this book was and created and made by us, LOVE Ourselves, simply for the people who are in need of some lessons; also blessings on their journey in life, to help them to live, laugh and to simply soar lie never before in many areas of their lives and to be happy with better; brighter days; ways knowing that we, God, LOVE Himself;I, one of his angels of love do; does care. and no, this book is not fiction but a book of poems that comes with much blessings to earn n with lessons to learn. shalom. LOVE Ourselves with love.

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

I've always enjoyed writing. It's always been a great therapeutic tool. People always ask me "Anthony why are you so polite, nice, and courteous to everyone around you?" I always reply "because the world isn't" I truly believe everyone should write and feel free to express themselves in a manner befitting their own personality. We all have experiences in life we regret and experiences we cherish. This is my little contribution to the world saying you're not alone. A great friend once told me "it gets worse before it gets better" and she was absolutely right always stay positive and have faith and you'll go far in life. This book is dedicated to the people who have helped me in my life's journey and I want to say thank you.

A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetry Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem has slowly gained cult status, and its admirers have included Salvador Dalì—who dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the era—André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery. Roussel began writing New Impressions of Africa in 1915 while serving in the French Army during the First World War and it took him seventeen years to complete. "It is hard to believe the immense amount of time composition of this kind of verse requires," he later commented. Mysterious, unnerving, hilarious, haunting, both rigorously logical and dizzyingly sublime, it is truly one of the hidden masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism. This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the English poet Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation on facing pages. It also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution, notes explaining its literary and historical references, and the fifty-nine illustrations anonymously commissioned by Roussel, via a detective agency, from Henri-A. Zo.