. Set mostly around the poet’s home along the Watauga River in northeast Tennessee, the poems also reach out to such distant locations as Montana, Alaska, and post-war Germany. Some of them reconstruct the poet’s childhood in rural West Virginia. Some examine his family history, the events and relatives who helped determine the way he views the world. LIKE TURNING ON A SWITCH In a day and a night the leaves of all four Gingko trees in the courtyard fell, Fanned out in one direction by a south wind As if they had been deliberately laid. Even in half-light they glowed As if a door had been opened at mid-court Spilling brightness onto the grass. But there was no door, no room into which One might lead, no light to shine out, Just yellow leaves, four shadow-anchored Boats, straining to pull away with the tide.
America is facing its greatest challenges since its inception and the reason for this is that we no longer acknowledge our Creator or His righteous laws. In our arrogance, He has given us over to foolishness and our worst passions. To turn us back to Him, He has allowed us to experience political divisiveness, increasing poverty, the growing threat of natural disasters, while also allowing our enemies to gain strength while we become weaker. As a Native American whose ancestors lived on the edge of America for thousands of years, Rev. Dr. Johnson brings a unique, insightful message for this time. For anyone interested in how this nation became great and why it is now being threatened, this is a must read!
This book is an illustration taken from my own experience about how God is able to take someone (me) who comes from a broken family and is able through time and circumstance to restore me to wholeness and purpose. I am Native American who comes from the Makah Tribe located on the far northwest corner of the state of Washington. Growing up in that community at a time when the tribe was going through too rapid culture change acquainted me with the affects rapid change and how it can result in increased pressure to question core values that once served as a guide for life in relationship to family, tribe, creation and God. My family was made up of good people but due to traumas that affected them early in life and the stresses caused by government efforts to civilize Indians, the dreams of my mother and father were soon replaced by disappointment and pain. Alcoholism entered in, a painful divorce resulted and I became caught in the aftermath of t heir failed relationship, along with my siblings. Fortunately, the God who can fix anyone was able to gather the broken and missing pieces of my life and began a life long effort to fix me. It took a while though and an illustration resulting from an encounter with three unlikely messengers from the Northern Cheyenne in Lame Deer Montana began my discovery. I began to understand how God is able by His grace to repair anyone, no matter their circumstances. He can fix anyone.
As a churchgoing Christian, I was always a bit skeptical if God really performs miracles but found out in a dramatic way that he indeed does, and when he does, a person's life will forever be changed. This is my story of how God touched me and consequently changed me and blessed me beyond human understanding. This is my story of God's interaction with me. It is a story of losing a wife to cancer, of finding a new one, and of my family suddenly expanding from three children to seven. It is a story of being called into the United Methodist's ministry at age thirty-eight with my salary going from $30,000 to $2,000. It also shows my struggle with the rumored immorality at the "God Box" in New York City. There is a saying in Methodism, "Don't make waves," but I did! That conflict alone is worth reading this book.
This Civil War history focuses on Prince William County, Virginia, where two of the war's greatest engagements were fought, thirteen months apart. The First and Second Battles of Manassas are described in profound detail but so are the lives of resident families as a cloud of despair hangs over their lands. The book captures the experiences of leaders and privates, the good and the bad, while revealing horrific accounts of civilian victims, largely undisclosed until the writing of this book.
Everyone starts out life relying on others. Usually, these are family members, and its not uncommon for people to depend on them well into their twenties. But ultimately people must search for something more meaningful. The fortunate ones move toward caring for others, an impulse that is part of the DNA that God planted in humanity. This group includes people such as Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Schweitzer, and many others, some of whom are featured in this book. Author Don Johnson admires these people because they made a conscious choice to care for others. It is the same decision he made years ago when he was struggling to find a direction in life. After a lot of prayer and soul-searching, he decided to become a minister. In Gods Implanted DNA, Johnson recalls what it was like growing up in a Baptist family and then starting a family of his own; he also shares his thoughts on Gods teachings. Join him as he explores how much good can result when people give themselves up for the sake of others to find true happiness.
Finding his idealism challenged by the reactionary forces that have proliferated in the post-9/11 world, Don Hanlon Johnson felt a need to recover more sober visions of hope amid the many reasons for despair and cynicism. "Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams" is a bracing backward turn toward the diverse and often conflicting visions passed down to Johnson by his immigrant ancestors who settled in the Sacramento Valley in the nineteenth century. Through stories about neighborhood, local churches, hunting and fishing, driving, cooking, heavy construction, and schools, he examines what in our forebears' ideals continue to nurture us and what aspects of those ideals carry germs of personal and social harm. Johnson's descriptions offer a lens for recovering the deep soul of America-one that deserves attention as a model for progressives and anyone concerned the directions our country has taken in response to 9/11.
Do you have a Vision for yourself and your enterprise that captures others' imaginations and inspires loyalty? Lion Taming gives you live examples of leaders who have done just that, and practical means for capitalizing on your personal leadership style. It can spark radical acceptance of your leadership potential. It stimulates awareness of your never-to-be-duplicated personal vision and a specific focus on concrete actions and attitudes; for today, next week or a year from now. Your adventure with Lion Taming gives you means for providing yourself and your enterprise with A sense of "Who we are," and "Who we are becoming" (Vision). Clarity about "What we are on the planet to do" (Mission). Important, concrete, measurable, Mission-created outcomes. Plans and tactics requiring action and accountability long-term and daily. An arsenal of trust producing approaches, to inspire and maintain loyalty in all your essential business relationships. Through the eyes and experiences of learn-as-you-go corporate leaders, Lion Taming lays out a plan for acquiring a focused, action-producing vision of yourself and your enterprise. These real life leader-successes are very different from each other. Their lives are a call for leaders, and those who aspire to lead, to be true to their own most natural leadership style, turn it into a plan, and do it
A long-awaited collection of 115 short essays on nature and wildlife from the career of legendary Wisconsin outdoor writer Don L. Johnson. In 2000, Johnson was named to the "Century Honor Roll" by Wisconsin Outdoor Journal, as one of the 20 individuals who had the greatest influence on conservation, hunting, and fishing in Wisconsin during the 20th century.
At last -- The Original Johnson, Trevor Von Eeden's personal and heartfelt graphic novel biography of Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion of the world, international celebrity, and the most controversial American of his time. This is the artistic achievement of Trevor's career (Batman, Black Canary, Black Lightning, Green Arrow), more than four years in the making and worth every moment.
In these poems Don Johnson creates a history of the Watauga Valley, from the mythical settlement by the descendants of Duke Allen, through the many floods that inundated the valley down through the decades and justified the building of the Watauga Dam following World War II. The central event in the collection is the drawdown of Watauga Lake which occurred in 1983 and allowed the former residents of the village of Butler, Tennessee, to return to their homeplace after it had been under water for over thirty years. Thus Watauga Drawdown becomes a study of the attempts by the many characters which define this book, to recover or create their respective pasts.
Ten Lives is about ten different kitties who blessed us with their presence. Each cat has a short story devoted to it; Kassidy, Hannah, Harley, St. Hubert, Dollie, CC, Bambino, Buster Brown, Maxi and Mini. Be prepared to laugh and maybe cry a little. Ten Lives contains oodles of pictures and will make a super gift to yourself or to your pet-loving friends and relatives.
Adventure - Suspense: Against the backdrop of the Mexican crime organization, La Familia, more vicious and relentless than the Sicilian Mafia, we see the story of a likable man swept up in a heady world of tremendous wealth and power he is not equipped to handle. Seduced by a scheming beauty, he is finally redeemed only at great personal sacrifice.
Body, Spirit and Democracy addresses how can we, of different ethical values, spiritual commitments, and ethnic backgrounds, work together to create a more humane world. The unique perspective on this common concern is from the author's lifetime of work within the family of body-therapies, exercise and movement disciplines that emerged in Northern Europe and the United States during the middle of the 19th Century. In the spirit of 12-step meetings and Native American circles, the author tells a number of stories of his and others' journeys, which illustrate how the most seemingly abstract spiritual notions about life are distilled from dense bodily experience. By connecting the flesh of stories with the abstractions of spiritual and philosophical viewpoints, the author situates himself among the many activists, intellectuals, artists, and religious workers who are working towards accustoming people to embracing spiritual diversity as more healing than the monistic alternatives.
The author Evangelist Ann M. Sewell contends in her book, How Were You Baptized, that among the sacraments, baptism is exceedingly important - for it is a visible sign of invisible grace instituted for our justification. The author's traces the history of baptism through Scripture references and concluded that evidence shows the preeminence of baptism by immersion. According to the authors, in the year A.D. 28, about the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius, John the Baptist introduced the practice of total immersion in water as the proper procedure for baptism. It was a sign to prepare the people for the great movement associated with the coming of the Messiah. How Were You Baptized? is a thoroughly researched and documented investigation of an important sacrament that places in its proper Scriptural perspective. The work, How Were You Baptized? is being forwarded by Elder Don Johnson and Evangelist Charlene P. Johnson. It's our prayer that the reader becomes instructed and inspired as there soul becomes spiritually awakened. It is also our hope that the reader will accept the water immersion baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as an essential part of New Testament salivation.
Both of our eyes got real wide when we heard the crashing sounds coming from inside the garage. Then we heard a huge crash and felt a small earthquake along with it and knew that something really bad had happened. We ran around to the side of the garage just in time to see a moose exiting the area with half of Trevoras power tools dangling from his horns. Trevor started screaming as his woodworking future ran into the nearby woods. The Alaska Muskeg Machine is a lighthearted look at hunten and fishen in Alaska. Longtime Alaska resident Don K. Johnson delivers to you humorous anecdotes, stories and embellishments of life in the great Alaska outdoors in a book that will appeal to visitor or mountain man alike.
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