Author: Habib Chaudhury
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888271
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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"This volume advances the goals of affirming the dignity of and reinforcing personhood in adults with debilitating memory loss. Environmental gerontologist Habib Chaudhury draws on research and fieldwork--along with the stories and actions of persons with dementia and their loved ones--to discuss dementia and the concept of self."--Back cover.
Author: Linda Rich
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595447775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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An old farmhouse overlooks the scenic Spoon River in western Illinois. It has stood there for over a hundred years, sheltering Bobby and Neoma Hanks and their children through the early years of the twentieth century until 1927, when they leave the farm. Their move to town has momentous consequences. By 1950 the family has split up and is scattered across the country from New York to California. Decades later, grandson Drew owns the farmhouse he has always loved and eagerly shares his cherished childhood memories with his younger cousin Sharon. But for Sharon, who grew up in a different place and time, memories of her own childhood home evoke very different emotions. After her mother's death, Sharon struggles to come to terms with her past and wonders whether life in the old house on the Spoon, where her mother was born, was really as idyllic as Drew remembers.
Author: Toko-pa Turner
Publisher: Her Own Room Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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2018 Readers' Favorite Gold Winner 2019 IAN Book of the Year Award 2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner Feel like you don’t belong? You’re not alone.The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world — the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they spend a lifetime searching for it in vain. But what if belonging isn’t a place at all? What if it’s a skill that has been lost or forgotten? With her signature depth and eloquence, Toko-pa maps a path to Belonging from the inside out. Drawing on myth, stories and dreams, she takes us into the origins of our estrangement, reframing exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity. Then she shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world.
Author: J.M. Adele
Publisher: Book Flare Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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How do you forget your first love? The girl that haunts your dreams. The one that no other woman could ever live up to. The one you left behind... It takes a tragedy to wake Aiden Thomas from his stupor, prompting him to return to his home town. Nothing could've prepared him for what he finds when he gets there. His life, as he knows it, is about to change. It was time to stop hiding behind his lens. Angel Murphy had her heart ripped away when she was a teenager. She survived the toughest times of her life, with the help of her family. Fifteen years later, after another cruel blow, she is again scrambling to adjust. Angel doesn't know how much more she can take, when the man she thought she’d never see again returns. Can she trust him to stay this time, especially when he discovers the secrets he left behind? *Recommended for readers 18+ due to mature content.*
Author: Maja Mikula
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878685
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Memory, nostalgia and melancholy have attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades. Numerous critics of globalisation, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism have posited an overwhelming feeling of homelessness not only among people who have been displaced from their original home/lands, but also among those who feel estranged from their places of origin due to rapid social change or environmental decline. Arguably, homesickness is prevalent in today’s developed world, and can be – and sometimes indeed is – felt even for times and places unrelated to someone’s personal roots. Memory has been mobilised to justify recent conflicts, to question mainstream interpretations of past events, or to demand compensation for the suffering of earlier generations. Nostalgia has been employed as a “utopia in reverse”, revealing more about our unattainable “ideal present”, than about the elusive “lost” past it invokes. A corollary of nostalgia in the late modern politics of loss, melancholy has been a way of dis-identifying from both the horrors of recent history, and the growing insecurities of the present. The volume raises complex questions related to the ways people have coped with displacement and time-space compression, arguably the two most manifest symptoms of late modernity. How do we grapple with the traumatic experience of the loss of home? What strategies do we use, and what is their underlying politics? How do they intersect with identity positions, such as gender, class and sexuality? How might they contribute to the preservation of national cultures? How has our understanding of home changed in a time of mobility and flow? Spanning multiple Eurasian and Northern American cultural contexts, the book is of interest to an international academic readership within the fields of cultural studies, memory studies, gender studies, literature, art, performance, film and media studies.
Author: Janette Davies
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785336142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.
Author: Elsie Paul
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774827122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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Long before vacationers discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. In this remarkable book, Sliammon Elder Elsie Paul collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style. Raised by her grandparents who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, teachings, and stories and is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. She shares this traditional knowledge with future generations in Written as I Remember It.
Author: Kyoko Mori
Publisher: Gemma
ISBN: 1934848638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love, and finding home by a New York Times notable author. As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori's understanding of knitting deepens. From flawed school mittens to beautiful unmatched patterns of cardigans, hats and shawls, Kyoko draws the connection between knitting and the new life she tried to establish in the U.S. Interspersed with the story of knitting throughout, the narrative contemplates the nature of love, loss, and what holds a marriage together.
Author: James Woodward
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441131140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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A much-needed resource for reflection on the nature of dementia, particularly its spiritual dimension, And The implications for Churches and other faith groups.
Author: Jenny Hogg Ashwell
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504339878
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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As our companions through the current spiritual Awakening, Jesus, the archangels, and other spiritual teachers have gathered as the High Council and now share with us in Love’s Curriculum their messages of enlightenment. These Divine messages have a clear goal: To awaken us to the Love that connects all. You hold in your hands the High Council’s gift to you—a guidebook for this journey. Through Divine grace and enormous trust, Jenny Hogg Ashwell travelled a path from lawyer to student of spirituality and mother of three, to spiritual counselor and intuitive, to learn of her soul’s assignment to scribe Love’s Curriculum for the High Council and bring forth their messages to the world. It is with great humility, courage, and gratitude that she has done just this. Now, it is your turn. Let Love’s Curriculum gently awaken within you the memory of Love as you uncover your soul’s Divine purpose. Let it guide you to ignite Love in the world. The time has come to join in the Awakening. “We wish for you to read Love’s Curriculum. Within its pages you will find the Bounty of Love and Light to which you have been called—for which you have been dreaming and desiring to fill within you the void. Within its pages are the answers contained, the magic brought forth, the truth illuminated, for all to hear and see. Let Love’s Curriculum help you on your journey to awaken to Love. It is time.” —The High Council
