Author: Coninyah B. Dew
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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About the Book Fractures and Echoes is a project based simply on the author’s story of learning and growing. This project has been about the nudges to share with others the author’s own hard-learned lessons. It is written through the lens of conversations between a student and his teacher. The student is young and highly inexperienced. His reliance upon his teacher’s guidance brings him to moments of deep reflection of his motives and intentions. The student is consistently challenged to prove his resolve in his commitments. In the face of the wisdom of his teacher, the student’s true heart is revealed. Each conversation is designed to stand alone and allow the reader the opportunity to reflect through his own experience. Each entry is a one page spread, with intention, to cater to a reader that may have limited time for leisure. In this way, the reader is provided with thoughtful seeds to consider that are elicited by new perspectives, emotional responses, or a combination therein. The reader is invited to actively participate with the entries. The meditative format presented provides guidance in the creation of a space that allows the reader to attune to the lessons and awareness that may be received. Whether the reader chooses to read one page to the next or simply a single entry as so moved, there are guiding questions to prompt deeper reflections. The motivation is to allow the reader to open to the ways and nuances that each entry's lessons have operated in the reader's own life. As an adjunct, the reader will be provided with conscious language to give expression to insights that the reader might not otherwise have had access to. Fractures and Echoes is intended to be the first installment of fifty entries with four additional volumes to follow. Each volume will build to capture a progression in the quality of the student’s questions. Through the course of this series, the student is offered the opportunity to become the teacher, passing along all that has been learned to another generation. About the Author Coninyah was born in Chicago in 1974 to a family that valued education and service. Though he was raised by a single mom, alongside his sister, Coninyah learned at an early age to question why he felt disconnected from his family and from himself. His formative years were shaped by his affinity for poetry, science, and athletic competition. After graduating high school in Wheaton, Maryland in 1992, he graduated in 1996 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering. Coninyah then spent 5 years as a military police officer in the US Army, which challenged his perspective of who he thought himself to be. Resigning from the military left Coninyah questioning who he was outside of the context of the army. Traveling from job to job, he found his way to New Mexico where he earned a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine in 2006. Coninyah, along the way, also found teachers who would be instrumental in his course corrections. He would work to lay down dysfunctional habits of distraction and engage what would be his life’s work that continues to unfold. Coninyah now teaches meditation and is a practitioner of the healing arts.
Author: Coninyah B Dew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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About the Book Fractures and Echoes is a project based simply on the author's story of learning and growing. This project has been about the nudges to share with others the author's own hard-learned lessons. It is written through the lens of conversations between a student and his teacher. The student is young and highly inexperienced. His reliance upon his teacher's guidance brings him to moments of deep reflection of his motives and intentions. The student is consistently challenged to prove his resolve in his commitments. In the face of the wisdom of his teacher, the student's true heart is revealed. Each conversation is designed to stand alone and allow the reader the opportunity to reflect through his own experience. Each entry is a one page spread, with intention, to cater to a reader that may have limited time for leisure. In this way, the reader is provided with thoughtful seeds to consider that are elicited by new perspectives, emotional responses, or a combination therein. The reader is invited to actively participate with the entries. The meditative format presented provides guidance in the creation of a space that allows the reader to attune to the lessons and awareness that may be received. Whether the reader chooses to read one page to the next or simply a single entry as so moved, there are guiding questions to prompt deeper reflections. The motivation is to allow the reader to open to the ways and nuances that each entry's lessons have operated in the reader's own life. As an adjunct, the reader will be provided with conscious language to give expression to insights that the reader might not otherwise have had access to. Fractures and Echoes is intended to be the first installment of fifty entries with four additional volumes to follow. Each volume will build to capture a progression in the quality of the student's questions. Through the course of this series, the student is offered the opportunity to become the teacher, passing along all that has been learned to another generation. About the Author Coninyah was born in Chicago in 1974 to a family that valued education and service. Though he was raised by a single mom, alongside his sister, Coninyah learned at an early age to question why he felt disconnected from his family and from himself. His formative years were shaped by his affinity for poetry, science, and athletic competition. After graduating high school in Wheaton, Maryland in 1992, he graduated in 1996 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering. Coninyah then spent 5 years as a military police officer in the US Army, which challenged his perspective of who he thought himself to be. Resigning from the military left Coninyah questioning who he was outside of the context of the army. Traveling from job to job, he found his way to New Mexico where he earned a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine in 2006. Coninyah, along the way, also found teachers who would be instrumental in his course corrections. He would work to lay down dysfunctional habits of distraction and engage what would be his life's work that continues to unfold. Coninyah now teaches meditation and is a practitioner of the healing arts.
Author: Coninyah Dew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Each of us has our own unique journey to self-awareness, self-awakening, self-acceptance and self-love. Though there are many accounts of the paths taken, the path we choose is for us to decide. The exemplars before can only point to a way and leave impressions for us to interrogate our own experiences. Fractures and Echoes is based in Coninyah's experiences, awarenesses and realizations that he has come to understand through his disciplined, meditative practices. Those practices have enable him to touch not only the light of his being but also those of the darker recesses he disavowed and continue to uncover in his ongoing work towards his healing. Coninyah's practices have ushered him to understanding his human condition. As a byproduct, his practices have also deepened his spiritual connection, growth and relationship with others be they human or that of the natural world. Fractures and Echoes is an effort to share Coninyah's experiences through conversational exchanges between he and his Teacher. It is his hope that you may yours.
Author: Taylor Brorby
Publisher: Ice Cube Press
ISBN: 9781888160901
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together a choir of established and emerging writers, giving voice to the complexities of hydraulic fracturing across the United States. During a time in which so much information is known about fracking, art is needed to move the public consciousness and national conversation towards better land practices. In the tradition of Wallace Stegners 'This is Dinosaur,' Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimbles 'Testimony,' and Rick Bass and David James Duncans 'The Heart of the Monster,' Fracture braids together essays, poems, and fiction to help bring new understanding to the plight of fracking. Pam Houston provides an introduction.
Author: Ulrich R. Rohmer
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3955009459
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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This anthology is a collection of fine reads serving as chicken soup for mind and soul. Some of this stuff is controversial as it is supposed to be such way, for controversial texts are not seldom those ones pushing our mind to new horizons.
Author: Dhruvakumar A. Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Amy A. Koenig
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299345300
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Imperial Rome privileged the elite male citizen as one of sound mind and body, superior in all ways to women, noncitizens, and nonhumans. One of the markers of his superiority was the power of his voice, both literal (in terms of oratory and the legal capacity to represent himself and others) and metaphoric, as in the political power of having a "voice" in the public sphere. Muteness in ancient Roman society has thus long been understood as a deficiency, both physically and socially. In this volume, Amy Koenig deftly confronts the trope of muteness in Imperial Roman literature, arguing that this understanding of silence is incomplete. By unpacking the motif of voicelessness across a wide range of written sources, she shows that the Roman perception of silence was more complicated than a simple binary and that elite male authors used muted or voiceless characters to interrogate the concept of voicelessness in ways that would be taboo in other contexts. Paradoxically, Koenig illustrates that silence could in fact be freeing--that the loss of voice permits an untethering from other social norms and expectations, thus allowing a freedom of expression denied to many of the voiced.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671000365
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Presents a collection of humorous language errors from newspaper headlines, politician's remarks, court transcripts, insurance forms, signs, and classified ads.
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ISBN:
Category : Reminiscing
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Author: Steven Eliri
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781505774405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Our life creates a series of echoes - so too the lives of those around us. The physical world, as well as the conceptual, all produce echoes that resonate with thought and emotion. This collection of poetry represents the reflections and reactions to these echoes that one writer has so far faced, encapsulating themes of childhood, oppression and freedom, dreams, and the heavy beats and breaks of love. These poems represent creative responses to various imagery, whether found in art, photography, or film, along with personal thoughts that reflect upon the physical as well as the metaphorical world. While the voice captured by these poems expresses the echoes of one individual's life, the hope is that the reader may find within their forms the means for finding and understanding their own.
