Corballis argues that mind-wandering has many constructive and adaptive features. These range from mental time travel?the wandering back and forth through time, not only to plan our futures based on past experience, but also to generate a continuous sense of who we are--to the ability to inhabit the minds of others, increasing empathy and social understanding. Through mind-wandering, we invent, tell stories, and expand our mental horizons. Mind wandering , hardly the sign of a faulty network or aimless distraction, actually underwrites creativity, whether as a Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud, or an Einstein imagining himself travelling on a beam of light. Corballis takes readers on a mental journey in chapters that can be savored piecemeal, as the minds of readers wander in different ways, and sometimes have limited attentional capacity.

"Children who get distracted easily will relate to Sadie and will realize they can focus on their positive qualities." —Oregon Coast Youth Book Preview Center Sadie feels like her thoughts are soaring into the clouds and she can’t bring them back down to earth. She has trouble paying attention, which makes keeping track of schoolwork, friends, chores, and everything else really tough. Sometimes she can only focus on her mistakes. When Sadie talks to her parents about her wandering, dreaming mind, they offer a clever plan to help remind Sadie how amazing she is. Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with more information on ADHD, self-esteem, and helping children focus on the positives.

This collection of poetry, prose, open political letters, lyrics, and short stories is mostly autobiographical and entirely illuminating. It is the poignant tale of a life marked by loss but also by strength of character and the will to push forward through hardship. Ideas of equality and unity save lives by starting conversations and opening minds to possibilities. This book is the beginning of that conversation. It is a meditation on healing, loss, and the ways in which we thrive together. It is sure to enthrall readers young and old as they are reminded that there is always hope, and a silver lining to every cloud.

Tara Amar die gebürtige Deutsch-Aramäerin ist Schriftstellerin, Poesieliebhaberin und wie sie sich selber bezeichnet Kämpferin für Gerechtigkeit in allen Schichten, Formen und Menschen dieses Planeten. Sie hat Musik, Kunst & Philosophie in Berlin studiert und ihre große Leidenschaft, die Poesie, zu Ihrem Beruf gemacht. Ihre Devise: Aufschreiben, was sie fühlt. Denn sie weiß, dass Sie mit ihren Gedanken nicht alleine ist und möchte im Zuge dessen vielen Menschen rund um den Globus kraft und inspiration schenken, sich wieder selber mehr zu fühlen und lieben. Im Inneren dieses schönen Poesiebuches findet ihr über 80 spannende und aufregende Poems direkt aus ihrem Herzen - kraftvoll und tief geschrieben. Ihr erstes Werk: "Wandering Thoughts" by Tara Amar - Joy comes from Inside ist nun überall auf Amazon erhältlich und wartet darauf von Dir entdeckt zu werden. {Englische Ausgabe} "After the pillow soaks up her tears and the bed sheets pull her into restful slumber the night undoes her suffering and with the sunrise comes a promise" - ♥ What are you waiting for? - Feel the Love und bestelle noch heute ein Exemplar. Entweder als Geschenk oder für Dich selber. ♥

Have you ever had situations with such lasting impacts that you still wonder about them? Wandering Thoughts That Wonder is a fine demonstration of prose that is simple, yet compelling and replete with nuggets of recollections. The recollections are rich in meaning, with a refreshing viewpoint, yet they are open to interpretation, thus raising questions about all that we hold familiar. This book aims at bringing out an extraordinary understanding to ordinary everyday events.

Gao Xingjian does not write many poems, but the ones he has written are real gems; they are snippets of his reflective moods. To those of us who know the man, he is poetry incarnate, with the essential purity and density of a good poem. The present collection, his first and only poetry anthology in English translation, affords insights into Gao's philosophy of freedom and the independence of spirit, and elucidates his ideas as a novelist, dramatist and painter. Modern art, claims Gao, is at a crisis point, under attack from all sides by onslaughts coming especially from politics and the marketplace, which results in what he calls the "annihilation" of beauty. We see Gao Xingjian as a natural, warm, and insightful thinker capable of grace, beauty, and his own brand of esoteric wisdom, at times almost honest to a fault but not without a touch of humor and wittiness. A riveting and compulsive read.