Grief Is Like A Snowflake Activity And Idea Book

Author : Nancy White Carlstrom
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316128308
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snow Speaks written by Nancy White Carlstrom and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the sights and sounds of the season's first snowfall, leading up to the coming of Christmas.

Author : Amy Ellis Nutt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439150078
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows Bright as Glass written by Amy Ellis Nutt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an utterly inexplicable reason, a tiny blood vessel, thin as a thread, deep inside the folds of his gray matter had suddenly shifted ever so slightly, rubbing up against his acoustic nerve. Any noise now caused him excruciating pain. After months of seeking treatment to no avail, in desperation Sarkin resorted to radical deep-brain surgery, which seemed to go well until during recovery his brain began to bleed and he suffered a major stroke. When he awoke, he was a different man. Before the stroke, he was a calm, disciplined chiropractor, a happily married husband and father of a newborn son. Now he was transformed into a volatile and wildly exuberant obsessive, seized by a manic desire to create art, devoting virtually all his waking hours to furiously drawing, painting, and writing poems and letters to himself, strangely detached from his wife and child, and unable to return to his normal working life. His sense of self had been shattered, his intellect intact but his way of being drastically altered. His art became a relentless quest for the right words and pictures to unlock the secrets of how to live this strange new life. And what was even stranger was that he remembered his former self. In a beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Ellis Nutt interweaves Sarkin’s remarkable story with a fascinating tour of the history of and latest findings in neuroscience and evolution that illuminate how the brain produces, from its web of billions of neurons and chaos of liquid electrical pulses, the richness of human experience that makes us who we are. Nutt brings vividly to life pivotal moments of discovery in neuroscience, from the shocking “rebirth” of a young girl hanged in 1650 to the first autopsy of an autistic savant’s brain, and the extraordinary true stories of people whose personalities and cognitive abilities were dramatically altered by brain trauma, often in shocking ways. Probing recent revelations about the workings of creativity in the brain and the role of art in the evolution of human intelligence, she reveals how Jon Sarkin’s obsessive need to create mirrors the earliest function of art in the brain. Introducing major findings about how our sense of self transcends the bounds of our own bodies, she explores how it is that the brain generates an individual “self” and how, if damage to our brains can so alter who we are, we can nonetheless be said to have a soul. For Jon Sarkin, with his personality and sense of self permanently altered, making art became his bridge back to life, a means of reassembling from the shards of his former self a new man who could rejoin his family and fashion a viable life. He is now an acclaimed artist who exhibits at some of the country’s most prestigious venues, as well as a devoted husband to his wife, Kim, and father to their three children. At once wrenching and inspiring, this is a story of the remarkable human capacity to overcome the most daunting obstacles and of the extraordinary workings of the human mind.

Author : Julia Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937870140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blueloon Activity and Idea Book written by Julia Cook and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplementary teacher's guide for Blueloon. Full of discussion questions and excercises to share with students.

Author : Martha Barnette
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466856882
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dog Days and Dandelions written by Martha Barnette and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From apian (like a bee) to zodiac (little-animals circle), a word book that spots the animal origins of words and names There are mice in your muscles, and blackbirds in your merlot. Behind adulation is a dog's wagging tail. Peculiar houses a herd of cattle. Grubby is crawling with bugs. Wordhound Martha Barnette collects more than 300 common (and a few not-so-common) words that have surprising animal roots. Tracing word origins back to ancient Greek and Latin as well as to European roots and American slang, the entries offer a guided tour through literature, science, folklore, politics, and more--with a wilderness of animal meanings at every turn. For fledgling word sleuths as well as those who fawn over etymologies, this is a delightful smorgasbord for writers, students, and word lovers.

Author : Marlena Graves
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1441246452
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Disaster written by Marlena Graves and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving biblical insights and personal narratives, this eloquently written book shows how God often uses suffering and desert experiences to form us into Christ's image. Marlena Graves shares her experiences of growing up poor in a house plagued by mental illness as a means to explore the forces God uses to shape us into beautiful people in the midst of brokenness. This book offers a window into suffering through the motif of desert spirituality, revealing how God can use our painful experiences to show himself faithful. While no one welcomes suffering, God often uses desert experiences--those we initially despise and wouldn't wish on anyone--to transform us into beautiful souls who better resemble Jesus. Graves shows how God can bring life out of circumstances reeking of death and destruction, whether those circumstances are crises or daily doses of quiet desperation. Readers who have experienced suffering and question God's purpose for it will benefit from this book, as will counselors, pastors, professors, and mentors. It includes a foreword by John Ortberg and Laura Ortberg Turner.

Author : Ralph Crew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inspirational Snowflakes written by Ralph Crew and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A metaphor comparing snowflakes to humanity. Discusses diversity, acceptance, and equality in a unique fashion. Great for all ages. Engaging photographs of snowflakes along with inspirational prose.

Author : Nathalie Slosse
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784505099
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Tree is Sick written by Nathalie Slosse and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snibbles and Big Tree are best friends! They have always hung out together, and Snibbles loves Big Tree very much. When Big Tree unexpectedly falls ill with woodworm, Snibbles is very upset and angry. The illness is a very bad one and Big Tree does not feel well and doesn't want to play for a long time. Poor Snibbles! He wants Big Tree to get better, but he feels as if there is nothing he can do. What can Snibbles and his friends do to help Big Tree through his treatment and recovery? This beautifully illustrated storybook describes the anger and emotion that many children encounter when a close relative or friend is diagnosed with a long-term illness, such as cancer. The story of Big Tree depicts how things are often out of your control and sets out effective strategies for dealing with these emotions. This story features loveable characters and vivid illustrations, as well as activities for children aged 5+ to complete with their parents or professionals in times of illness and loss.