Ed Hearn has seen the thrill of victory and faced the agony of life's big league challenges. After a ten-year struggle in the minor leagues, he coped with a shoulder injury that prematurely ended his career. Then, less than one year later, Ed rebounded from three potentially life-threatening health conditions. His story shows how God can use even the worst circumstances to accomplish His purposes.
Travels While On My Journey...Major Trips From My Life, this fourth book in a five-part series, showcases ten entertaining and thoughtful short stories based on major trips I've made around the world. I kept detailed journals about my experiences and later converted them into this book. You will find two stories about separate hunting trips to Africa, where my brother and younger son participated. They had a good time hunting, while I took photos of the wildlife and environment, in addition to keeping a daily journal. There are three different World Masters track and field championships told about, which took place in South Korea, Australia, and Brazil. I was a participant in all three with very successful outcomes you will find interesting. I'm most proud of my performances while in South Korea during the spring of 2017. Be sure to read that one. There's a detailed account of a three-week-long, dangerous, dinosaur fossil-hunting expedition made with a small group of scientists to the remote Andes Mountains of Argentina. During that trip, our team discovered the fossils of ten different dinosaur species from the Triassic Period, around a quarter of a billion years ago, that had never been found before on the earth. I tell about a fun, salmon fishing trip made with my youngest son, Matt, to British Columbia, Canada. We fished together in cold, rough waters while staying on a floating lodge in a remote area. It was a great trip for both of us. There is a visit told about that was made with my brother to China, where we explored the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City, both near Beijing. We visited the world-famous, buried terracotta soldiers of Xian that I felt was the highlight of the whole trip. We also traveled west of the large city of Hong Kong to experience the Canton Business Fair. An exciting trip is detailed that was made to the Central-American country of Belize. After reading it, you may decide to travel there yourself. The jungles, wildlife, Mayan temples, and friendly English-speaking people were all a pleasure to encounter. There is a story about one of my many trips made to the little island of Bonaire, located about twenty miles off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. It's one of my favorite places in the world to visit because of its crystal-clear, calm waters for snorkeling and its laid-back way of life.
Imagine your life completely changed in the blink of an eye. What would it be like to survive a catastrophic accident miraculously unharmed but totally bewildered and with a mysterious sign to guide you forward?
Experiences Along My Journey...Stories From A Life Well-Lived, this second book in a five-part series, includes a variety of short stories from the middle part of my life. Many of these stories are why I originally started writing my books. I didn't want them to be lost to future generations of my family. Along the way, I discovered a lot of other people who know me also wanted to hear them because the stories are all true. In addition to regular tales, they include funny happenings and silly pranks pulled on me and others. While sitting at family gatherings over the years, I was many times asked to tell and retell some of the funniest ones that we'd already laughed about when they had been told earlier on different occasions. A lot of the time, my children were either too young or busy playing in another area and never heard them. I figured the best thing to do was to write them down on paper where they would eventually be published. In this collection, I tell about experiences just after graduating from high school, all through college, and on into my work life that spanned over thirty years. Some of the happenings while I was in college are the wildest and to me the funniest. I can't read them now without smiling and sometimes laughing. Many are a little embarrassing, but worth retelling because they really happened. It's all part of who I was and who I am today. My unique humor has been, in my opinion, one of my strong points. It's carried me through some hard times. In the end, this book explains why I feel mine has been a life well-lived. After you finish reading it, be sure read the other four in this series about my life. I think you will enjoy them all. The first book contains stories about growing up very poor in a loving family. The third book is about my adult life with much more seriousness and reflection. The fourth book contains ten trips I've made around the world to foreign countries while successfully participating in World Masters track and field championships, two safaris to Africa, dinosaur fossil hunting in the Andes Mountains of Argentina, salmon fishing in British Columbia, plus other interesting trips to China, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Belize and Bonaire. The fifth book is a continuation of the type of things I've told about in the first three books, with even more reflections taken from my unusual life.
My first book, "Memories Of My Journey...Stories From My Youth" includes a variety of short stories that span from the age of five through my early to mid-teenage years. As a family, we went through hard times with very little money, but there was always a loving connection that held us all together.
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My third book, "Reflections from My Journey...Stories Worth Repeating" includes a variety of short stories taken from my adult life. They reflect a mature person's thoughts and contain more seriousness and reflection than the first two books in the series.
Moments Within My Journey...Stories To Be Shared, this fifth book in a five-part series, was one I didn't originally intend to write. It sort of happened as an after-thought once I'd finished the first four. On the first day of March in 2019, I sat down at my computer and once again began to bring to life more of my past memories. Some days I'd produce only one short story and on other days I'd write up to two or three at a time. Working every day, for the following five weeks, fifty-seven new ones were completed. Up until this book, I've tried to keep all my stories positive and didn't include any of the really negative things that have been a part of my life. In a couple of cases in this fifth book, I decided to tell about a few life experiences I wish had never occurred. Life, being the way it is, subjects us all to certain things we just can't avoid. In looking back now, I've become aware I wouldn't be the same caring and reflective person without those events as part of my journey. I'm glad I've chosen to share just a few of them with you, so you'll know I'm a normal person. My sincere desire is that you read all of these additional stories in this fifth book, and they cause you to go back in time, so you will recall many of your own personal memories. Maybe, when you finish reading, you'll want to start writing a collection of stories taken from special moments in your life. In doing so, you'll create a family legacy that those who come after you will treasure for many years to come. My advice, in how to get started, is to write one story at a time with no real intention of creating a book. Do that again and again, whenever you're in the mood. Before long, you'll find you have created a stack of stories, and you will begin to get excited about how they can be used. One day, you'll say to yourself, "With a little more effort, I believe I can make this into a published book for my family and friends." It can happen. I encourage you to get started right away.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
From his earliest days in Winnipeg and throughout his flamboyant career as a journalist and PR manager, Ed Parker distinguished himself as a dynamic, creative innovator.
Transcending Greatness, “The Experience” Student Edition was written to support the Common Core State Standards and embed the College and Career Readiness Standards. This workbook will encourage reflection and encourage students to increase their chances at GREATNESS. This workbook is designed to be used with the book "Transcending Greatness" by Lawrence Perkins.
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