Each person's life is an ongoing story. In the small and large events of everyday living are embedded powerful lessons that may be used to anchor emotional health. In this collection of stories, the reader hears the voice of Earth Woman, who uses the majestic stability of Mother Earth and the practical wisdom available from the planet’s rhythmic cycles as a way to manage the ongoing turmoil of reality. With a poetic cadence, Earth Woman invites the reader to search for what may be learned from the twists and turns of existence.
The Lonely Wind is a novel with a message. Author Suzanne Schmidt, a mental health professional, explores family conflict created by a mother's attempts to control outcomes in her daughter's life—leading to events that have life-changing consequences for both. The story offers a nostalgic look at life in the early 1960s. Flamboyant widow Sudie Brennan is embroiled in a power struggle with her usually docile teenaged daughter Zoe. The source of trouble is one of the town’s star athletes, whose antics on the basketball court excite the small West Texas town where they live. For Sudie, this powerfully sensuous young man threatens the stability and safety of her small family. In an attempt to control the uncontrollable, she unleashes a whirlwind of chaos that is life-changing for both mother and daughter.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt's 'Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance' tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science. Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European reading market of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Single sheets and book illustrations featured movable flaps and dials, and functioned as kits to build three-dimensional scientific instruments. These hybrid constructions - part text, part image, and part sculpture - engaged readers; so did the polemical, satirical, and, occasionally, erotic content. By manipulating dials and flaps, or building and using the instruments, viewers learned to think through images as well as words, interacting visually with desires, social critique, and knowledge itself.
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