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|  | | An Appearance of Glass
What started as a memoir account of my time in South Korea unfolded into a journey to reveal my own truths, that conflicted with what people thought they knew about me. The careful image of unseen words and the reveal of my childhood, as told through journals entries and a reader of those words. Through this journey, family and friends came to support my efforts, a fulfillment of a promise made to my mother to finally write the book that has taken me decades to fully understand. Through it all, I needed only to be exactly who I am. There was no need to reinvent the original. It was my life.
Written during the fall of 2009, during a compressed time, I set for to just simply write about my time in South Korea, which evolved into a much more painful and revealing look into my own life. Over the years, I had made many attempts to try to put into words what I lived through without glorifying the pain and suffering, and not wanting to sensationalize the horror.
This was a journey through not just a place, or time, but a journey to show that it just doesn't all get better over night. If I has written this work 20 years ago, it would have been a differ | |  | | Quills of Fire
An anthology created during the summer of 2009, by two poetesses. One writing while she was going through a dark period in Ghent, Belgium. The other, while teaching abroad in Daegu, South Korea. A challenge to both to say...it is possible to create in a world that pushes everyone to conform. One word, 24 hours were the only rules for the quills to be used. One word...that we lived with...BELIEVE.
strong>Author bio: Lena Vanelslander/strong> swam many waters; history, comparative culture analysis, languages. It all pertained to her study. Self-study however remained the most important thing, Mythology, Literature, Poetry, too many to sum up. Her career in poetry started briefly by a prize for European Poetry when she was eight but she remained writing more passively in her native language untill her twenties. After a life of tribulations the turning point came in her mid twenties: she started to write actively poetry in English and was showered with positive critique. Her melanchol | |  | | The Paris Diaries
What happens when you follow your heart instead of your head? What if you walked away from everything just to answer one question...the question of what if you just took a real chance and really lived. What if?
The Paris Diaries is a journey about love and what happened to me along the way.
The lessons, the people, and the reality that sometimes when you choose to love, in a jaded world, you grow in ways that are beyond flesh.
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Poet's Progeny
by Miller Caldwell
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 Robert Burns' first daughter was Elizabeth. Her story and the five descendants Scottish lives are recorded here with the Bard's message today as ever in need. Al Quida listen: Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that. That Sense |
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