![]() ![]() The story illustrates an important point that is central to fighting the effects of aging on the brain. Then I just did it again, every day up until today.” People would often ask him, “What’s your secret?” The man’s reply was always the same: “When I was a young man, I stretched and practiced and figured out how to make my body do this. This is a challenging physical contortion task for anyone, even young men. In addition to taking on new activities in order to keep your brain agile and young, Professor Vishton also recommends that you continue doing familiar activities that are important to you.įor example, there’s a story about a 90-year-old man who could put his legs up, over, and behind his head. ![]() Photo By Vladeep / Shutterstock Brain Agility and Familiar Activities Typically, as we notice decline in cognitive functioning, we develop strategies to compensate for the slower speed of performing our usual activities. According to Professor Vishton, keeping up with them will not only make us happier, but will also fight the effects of aging on the brain. Vishton, PhD, William & Mary Edited by Kate Findley and proofread by Angela Shoemaker, Wondrium Daily As we grow older, we often abandon the activities that bring us joy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And forcing Rafe to decide how far he’ll go to protect both of his families-the one he was born to, and the one he made for himself. They’ll go deep undercover in the decadent, luxury-soaked penthouses on the Hill.īringing Dani face-to-face with the man who turned her into a killer. When Maya needs to make contact with a sympathetic insider, Dani and Rafe are the only ones with the skill-set and experience to infiltrate the highest levels of the TechCorps. And Nina is organizing their community-not just to survive, but to fight back. Dani strikes from the shadows, picking off the chain of command one ambush at a time. Maya uses her wealth of secrets to weaken the TechCorps from within. Our band of mercenary librarians have decided that the time for revolution has come. In the aftermath of a devastating loss, the TechCorps is scrambling to maintain control by ruthlessly limiting access to resources to Atlanta, hoping to quell rebellion. Sunshine Supersoldier + Grumpy Assassin = !!! Praise for Deal with the Devil: A rollicking good time complete with warrior women, cybernetically enhanced super soldiers and a treasure hunt in a post-democracy United Stateslike something out of an Avengers flick Deal With the Devil is a solid sci-fi debut with unforgettable characters. ![]() ![]() Left alone, Alex seeks help from Nova, a brujo with ambitions of his own. So while most girls celebrate their Quinceañera, Alex prepares for her Deathday-the most important day in a bruja's life and her only opportunity to rid herself of magic.īut the curse she performs during the ceremony backfires, and her family vanishes, forcing Alex to absorb all of the magic from her family line. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in the Latinx-infused Queer fantasy series from Zoraida Córdova, highly acclaimed author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, that follows three sisters-and teen witches-as they develop their powers and battle magic through epic questing in the realms beyond.Īlex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. ![]() ![]() In this little library that has become the heart of this small town, Kit, Sunny, and Rusty are drawn to each other, and to a cast of other offbeat regulars. They're joined by Rusty, a Wall Street high-flyer suddenly crashed to earth. Bright, curious, and eager to connect with someone other than her off-the-grid hippie parents, Sunny coaxes Kit out of her self-imposed isolation. The judge throws the book at Sunny-literally-assigning her to do community service at the library for the summer. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems.īut that changes when fifteen-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary. ![]() Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. ![]() Most come for the books themselves, of course some come to borrow companionship. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. ![]() Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family.the kind you come from and the kind you create. ![]() From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ever pushes people away, due to fear of ridicule, and has trouble opening herself up to friendships and especially love. Even after she loses weight, she still has trouble with her cruel inner voice. I loved that about this book.īut the best thing about Skinny, for me, was how Ever battles her inner critic. Losing weight after surgery still requires a huge amount of work, and Cooner was great about showing a realistic glimpse of a post-surgical lifestyle. Surgery is not a cure-all, it's simply a tool to help people lose weight. Having worked with people before, during and after weight-loss surgery, I know enough about the process to be able to tell you that Skinny was an accurate portrayal of the process of weight-loss surgery. Ever has an uphill battle, with some slip-ups along the way, but is ultimately successful in losing a significant amount of weight. She starts to lose weight and change, slowly but surely, and is supported and coached by her best friend. By the way, I know that Skinny is actually Ever, but the book is written in a way that Skinny and Ever almost feel like two different people.įueled by fear and a sliver of hope for a better future, Ever decides to undergo gastric bypass surgery in a last ditch attempt to lose weight. Skinny loves to bring Ever down and is constantly saying such mean things to her. Her inner critic is on high alert, and constantly berating her. She is trapped inside her own body, and can't stop the cycle of overeating, guilt, and self-loathing. ![]() I really loved this book! I felt so badly for Ever. ![]() ![]() “My psychic initiation really began on evening in September 1963, however as I sat writing poetry. She had no interest in any new age concepts. Jane Roberts was an average writer from upper state New York. Fans of channeled readings, New Age thought, and The Secret may have fun with this book. ![]() The dense chapters mad me stop and question what I read. Some chapters are lighter to read than others. Seth Speaks also sinks into deeper esoteric information about reincarnating souls, lost civilizations, and the concept of God. I stamped Seth Speaks with a five-star rating for its extensive coverage of on my favorite New Age subjects: higher consciousness and multi-dimensional realities. Sadly, Roberts passed away before Hicks could meet her. Hicks heard of Jane Roberts and Seth as soon as she began her own channeling experience. ![]() I came across Jane Roberts and her book Seth Speaks after a brief mention of her in an Esther Hicks (Abraham) book I own. Happy Birthday to Jane Roberts! She was born on and would’ve been 88 years old today.
![]() ![]() Contrary to the film version again, only a few of the stories are about Mowgli. However, the book is quite different from the Disney film which tends to romanticize some of the characters and demonize others! The original Jungle Book includes the delightful Riki Tiki Tavi tales about a valiant and clever mongoose who protects his friends from the dangerous snakes of the jungle. The dreaded tiger Sher Khan is a diabolical villain, feared by all. As he grows, he is trained by denizens of the jungle like Bagheera the panther, Baloo the bear and Kaa the snake. Modern readers would be more familiar with the Disney animated version in which Mowgli the little “man-cub” is raised by wolves. The stories are in the form of fables, where animals communicate and speak to each other as humans do and the purpose of each story was to convey a moral or message to the reader. Originally written for his young daughter Josephine, who died tragically aged six, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories which were published separately in magazines before being compiled into a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1968, she helped found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. magazine, and she remained one of its editors for fifteen years. Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. ![]()
![]() ![]() “It had finally been made clear to me that as an ordained woman and a feminist, I was on the outs as a Southern Baptist and in the evangelical world,” she told me recently, “so I took a job as an associate minister at a United Methodist church instead.” After her applications to evangelical churches across Texas went unanswered, she took the hint. ![]() As graduation neared in 1985, Aldredge-Clanton was informed by the seminary’s placement office that it only sought to place males as pastors. Her growing interest in feminist theology made her feel like an outsider among her conservative classmates, who felt such ideas were heretical. One male student in another class dismissively asked if she came to seminary to get an “M-R-S” degree. ![]() In her preaching class, male students who objected to women teaching men criticized her sermons. It soon became clear that neither her Southern Baptist denomination nor the wider evangelical world held much space for her. (RNS) - When Jann Aldredge-Clanton enrolled at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1982, she considered herself a bona fide evangelical Christian with a reverence for the Bible and a love for the church. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, we see that sin is punished and that unrighteous dealings lead a nation or an individual to destruction. It also is evident from books preceding Judges, that the wickedness of the Israelites validates Israel’s subjugation to the Philistines. Time and again over the enemies of the Lord, but he was helpless against the power of his mortal flesh. Samson may have been a powerful man physically, but he was to intents and purposes a moral weakling. His old passions rise to the surface and Samson once again finds himself entangled in a web of sin. However, after a period of peace and steadfast service, Samson sadly falls once again into his old ways. Indeed one through whom God would “begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines” (Judges 13:5). That story ends with Samson having judged Israel for 20 years. ![]() He prayed to God and God ultimately delivered him from death through a great miracle. We earlier saw Samson calling on the Lord in humility. The last glimpse we have of Samson is of a man who seemed to have put his act together. Samson’s sensual attachment to women are they Klein (1988) alerts us that an even superficial reading of the book demonstrates that the epic is far more biographical in nature than any of the earlier chapters tends to be. The story of Samson one of the Israelite judges emanating from the tribe of Dan, was a Nazirite and it is indeed an intriguing one in the book of Judges. ![]() |