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Journey through a collection of free verse and traditional forms into scenes of family, faith, and grandma's house from the perspective of a 1960's childhood. Surround yourself in the sweet familiarity of nature and the changing seasons. Then travel on into the challenge of finding hope in the tears and turbulence of the early 2020's. This train will even jump the track, leave reality behind, and venture into the limitless possibilities of fanciful imagination. You're right on time. The train for somewhere else approaches now!

This book of poetry celebrates vulnerability and sensuality suffused with forgiveness and the redemptive power of perspective.Stars Along My Back is fragranced by the southwest desert under a lush full moon.

In the countryside near San Miguel de Allende, an NGO called Feed the Hungry San Miguel provides meals to students in dozens of elementary schools, including one in the small community of Los Ricos de Abajo. In addition, a group of volunteer English teachers shows up in Los Ricos every Wednesday during the winter months to teach the kindergarten students, the elementary through high school students, and the adults. The stories recorded here take you from the very beginning of the English program through its evolution, including the experiences of the students, the school director, Lucha, and one of the students, Yessenia. Few programs like this have existed for as long as this one has: our longevity is a tribute to the teachers and the Los Ricos community. For those who may consider doing something similar, within this tale are lessons to be learned. For those who loved being part of it, there are stories ahead that will inspire you to rejoice, learn, and share.

This collection of expressions will teach you more English/Spanish in an entertaining way. Every language has colorful expressions to communicate ideas. We have included many sayings that are virtually identical in both English and Spanish, such as, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Many phrases mean the same idea, but are expressed differently. For example, in English we say "fresh as a daisy," but in Spanish it is "fresh as a lettuce." We present Spanish as spoken in Mexico, but we but we also have some examples of European Spanish. These figures of speech are illustrated with cartoons. The text that accompanies each drawing may include information about the saying's origin or other similar expressions. We invite you to enjoy this book!

This book, spiritual in nature, bears witness through poetry and clay sculpture of the experience of divine essence. The soul journeys home through love's gate; love is the way deeper into life, and it is the gate that opens out of pain and into peace. Lynne McCarthy walks this meridian, this portal; her poems and sculptures-deeply personal and at the same time lightly liturgical-speak quietly with you, and chant the holy phrases of the perennial. They take you with her through her own becoming, and they also seem to say prayers for your own pilgrimage through love's gate. Poet Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Montreal and the Golden Antelope International Poetry Prize (China) and author, most recently, of A Beginner's Guide, writes this about McCarthy's book:Here are sculptures caught at the still center of their dervish dances of devotion; here are poems that could almost be the songs that the ecstatic dances of these stilled dervishes divined.In Lynne McCarthy's poems, as in her sculptures, play becomes holy again-both serious and delightful. These poems are at once prayers and playlists-liturgies of play, recipes for arrival back into Self and place and moment, intercessions with the divinities on behalf of all beings, in particular the lowly, and invitations to Home. Read these poems and delight again in your life.

"Amy Wray Irish is a fresh voice echoing Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Sharon Olds."-Michael J. Henry, Executive Director of Colorado's Lighthouse Writers Workshop, author of No Stranger Than My Own and Active GodsIn Down to the Bone, poet Amy Wray Irish wields visceral language to strip away the false narratives women are forced to wear. Irish roots out our strength-the bones we can't see but hold us together.After shedding our dead weight, Down to the Bone inspires women to rise up again. These poems invoke the witchcraft of bone broth; dig into the healing power of the earth; reframe Adam and Eve; and rewrite fairy tales to release us from our "princess prison." In the tradition of Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Robert Bly, Irish is a storyteller who reveals every tale as metaphor for a journey within. These poems are an invitation to give birth to ourselves again."In Down to the Bone, Amy Wray Irish wields the written lightning as she explores, questions, and champions a new mythology all our own." -Veronica Patterson, author of five books of poetry, most recently Sudden White Fan.