Everyday people experience everyday events. Some are good, exciting, and worth writing home about. Other things are difficult, sometimes tragic, and sometime unexplainable. Yet everyday experiences are real and folks go through all kinds of emotions and feelings to get to their understanding of who they are. Everyone experiences some sort of handicap and/or disability. How you accept this thought, deal with this thought, work with and through this possibility, and share yourself through your handicaps and/or disability is how others see you. “From Eagle To chicken And Back” is a journey of faith, life’s experiences, humor, and a vision of insight. Designed not to focus attention on the author’s life’s experiences with handicaps and disabilities but to help guide the reader into exploring their own personal experiences on their own life’s journeys. Through the use of short stories the author takes you through his experience of losing physical sight because of type I diabetes on a journey from brokenness to wholeness. His humor, wit, and spiritual insight opens doors of possibilities on how any person can find healing and wholeness despite the tragic adversities that life sometimes deals. There are no hidden promises or guarantees that the journey is easy, simply an exploration and sharing of how one person found wholeness and inner joy through faith and humor.

Baby eagles are hatched in a chicken yard and are scorned and ridiculed because they are different. Another great eagle is captured and after his clipped wings grow in full, he encourages and inspires the other young eagles to realize their potential and to soar into the clouds.

As a chicken egg, Dylan is placed in an eagle's nest and when he hatches, confuses himself.

The Eagle who thought he was a chicken began as an impromptu story told to a group of school-age summer campers. It was so well received by the youth and adults that my friends urged me to put it into writing. The story is about a young eaglet who did not know who he was due in part to his fear of growing up and moving forth into the world. This would later play a contributing role in him assuming that he was a chicken based on what others had falsely told him about his identity. The eagle in this story represents a lot of youth and young adults who struggle to be something they are not or who have chosen a path in life that they are not sure of because of what others think is right for them. My eagle in this story discovers who he really is when he spreads his wings and learns to fly.

After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He takes it home and raises it with his chickens. When a friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not staying on the ground. "But this eagle walks like a chicken, eats like a chicken, even thinks like a chicken," the farmer replies. Twice, the farmer's friend tries to get the eagle to fly, but it sees the chickens on the ground and drops down each time. At last the friend, followed by the farmer, carries the young eagle back into the mountains and places the great bird on a rocky ledge, just before sunrise. As the air is filled with golden light and the sun appears, the friend cries, "Fly, Eagle, fly!" and the eagle raises its wings and soars upward, out of sight. This simply told yet dramatic story from Africa will delight children everywhere and encourage them to "lift off and soar," as Archbishop Tutu puts it in his foreword. In lovely, expressive paintings of great beauty, sparked with touches of humor, Niki Daly, an internationally known artist, catches the essence of this powerful tale.

De Mello's spiritual classic remains at the top of the Fount bestsellers more than five years after its original publication.

Inspire Integrity is addicting. It focuses on what it means to live an authentic life. Its chapters encourage people of all ages and circumstances to understand that authentic success comes from the attainment of: (1) a sincere sense of contentment, (2) strong personal relationships, and (3) a solid character. This is much different from worldly success such as excessive wealth, fame and popularity - things which, in and of themselves, do not have the capacity to make a person happy. It is designed to help people look critically at their life, think through their decisions, set priorities and goals, develop a solid character, avoid serious mistakes and discover their true passion in life. It draws on the major ethical frameworks of Aristotle, Mill and Kant as well as the Golden Rule as tools to avoid Benjamin Franklin's warning that people tend to get old too soon and wise too late. It presents a roadmap to accomplish this mission and advocates that each reader start the journey to authentic success now! Inspire Integrity focuses on the story of Cash, the racing greyhound, who is world famous and has won tens of millions of dollars winning races. The biggest race of his life is on the horizon and everyone is there, including the press, to cover history in the making. If he wins the race his owner will receive a million-dollar prize. The night before the race, Cash reveals he's not going to race the next day and that he is retiring completely. Shocked, the owner asks him whether he is hurt, mad at her, or too old? He responds that it's none of those things. In fact, he's been doing a lot of critical thinking about his life and has come to the conclusion that all he's ever done is run around dirt racetracks, and he just cannot do it anymore. He finally understands that those little white rabbits that everyone encourages him to chase day and night aren't even real.

Having Assets, Skillsets, and the inproper Mindset will have you wondering how you blew through all that cash so fast. You had assets, but they blew away. You have a skillset that can make you money, but you can't seem to multiply it or save it at the very least. Are you programmed to sell your time for money, and that sounds "OK" to you? Then I say Show me your friends and I'll show you your future. Pick five of your close friends. You are the sum total of the average of your five closest friends. High-Performance people stand alone like the Eagle. "You Can't Fly With The Eagles If You Are Running With The Chickens"

A naturalist finds an eagle cooped up with a man's chickens and tries to prove that the eagle would soar again if given a chance.

From the domestication of the bird nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat, the history of this seemingly commonplace bird is anything but ordinary. How did chicken achieve the culinary ubiquity it enjoys today? It’s hard to imagine, but there was a point in history, not terribly long ago, that individual people each consumed less than ten pounds of chicken per year. Today, those numbers are strikingly different: we consumer nearly twenty-five times as much chicken as our great-grandparents did. Collectively, Americans devour 73.1 million pounds of chicken in a day, close to 8.6 billion birds per year. How did chicken rise from near-invisibility to being in seemingly "every pot," as per Herbert Hoover's famous promise? Emelyn Rude explores this fascinating phenomenon in Tastes Like Chicken. With meticulous research, Rude details the ascendancy of chicken from its humble origins to its centrality on grocery store shelves and in restaurants and kitchens. Along the way, she reveals startling key points in its history, such as the moment it was first stuffed and roasted by the Romans, how the ancients’ obsession with cockfighting helped the animal reach Western Europe, and how slavery contributed to the ubiquity of fried chicken today. In the spirit of Mark Kurlansky’s Cod and Bee Wilson's Consider the Fork, Tastes Like Chicken is a fascinating, clever, and surprising discourse on one of America’s favorite foods.