Circling Toward Home

Author : Bill Meissner
Publisher : Finishing Line Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646626847
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circling Toward Home written by Bill Meissner and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 100 artistic photographs accompanied by prose meditations about the game of baseball. a collection of 100 unique photographs of small-town or amateur baseball fields accompanied by short prose. The themes range from the joys and struggles of growing up and growing old, to romance relationships (a section entitled "Love and Baseball"), to meditations about the game and the way it becomes a metaphor for our lives. One section ("In Another League") focuses on baseball in the Caribbean, featuring the players and rustic fields in Mexico and St. Thomas. One prose piece is a tribute to the late great Hank Aaron, and the racial discrimination he had to overcome. The ballfields themselves have their say, too, and there are whimsical pieces written from the point of view of the backstop, a line drive, the scoreboard, a light pole, and even the clouds that hover over a game.

Author : Sharon Hope Fabriz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735072630
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circling Toward Home written by Sharon Hope Fabriz and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circling Toward Home originates in the 1960s Mississippi home of a F.B.I. family from Minnesota and tumbles to the present day as a woman breaks with expectations to locate herself. Part bildungsroman, part lesbian love story, part elegy to loss, this personal account reveals how the author's outsiderness became the path to her awakening. This story examines the incremental revelations that have fashioned beliefs and actions, from childhood in Mississippi to late-stage lesbian lifestyle to the death of my father to the aftermath of that loss and the conscious choices along the way.

Author : John Lane
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342807
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circling Home written by John Lane and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont. He, his wife, and two stepsons built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawson’s Fork Creek. Soon after settling in, Lane pinpointed his location on a topographical map. Centering an old, chipped saucer over his home, he traced a circle one mile in radius and set out to explore the area. What follows from that simple act is a chronicle of Lane’s deepening knowledge of the place where he’ll likely finish out his life. An accomplished hiker and paddler, Lane discovers, within a mile of his home, a variety of coexistent landscapes—ancient and modern, natural and manmade. There is, of course, the creek with its granite shoals, floodplain, and surrounding woods. The circle also encompasses an eight-thousand-year-old cache of Native American artifacts, graves of a dozen British soldiers killed in 1780, an eighteenth-century ironworks site, remnants of two cotton plantations, a hundred-year-old country club, a sewer plant, and a smattering of mid- to late twentieth-century subdivisions. Lane’s explorations intensify his bonds to family, friends, and colleagues as they sharpen his sense of place. By looking more deeply at what lies close to home, both the ordinary and the remarkable, Lane shows us how whole new worlds can open up.

Author : Mary Ann Hogan
Publisher : LifeTree Media
ISBN 13 : 1637560133
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circle Way written by Mary Ann Hogan and published by LifeTree Media. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visually rich, multigenerational lyric essay, Mary Ann Hogan reflects on a life of letters and her relationship to her late father, Bill Hogan, well-known literary editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, whom John Steinbeck once dubbed “an old and valued friend.” Circle Way is a bittersweet memoir of a father, daughter, and a prominent California family. Written in an evocative, expressionistic style, this work of creative nonfiction flutters somewhere between journalism and poetry. At the heart of the story, journalist Mary Ann Hogan grapples with identity, family, and the creative calling. Sifting through her father's notebooks after his death, Mary Ann discovers a man whose unrealized dreams echo her own. Eager to learn more about her family even as she wrestles with terminal illness, Mary Ann explores the fascinating cast of characters who were her forebearers. We meet the author’s great grandfather, an Oakland lumber baron who lost his fortune in the crash of ’29, and a great uncle who was sent to San Quentin for two deaths some say he may not have caused. Richly illustrated with Bill Hogan’s original sketches and watercolors, this poignant and absorbing tale is an immersive feast for anyone interested in literature, history, and the often-mysterious facets of family.

Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307277615
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circling My Mother written by Mary Gordon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing her exceptional talent for detail, character, and scene to bear on the life of her hard-working single mother, a bestselling author gives us a deeply felt and powerfully moving book about their relationship. “A daring and perceptive work of memory, catharsis and literary grace.” —Los Angeles Times Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother—Mary Gordon's father died when she was still a girl—she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise her daughter on her own, and worship the beauty in life with a surprising joie de vivre. Toward the end of Anna's life, we watch the author care for her mother in old age, beginning to reclaim from memory the vivid woman who helped her sail forth into her own life.

Author : Hank Lentfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Refuge written by Hank Lentfer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented to Congress on March 28, 2001, this book brings together the latest word from key conservation leaders as well as firsthand accounts by Alaska residents on how they and neighboring wildlife would be affected should oil drilling proceed according to current plans. The book includes original pieces by Jimmy Carter, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Bill McKibben, Scott Russell Sanders, Rick Bass, and Terry Tempest Williams. All royalties from sales of Arctic Refuge -- and an additional contribution from Milkweed Editions -- will go to the Alaska Conservation Foundation.

Author : Jean Shinoda Bolen
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 160925922X
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Toward the Millionth Circle written by Jean Shinoda Bolen and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Describes how every woman can be supported by a circle of friends with a sacred center, and how circles multiply their spiritual and political energy.” —Isabel Allende While women’s individual experiences and stories differ, there remains to be a uniting factor that draws women from around the world together. In this book for women, author Jean Shinoda Bolen calls upon this uniting factor, this feminine spirit ingrained in the soul of each woman, as a source of motivation for activism. As a result, this activism focused on women empowerment is person-focused and heart-centered. Each of us wields the power to make change. By channeling our passions into all that we do, our voices and our actions, we take this world one step closer to being a better home for all who live in it. But joining with others is key to this effort. Bolen emphasizes the importance of relying on a support system, particularly women’s circles, in order to grow in influence. The metaphoric millionth circle is the tipping point into a post-patriarchal era. It is through the process of a growing number of people changing their perceptions and behaviors that a new era will begin. Those in the circles feed the activism by strengthening each other, and in turn, the movement as a whole. This spiritual book for women serves as a practical and poetic call to action, inspiring women and others to follow a path with soul. In Moving Toward the Millionth Circle you’ll discover . . . A deeper dive into The Millionth Circle Initiative Words of passionate wisdom from an internationally known author and speaker A rallying cry for all women seeking change

Author : Stephen Breyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674028777
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Vicious Circle written by Stephen Breyer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives its failures and weaknesses as well, it pinpoints the most serious problems and offers a creative solution that would for the first time bring rationality to bear on the vital issue of priorities in our era of limited resources.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Circle written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Robertson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439163634
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vicious Circle written by Linda Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.