Author Kathy Parker is a lover of beautiful words and wide-open spacesa writer, poet, survivor, warrior, and word alchemist. In this new work, she presents a journey of breaking to mending, surviving to loving, and the courage to rise from our darkest places, undefeated. The Unravelled Heart, her first published collection of poems and prose, offers a profoundly honest reflection on trauma, abuse, love, loss, and healing. These verses confront our rawest humanity through powerful words and unveiled emotion. They move from anguish to a place of quiet resilience and tender hope. Delicate yet empowering, these poems seek to piece together the heart torn by sorrow. This Is How You Mend Your Broken And today you picked yourself up from the floor And made it through another day. Never let anyone tell you what your brave should look like. This is how you heal: One hard-fought day at a time. This is how you mend your broken.
The second edition of The Public Administrator’s Companion: A Practical Guide examines the most important elements of public administration. The authors provide readers with a keen understanding of how government works, useful for both students and practitioners of public administration. The book discusses governmental structure, human resources, and public funding. It delineates administrators’ actions in strategic planning, consensus building, budget development, performance measurement, and public policy assessment and implementation. This edition includes new chapters on nonprofit organizations and leadership for administrators, as well as an appendix about preparing and making presentations. The previous edition’s appendix on getting a job in local government has been revised to include interviewing and hiring from the perspectives of both the agency and applicant. Real-world examples and cases from the local, state, and federal level reinforce key topics. Each chapter ends with a “Practicing Public Administration” section that provides helpful exercises for building the skills described in the chapter and a “Bibliography,” which provides useful source materials that can broaden the reader’s comprehension of the chapter.
Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s fellowship drew from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Barbra Streisand, Janis Ian, Anthony Grooms, Mary Hood, Nikky Finney, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; his longtime friends; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on who he was. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays herewith wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched along the way.
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. It specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions, creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality is firmly grounded in the language and priorities of religious studies, and helps stimulate explorations of whether and how religious communities are tapping their own wisdom and strengths in nurturing today's young people in a complex and changing world. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines, and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.
When it comes to mentoring, peer coaching is an undervalued workhorse. It's effective, inexpensive, widely applicable, and relatively easy to implement. Many coaches consider it to be the next wave in professional development. Peer Coaching at Work draws on research and practice to deliver a hands-on guide to this powerful relational learning technique. The authors—all leaders in the field—present a rigorously tested three-part model for facilitating peer coaching relationships in one-on-one settings and in larger groups. With lively case studies, they define peer coaching as a focused relationship between equals who supportively learn from, actively listen to, and judiciously question each other, which leads to breakthroughs that may otherwise lie dormant in one's career. A fundamental guide for anyone with an interest in mentoring and transformational learning, this book is a must-have for the talent management bookshelf.
This book takes a unique look into the journey of a world-class archer, who, at the age of 14, qualified for the 1988 Olympic Games. Nobody would have expected her to come away with a medal, but what "they" didn't know was this teenager's tenacity to succeed. In this intriguing book, Denise Parker recounts all aspects of her archery career. From the countless hours of practice, to the joy of winning, to the delicate balance of external pressure -- this book tells it all. It is the perfect read for any child or teenager who strives to achieve greatness and also provides parents and mentors insights to help any child or young adult to achieve his/her dreams.
Build it and they will not come. You need a community that loves you hard. We know what it is like to spend an obscene amount of effort, time, and money (out of your own pocket) to birth your passion baby into the world only to have it completely flop...crickets and all. Why? We hadnÕt yet discovered the power of community. Imagine having an army of raving fans hanging on your every word, completely loving everything you do, and buying everything you had to offer. They love you so much, in fact, they canÕt help but tell everyone about you and what you have to offer. WouldnÕt that be amazing? Having an ultra-engaged community is like having your own little army of raving fans at the ready. That means direct access to your customer base. But how do you cultivate an ultra-engaged community? ItÕs simple. Hosting a community is a lot like hosting a party.
Thanks for the Memories, An Anthology of Prose and Poetry is a compilation of poetry, prose, short stories and articles written by the women of the Creative Writing and Literature Department of the Woman's Club of Fort Worth. The women of the Creative Writing and Literature Department created the anthology as a way to demonstrate the talents of the ladies within the group and to memorialize those who have passed on but who left us a melodic legacy of words. Through the words of this anthology you will be entertained and enlightened.
For ages 3-9... My Mom always asks, "Did you wash your hands?" I always tell her, "Of course " She tells me if I don't wash I'll turn into Germ Boy. A boy made out of germs? Now isn't that the craziest thing you've ever heard?
This is my story about a night that would change my life. It all started on May 27th, 1961.My mama (Trish) received a call from her sister-in-law, Jan that day. Jan wanted to know if she could go with Leah to the dog races in Jacksonville. She was going to go but Lisa, the baby got sick and she can't go. Trish told Jan that she would have to talk to Chad, her husband first. Chad got off work at 3pm.When he got home Trish asked him about going with Leah to the dog races. Chad told her it would be alright and that he would take care of the children. Trish is a loving, dedicated mother. Chad figured that she could use a little time to unwind and relax. So, she called Jan to let her know that she would go with Leah the next night which was, May the 28th.She was a little excited and nervous because she had not been away from the children in a long time. She knew that Chad would take real good care of them. Trish set the table and went to get ready. Kathy asked her mama if she could go, but her mama told her that she would have to be daddy's little helper just for tonight. Chad put June in the high chair, Bill at the table and he held Louise, while Trish finished getting ready. Leah pulled up about five, to pick Trish up. Kathy started crying and begging her mama to please let her go. Chad took Kathy by the hand and told her that he needed her to stay to help him with her baby sister. Kathy still wanted to go. She wanted to be with her mama. She watched as they pulled out of the drive way. Trish promised Kathy that she would see her in the morning. Little did any of them know that that would be the last time any of them would see her again...
For ages 3 to 9 All I want is a freckle, and all I find is everything else! I just want one. Just one! There is bound to be a freckle on me somewhere. Now if I can only find it!
Forever His: She’s home and hearth. He’s a superstar baseball player. Emma Delaney has always loved Sam Parker. Sam reminds her of warm sunshine, laughter and passion. In his arms, she dreams of white picket fences and happily-ever-afters, until the day he leaves her for baseball. A knee-ending injury puts Sam permanently on the bench. With his baseball career cut short, he returns home to face his guilt, and the woman he abandoned for the game. The woman he can never have—Emma. Get your copy today because when friends become lovers sparks fly!
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