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The Working Life of an Hispano Patriarch, 1890 - 1976, is a rare glimpse into the life of a courageous human being who confronted every manner of calamity and personal challenge without flinching. His life spanned the end of New Mexico''s territorial period and the first several decades of statehood. At age seven, he began to journey out from his farming community of Chimay├│, NM into the illimitable spaces of the American Southwest in an effort to earn a living in a society progressively being driven by the cash economy of the United States. In one of his earliest trips he copes with the loss of his father who is brought back to Chimay├│ from a distant and arduous fruit-selling trek on the back of a horse-drawn wagon, only to die a few days later on the family farm. While still a teenager, he and a few of his friends walk more than a hundred miles across a mountain range to the great plains of New Mexico where they sell their labor to a company laying railroad across the west. Working ten hour days and hauling timbers that weighed as much or more than he did, he grows physically stronger, mentally sharper and morally more uncompromising. Over the years, Apolonio travels less due to his diligence and ability to do many things - farm, build houses, and sculpt. He becomes economically more secure as his farm prospers and his chile crop grows in demand. Together with his wife Celestina, he is able to devote more of his time to his family, farm and community. In his latter working years, he is able to supplement his livelihood with employment at the nearby New Mexico State Capitol and at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories. He rounds out a life that could only be described as "blessed" when during his final years he is able to devote himself exclusively to the carving of Catholic religious icons called "santos", play the harmonica and write out in longhand and in Spanish the inspiring story of his life.

Brother''s with Autism introduces Children of all ages. Dre and Eli has Autism. There brain works in a special way. It''s harder for them to make friends. Both brothers enjoy playing dress up together. These are ways of thinking to help our Children improve their own challenges.

Golfers' most essential tool is also their least understood tool: the brain.Golfers are of course aware that they use their brain to swing a club, plot strategy, and estimate outcomes. But most golfers know very little about how distinct brain functions promote or inhibit a satisfying round of golf. They're unaware that they can consciously shift modes to their benefit. They operate under the false assumption that the physical and mental aspects of golf are separate elements of the game.Without an adequate understanding of the interplay of the brain and the rest of the body, golfers can spend thousands of hours on the practice tee and still have disappointing rounds. They can buy the latest high-tech equipment and take decades of lessons, and still find themselves grinding away, hole after hole.Golf-even competitive golf-should be a pleasant experience. It should elicit our best selves, not our worst selves. This is the guiding principle of Fast-Brain Golf. The book's author, James H. Grubbs, is a practicing psychiatrist, competitive golfer, and golfing-brain instructor. His interest in psychology and neuroscience, and his years of golf experience, inform this practical and innovative guide to better golf.Fast-Brain Golf does not purport to reveal "secrets" of good golf-because, as the author insists, there are no golf "secrets." There is only adequate understanding of brain functions as they apply to golf, ongoing stroke practice, and the willingness to enjoy every round, regardless of what's at stake.Fast-Brain Golf is the first book in the series The Golfing Brain. The book draws from the most current research in neuroscience to explain basic principles of brain function in clear, accessible terms. At the heart of the book is a description of these two modes: fast-brain functions and slow-brain functions.Fast-brain functions are quick, energy efficient, and automatic. Most of our daily thinking and behavior is the result of fast-brain operations. Slow-brain functions are slower, more deliberate, and are time and energy consuming. We use slow-brain function to solve problems.After exploring these key functions, the author leads readers through ways that fast-brain and slow-brain modes apply to movement, attention, decision making, and learning in golf. He explains how to access either the fast-brain or slow-brain mode when it's needed in various situations during a round of golf or when acquiring new skills.Throughout this enlightening book, the author emphasizes that knowing some basic facts about the brain's workings leads to better golf at every level of play. He debunks the maxim that "Golf is a thinking person's game" by explaining how some forms of thinking, under certain circumstances, sabotage a golfer's game.Finally, the author offers several techniques and exercises for accessing these modes on the practice tee and on the course. He asserts that mastery of these techniques improves physical skills, attention, decision making, and learning-and, most importantly, it increases a golfer's enjoyment of the game.

Steven Ingrahm, born long before the internet, spent many hours enjoying the great outdoors in Upstate New York. After joining the United States Air Force, he traveled to countries all over the world, and discovered no matter where he went, all people live under the same stars and whether home or abroad, they partake in the love of nature. All of a person's senses can be stimulated at the same time, when they surround themselves in nature. While currently residing in California with his wife, Steven stays connected to his friends from back east via Facebook. Their photos of "home" awakened the mind's eye, creating an overwhelming need to place the scenes into words, these words can be felt, When Natures Speaks...

This story is about my daily experiences dealing with pain that death brings and my process in attempting to overcoming the issues of life as I walk it out on my way home. I am also learning that pain has a purpose. One of the result of pain is that you can become bitter and abort what God wants you to birth or you can make the decision to endure the pain as you bring forth a new birth into the earth. Hopefully my experience will help someone who is now experiencing the pain of losing a mate to the grim reaper. As for me, I declare that I am not a widow because I believe Joseph is al in heaven waiting for me.

Jamito's shoes are missing!Jamito's Shoes Are Missing! Can you help Jamito find them? Join Jamito and Jamito's playful puppy Pogi on their adventure to piece together the mystery. Will they find Jamito's shoes, or will Jamito discover something even more important?

This is a true story of my two dogs Scooby and Princess that had fun at the beach one day in summer at Huntington Beach. My two good dogs had a fun day at the beach. They don't like to get wet but had fun running a the beach one summer day. Sadly we lost both of them last year. They were both ten years old and both got a tumor. Scooby was. A runaway and we adopted him. He came to our front door and Princess Beauty I bought at Pet City. She was a pedigree.

She defied the "odds" and gave me strength and determination! Myracle's Journey was meant to be. I carried her to full term enduring excruciating pain for nine months. She outlived the "odds" and brought peace, joy, love and hope to me. When she kicked, I kicked back to let her know we were in this battle together. There were never any real signs of danger or trouble ahead. Nothing indicated she would be retarded. Today, holoprosencephaly (HPE) cannot be seen or detected in a fetus. This crania facial anomaly is something that happens. Scientists believe that HPE is caused by an environmental factor. Myracle was born fractured by the threads of her condition. She struggled and survived with ribbons and pearls of love, and grace to the bitter end in the left pit of my arms... She spent her earthly time, 21 months and 7 days and now she is at peace and so am I. No more beckoning stares and what ifs. As her mother, I feel free because she allowed me to be whom and what I am today. I am strengthened for all of my yesterdays with her and I am truly blessed. Her legacy will forever remain with me. I have used quotes and pictures in the book to illustrate a holistic approach to describing Myracle's Journey. It is my hope you will find favor in the words, pictures and phrases...the threads of her life. Myracle gave me her heart and I gave her my everlasting love! She is in heaven and my heart aches...

A powerful book about the clash of two cultures and its environmental impact. The Takua people lived along the upper Takua River and lake, where chinook, coho, and sockeye salmon had migrated for eons. The tribe had occupied the mouth of the large river ten thousand years ago as the ice caps receded during the last glacier age. As more of the river became open, the people migrated to the upper river, to the beautiful lake where resources were abundant. But in 1936, the CCC camps invaded the Takua forest to build a large hydroelectric dam on the river. When the dam was finally finished, the Takua people lost their lakefront property and were forced to move to a reservation, leaving many of their traditional and holy places lost, now underwater. In Indian Spirit Man, we meet Ahkah, the traditional chief of the Takua tribe, who lives on the Rez in an old school bus with no wheels. Startled from his nap by a vision of the Old Ones and their concerns about the hydroelectric dam, he engages his lifelong lawyer friend to help him appease the ancestors. But he will soon find out there is no resolution except to declare war on the dam...

MIRACLES are evidence of a greater reality and God is flipping destinies upside down! Astonishing, deeply moving true story of how the desperate faith of man provokes God to move. Former skeptic, Carol Warden, shares her personal experience of a series of unique miracles that take place in her life during a family crisis and a divine Supernatural encounter from heaven that changed her destiny, including never before seen photographs and also prophecy personal to the author. An extraordinary life changing story that will take your faith to a whole new level.

Tsunaxen's Journey, is written for the primary ages. This book is about a young native Indian boy who goes for a canoe ride and has a little adventure; the boy named Tsunaxen discovers islands and encounters wild animals. Tsunaxen discovers a positive way to cope and also leans on his cultural teachings to overcome and trust his Creator in all situations. This book is to help remind children to always pray or sing or praise our Creator and always lean on our Creator for all things.

Relentlessly, it seems, we examine and re-examine ourselves and our complex relationships to one another and the ongoing dramas of our lives, while forgetting the context in which all relationships take place. It''s the buzz-whatever beeps or flickers insistently enough-that claims our attention. And we unwittingly evolve to become what we most attend. How easy it is to believe ourselves distinct and apart from our tidy notions of "environment" and "natural world." Yet we cannot insist upon this separation without damaging consequences like those that now, equally insistently, threaten us. When we remove ourselves from the buzz, it becomes clear that we are of the environment, not outside it. The environment is in us, as we are in it. The hinterlands exist as those back countries that stubbornly stand sentinel around, above, and below us. When our thin veneers of habit and culture are stripped away, there remains the elemental. The rhythms, the solitude, the vast mental and emotional spaces graciously bestowed by the oceans and forests are fixed firmly upon our being. Not surprisingly, the poems in this collection, though they often feature the timeless complexities of human relationships, invariably play out against the firm backdrop of full context, of place-the hinterlands.

Join Iggy On His Great Adventure! This is the story of Ignatius, the curious young iguana living in the arid region of the small Dutch island of Aruba in the Caribbean, who eventually chooses to go off on his own and have an exciting adventure. After hearing stories from his friends about the large resorts, plentiful fruit, and rich, easy lifestyle on the other side of the island, he decides to pack his bags and leave his familiar settings in the desert to find out for himself. Despite the repeated warnings from his concerned mother, his sense of curiosity could not resist the unknown. From speeding vehicles to hostile iguanas to dangerous humans, Iggy soon learns that things are not as easy as he thought they were going to be. As time goes on, he finds it harder and harder to come across food and friends. Although he had assumed he knew more than his mother about the realities of life, he soon realizes he should have listened to her in the first place and stayed with his friends and family. Then, one day when he lets his guard down, he suddenly finds himself an unlikely prisoner, and wonders if he will ever see his family and friends again. Come travel with Iggy on his daring adventure as he ultimately learns to appreciate the love of his friends and family around him, as well as the caring advice of his wise mother.