Life does not prepare you for losing your mind and there is no guarantee of finding it once you have lost it. The search for my mind and an understanding of why my life had taken such a drastic turn, led me on an investigative journey through my past. Plagued by thoughts of never being whole again, I felt like Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall. Although I did not have access to the 'king's horses' and the 'king's men', somehow I was 'put back together again.' Perhaps even more than medicine and therapy, love, caring, forgiveness, and nonjudgmental encouragement have been great healers and motivators in my life. This love has also enabled me to love, care, forgive, and encourage others. When I was in a place that I, and others, thought to be a place of no return, I found healing from these unlikely healers. Having been blessed to return from that place, I discovered that sometimes, tragedy is a precursor to triumph and brokenness a prerequisite for wholeness. In my darkest hour, the love and support that I received helped me to find my way. One day while seriously contemplating suicide, sitting with my head in my hands crying, I was startled by a tap on my shoulder from my three year-old son. He patted my shoulder and said, "It's going to be alright daddy, it's going to be alright." Even now, the thought of those words give me a chill, just thinking of how the words of a three-year-old could affect the course of my life. In that moment, a door opened in my mind that allowed me to begin the process of regaining control over my mind and my life. I knew that I did not want to leave him here without a father.
Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach details the process for building organizational resiliency and managing Emergency and Business Continuity programs. With over 30 years of experience developing plans that have been tested by fire, floods, and earthquakes, Tucker shows readers how to avoid common traps and ensure a successful program, utilizing, detailed Business Impact Analysis (BIA) questions, continuity strategies and planning considerations for specific business functions. One of the few publications to describe the entire process of business continuity planning from emergency plan to recovery, Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery addresses the impact of the new ASIS, NFPA, and ISO standards. Introducing the important elements of business functions and showing how their operations are maintained throughout a crisis situation, it thoroughly describes the process of developing a mitigation, prevention, response, and continuity Management System according to the standards. Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery fully integrates Information Technology with other aspects of recovery and explores risk identification and assessment, project management, system analysis, and the functional reliance of most businesses and organizations in a business continuity and emergency management context. Offers a holistic approach focusing on the development and management of Emergency and Business Continuity Management Systems according to the new standards Helps ensure success by describing pitfalls to avoid and preventive measures to take Addresses program development under the standards recently developed by ISO, ASIS and NFPA Provides both foundational principles and specific practices derived from the author’s long experience in this field Explains the requirements of the Business Continuity Standards
From within My Ebony Eyes are events of stories that has been written in poetry, as it appears in the eyes of the author Darryl Hester. It depicts loneliness, death and discrimination. He also shares some humor to uplift the soul. Darryl's previous work which is entitled "From The Outside Looking In" encouraged Darryl to continue to spread the spoken word from within his eyes and experiences. Darryl's poetry will definitely give all the opportunity to glance at the world and evaluate reality as it truly is. In Darryl's first book he boldly shared with you the first chapter of his novel "Gangsta". It was chilling, thrilling and it is very much anticipated for release. As you read Darryl's poetry you will understand the trials and tribulations that exist in the communities and as to the world. Great Book, Shocking, truthful and revealing, Maya Angelou would be proud "Shining Star Entertainment" "I was overwhelmed with Darryl's expressions; I wept and felt the passion in his writing, so strong so powerful so truthful". "Break Through Records
This biography of American poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman focuses on his development as both a "Romantic," whose work was influenced by Keats, Emerson, and Tennyson, and as an "anti-Romantic," in the mold of Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson. Using previously unexamined letters, family records, and notes by Tuckerman, Eugene England traces the poet's unique combination of Anglican rationalism, legal training, and skill in natural observation (under the tutelage of his brother Edward, a noted botanist), all of which caused him to depart from the orthodox Emersonian Romanticism in unusual and instructive ways. England examines Tuckerman's challenging resolution to basic aesthetic and epistemological dilemmas posed by Romanticism and demonstrates that his poems are a first-rate artistic achievement of continuing value. Beyond Romanticism includes a general bibliography as well as a complete bibliography of Tuckerman's writings and works about him and his poetry.
On a bright and sunny summer morning, Tucker Turtle and Ripley Rabbit decide to meet the many animals, birds, and insects that live on Presque Isle State Park located near Erie, Pennsylvania. Their journey is fun, exciting, and educational. Children are sure to be delighted in joining them on their travels throughout the park. The book is about Tucker, a Painted Turtle, and Ripley a Cottontail Rabbit that live on Presque Isle State Park, but it also takes the reader and child on a tour of the 3,200-acre peninsula that stretches seven miles along the shoreline of Lake Erie. The park welcomes over 4 million visitors each year and is the leading State Park in Pennsylvania. In the book, the child will visit twenty-five places on the park while meeting the various animals that live there. This heartwarming children's animal book contains many lighthearted illustrations, an informative storyline, and is ideal for reading to children from 2 to 7 years of age. Within the illustrations are many hidden features such as worms racing with an ant flagman declaring a winner, a guitar-playing mouse and many more. The book has over 50 animals, birds, and insects that call Presque Isle their home. This is a book that adults will enjoy reading over and over to children.
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