A Riff Of Love

Author : Greg Jarrell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633254
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Riff of Love written by Greg Jarrell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising teachers. Tragic losses. Unexpected gifts. Every neighborhood has stories, and ways of singing the stories of their place. Start digging in, and you find all sorts of music. In a neighborhood skilled in improvisation, like Enderly Park, you also discover new ways to sing those songs, and a choir of new kinfolk to sing them with. Since 2005, author and saxophonist Greg Jarrell has been learning the songs of Enderly Park, his Charlotte neighborhood. A Riff of Love explores the riffs and melodies that comprise the life of the neighborhood and of QC Family Tree, the hospitality house where he lives. Though neighbors there face significant economic and political barriers, they still thrive. Funny, heartbreaking, and challenging in equal measure, these stories and essays about life in Enderly Park will surely inspire new improvisations towards community and neighbor-love for everyone who reads them.

Author : Greg Jarrell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633262
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Riff of Love written by Greg Jarrell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising teachers. Tragic losses. Unexpected gifts. Every neighborhood has stories, and ways of singing the stories of their place. Start digging in, and you find all sorts of music. In a neighborhood skilled in improvisation, like Enderly Park, you also discover new ways to sing those songs, and a choir of new kinfolk to sing them with. Since 2005, author and saxophonist Greg Jarrell has been learning the songs of Enderly Park, his Charlotte neighborhood. A Riff of Love explores the riffs and melodies that comprise the life of the neighborhood and of QC Family Tree, the hospitality house where he lives. Though neighbors there face significant economic and political barriers, they still thrive. Funny, heartbreaking, and challenging in equal measure, these stories and essays about life in Enderly Park will surely inspire new improvisations towards community and neighbor-love for everyone who reads them.

Author : Roger Rosenblatt
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062349449
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Love written by Roger Rosenblatt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love. In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations—romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak, fury, confusion, melancholy, delirium, ecstasy; love of family, of friends; love of home, of country, of work, of writing, of solitude, of art; love of nature; love of life itself. Rosenblatt is on a quest to illuminate this elusive and essential emotion, to define this thing called love. Cleverly using lines from love songs to create a flowing ballad—as infectious and engaging as a jazz riff—he intersperses fictional vignettes that capture lovers in different situations, ages, and temperaments along with notes addressed to “you,” his wife of fifty years. “The story I have to tell is of you. Of others, too. Other people, other things. But mainly of you. It begins and ends with you. It always comes back to you.” Lively yet profound, poignant yet joyous, The Book of Love is a triumph of intellect and imagination: a personal discourse on love that is both novel and timeless.

Author : Michele Morano
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297450
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar Lessons written by Michele Morano and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and present worlds—to study the surprising moments of communication—as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory. Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman’s journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world. Grammar Lessons illustrates the difficulty and delight, humor and humility of living in a new language and of carrying that pivotal experience forward. Michele Morano’s beautifully constructed essays reveal the many grammars and many voices that we collect, and learn from, as we travel.

Author : Bell Hooks
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
ISBN 13 : 9781484799352
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homemade Love [Board Book] written by Bell Hooks and published by Jump At The Sun. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Mama calls her Girlpie-a sweet treat, homemade with love. And when Girlpie makes a mistake, the love of her mother and father lets her pick up the pieces and make everything right again. Shane W. Evan's resplendent artwork teems with "homemade love," one of the tender nicknames award-winning author bell hooks gives her young heroine. The simple, dynamic text paired with bold, energetic illustrations make this beautiful board book perfect for little hands.

Author : Robin Murray
Publisher : Ivy Press
ISBN 13 : 071125608X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listen to This If You Love Great Music written by Robin Murray and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen To This If You Love Great Music is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in music. Featuring 100 of the best albums from the last four decades, clashmusic.com​ editor Robin Murray shares his passion for exceptional music and offers insightful takes on what elevates these records above the competition. Robin steers clear of the usual classics – The Beatles and The Clash, for example – and instead goes deep into his record collection to pull out the albums he considers the greatest ever. For each, a solid case is made for why it represents a watershed moment in music history, outlining the story behind the record and critiquing what constitutes a classic. Uniquely curated to offer a fresh perspective on the last 40-plus years of music, find politically charged rock brushing shoulders with dub-infused electronica, progressive pop and dreamy shoegaze shaken awake by ear-drum rattling grime and house music. Whether it’s bass-heavy hip-hop from Nas that inspired a thousand MCs to pick up a mic or experimental indie dance from LCD Soundsystem that blurred genres and tempted musicians to trade in their guitars for synthesizers, this is an essential rundown of the albums that really matter. You need to play them loud.

Author : William G. Carter
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506497608
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thriving on a Riff written by William G. Carter and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter traces the meaning and spirituality of jazz, weaving together stories from the history of American music with his own experiences and those of generations of jazz musicians. As we encounter the transcendence of jazz, we meet a God who not only embraces syncopation but blesses the swing.

Author : Michele Morano
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255988
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like Love written by Michele Morano and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turns romance clichés inside out while poignantly and insightfully exploring the pleasures, possibilities, and lessons of unconsummated love.

Author : Mary Amato
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ™
ISBN 13 : 151240134X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitar Notes written by Mary Amato and published by Carolrhoda Lab ™. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On odd days, Tripp uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters. On even days, Lyla Marks uses the same practice room. To Tripp, she's trying to become even more perfect—she's already a straight-A student and an award-winning cellist. But when Lyla begins leaving notes for him in between the strings of the guitar, his life intersects with hers in a way he never expected. What starts as a series of snippy notes quickly blossoms into the sharing of interests and secrets and dreams, and the forging of a very unlikely friendship. Challenging each other to write songs, they begin to connect, even though circumstances threaten to tear them apart. From beloved author Mary Amato comes a YA novel of wit and wisdom, both heartfelt and heart­breaking, about the power of music and the unexpected chords that draw us together.

Author : Gary Chartier
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506481051
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving Creation written by Gary Chartier and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it true that all we need is love? Does love capture the essence of Christian ethics? Does a love-centered ethic need to be impartial in a way that leaves no room at ground-level for relationships and projects? What is the place of well-being in an ethic of love? Loving Creation: The Task of Moral Life seeks to answer these questions by showing how a love-ethic and an ethic of creation are not at odds but rather reinforce each other. Gary Chartier articulates a love-centered creation ethic--or a creation-centered love-ethic--and applies it to such issues as sex, economic life, love for enemies, and political order. In the book, Chartier offers a powerful alternative both to natural-law theories that seem to lose sight of the welfare of actual people and to the accounts of Christian love that embrace an alienating impartiality. He develops an understanding of Christian love as focused on creation that can contribute effectively to enriching both social practices and personal lives. Loving Creation is unabashedly theological. But the theological considerations it adduces are ones that will allow Christians to engage in the public sphere with adherents of other religious traditions and of none. It is a contribution not only to theological understanding but also to personal moral reflection, to church practice, and to Christian participation in public life.