Holler, Heaven and Home is an inspirational book with an Appalachian flavor. Its homespun stories and songs from the hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky will take you on a journey that shows the depths of faith during the good times and the bad. It chronicles the authors journey as her faith was on a firm foundation then wavered through the difficult time of her husbands cancer diagnosis and then, once again, restored. The book also reveals how Gods plan and purpose for our lives are often shown through the building blocks of adversity.
There are several definitions of a family, including the descendants of a common ancestor or individuals living in the same household. This is our story about a family, rooted in Mississippi. We will write about Mississippi and the descendants of Larthey Jenkins and Mary Johnson-Jenkins, born over 140 years ago, and about our father, Cecil Jenkins Sr. that was born over 106 years ago. Larthey and Mary's first descendant was born in 1903 and the last known descendant was born in 2021, 118 years apart. We believe that part of a strong family is knowing family history. In this publication, we will explore a few of what we believe to be factual things about the State of Mississippi; the celebrated, the good, the sad, and the horrifying but not innuendos. We intend to list some notable Mississippians and some historical markers. We will write about our family, the Jenkins, the descendants of our grandfather, Larthey Jenkins, Sr. (1878? - 1950), and our grandmother, Mary Johnson-Jenkins (1880? - 1977) on our father's side of the family. They were the first generation of our family members that were born after slavery was legally abolished in the United States of America. We will also identify the second and third generations of Larthey and Mary, identify Cecil Jenkins Sr.'s family, and provide a short story of the life of several Cecil Sr. family members from the fourth generation. Additionally, we will provide some information on our mother and her parents. Our mother died when Lucy was a baby and Cecil Jr. was three years old. Some of the good things about Mississippi include several Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), television personality Oprah Winfrey and National Football League (NFL) Hall of Fame Quarterback Brett Favre were born there. In 1825, Ben Jenkins was born into slavery in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He married Mary from Georgia and to this union two children, Stewder and James were born. James Jenkins married Sopha Ford and our grandfather, Larthey Jenkins was born in about 1878 to that union. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution legally abolished slavery in the United States of America. Although slavery was legally abolished, some Black people were still caught up in a predicament.
When her Uncle Charlie dies, Mary discovers that she has inherited a house in Georgia. She travels to Sunset Cove, and unravela why her uncle never mentioned the house and why the townspeople don't want her to stay.
By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage campaigning, what it meant to them, how they benefited, and how it shaped their lives.
The authors separate the five discrete functions of appraisal: coaching, feedback, compensation, employee development, and legal documentation and clarify the objectives of each. They examine the atrocious track record of appraisals.
This book is for those interested in Chinese art; Chinese painting; learning Chinese painting techniques-bamboo, snowy bamboo, birds, peonies, plum blossoms, orchids, pine, water, rocks; the philosophy of Chinese painting; living in Taiwan. It is an illustrated memoir of my experiences as a woman living in Taiwan, a decade of my life. I became a painter whose media are the Chinese brush and ink, and who became educated in the tradition of Chinese painting, culture, philosophy, and art. These forces have become my heart. I lived in Taiwan for about ten years. In art, what enchanted me was the space in Chinese painting. There would be a plum branch or bamboo branch floating free in the sky. I started studying soon after we arrived in Taiwan, hoping to learn ideas of painting resulting in a representation so pure and free. In the West we fill up our canvases with everything, but sometimes the detail in the Chinese painting is the dramatization of the freedom of space. This is Taoist philosophy because the creative energy of the universe is in the space. This is my idea of the meaning of the Tao. The concepts of Chinese painting most moving to me originate in Taoist philosophy. The ideas and methods of the artist have as their purpose the expression of the harmony of Tao. I stepped from the maddened American world into the strength of painting in Chinese culture at the age of twenty-six. The bamboo reflects all the feeling, spirit, vision, emotion of the painter-what the painter paints is his own heart. Painting the bamboo is like stepping out into the blue sky where sky and man become one.
Sadie Ferguson begins a journey where she will endure incredible hardship and unexpected triumph. As she starts to rebuild a life of her own, she finds she is misunderstood by many. She can't predict the trials in store for her, but she knows her faith in God will get her through. Through sheer faith and the will to survive, Sadie will overcome all manner of struggle, from finding work to finding love, to ultimately finding the true family she needs. Join author, Mary Ann Jenkins, for a touching tale of loss, love, and the perseverance of one woman and her God in The Witch's Journal.
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