This book assists parents, teachers, and counselors in training children so that home and school will be happy and efficient, organized but pleasant -- with adults satisfied with their children and children growing up to be respectful, responsible, and resourceful. It provides solutions and emphasizes practicality.
Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geometric images that accompany them. She offers her research on the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now"--
She had built a great life for herself, it's just that she can become untethered. Her mind works differently. One day she was making breakfast and the next thing she knew she was being whisked away in an ambulance for electric shock therapy. She is labeled a bi-polar. This story is a visual narrative of an artist's journey through a mental health stay. A story about the chain and the culture that bound her to an identity of limitations and narrow hallways. She had many mental health stays before. This was different. At a certain point she realized that being called crazy gave her a powerful voice. Despite being scrubbed down in dirty showers with black flies sharing space with her naked body, being strapped down, medicated, and only allowed to access to the pay phone like a prisoner. She realized this was not about her anymore. She realized she could exist within this narrow hallway and still shine. Her light actually would only get more bright. The current state of the mental health care system needs light, it needs evolution. It is reliant on a system that continues to perpetuate the ideology that does not represent the beautiful brains that enter it's spaces. We demand nourishment, healing and heart centered care. Her experience necessitates a deep look into changing in the way we treat the neurodivergent thinkers in this world. She is on the leading edge of how we think about Mental Health and a walking example of the potential and resilience available to any human being. We became twined together as the pay phone calls came to me thousands of miles away. I felt a vicarial connection to her story and also her ability to articulate her experience to me. We took this journey together. We stamped it. I knew at a soul level that this story needed to be told. I began to construct the walls of this story. I studied her life, I filled up pages of words, layers of collage and beautiful watercolors to embody her experience. I did that to celebrate the triumph of her human spirit. I wrote this story to honor others like Anna that continue to forge a path to a new paradigm. This is her story. This is our story.
Many couples are too quick to call it quits in their marriages, causing the divorce rate to be high in todayaEUR(tm)s society. In her book The Lifeguard and the Girl Who Could Barely Swim, Genevieve Fernandez shares the story of her relationship with her husband, Felix. Through their experiences with challenges such as an eight-year-age difference, long-distance dating, having their faith tested, separation during Desert Storm, coping with infertility, and much more, Genevieve hopes couples can find hope and inspiration to fight for their marriages, that they would reconsider divorcing over small or inconsequential issues. You will laugh with them and cry with them as Genevieve takes you through the story of an enduring love story that has lasted over thirty years. Her prayer is that engaged couples would have a plan as they enter marriage and make the Lord the foundation of their relationship so that they can withstand the trials that will inevitably come their way, that married couples contemplating divorce would reconsider and take a stand to fight for their marriages and strive to make their relationship not only last but flourish. She encourages couples to have a biblical foundation to ground them and to better deal with trials when they come. Genevieve shares some of the insight and lessons she and Felix have learned in all their years together to have a healthy, thriving, and sustaining marriage. It may not be a perfect marriage, but itaEUR(tm)s good, itaEUR(tm)s strong, and itaEUR(tm)s beautiful. Her prayer is that more couples find that same kind of victory in their marriages as well.
How to Make 100 Bead Embroidery Motifs is a visual showcase of 100 different motifs, organized in sections by design category. It's the perfect book for beginners and seasoned beaders!
A delightful and witty cat-alog of feline masterpieces that spoofs 4,000 years of art history. Instantly recognizable to casual museum-goers and anyone who has ever perused Janson's History of Art, the works are captioned with deadpan annotations by a real-life art historian. 32 color illustrations.
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