I have always thought that a poem does not have 'one' meaning. It can (and has to) have many: one for each and every reader. If it's so, what could be the meaning of the following verses?"/ Your eyes –Ethereal / Like butterfly wings./"Or :"Imagine how / Long was the night / And it broke into a day / Loaded with shadows — ../"Or, again:"/ Where charcoal snow falls and freezes her heart, / With an occasional acid rain that melts her bones./"Following...

A detailed look at the day-to-day life of a pilot serving during the Persian Gulf War against Iraq.This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that time. The pawns in the game, the ones that actually had to do the fighti...

“My husband was down on his knees, bloodied, battered, and beaten to the point he could barely hold himself up. He’d always been a warrior, my warrior. They would kill him, I knew that. I felt it with everything within me. My husband was going to die, and it was all my fault. . . .”Meet Marcel and Sabrina, a hitman and a bookkeeper for the Mob. The couple should have never met, let alone fallen in love. When they decide to go against the grain, all hell breaks loose. Somebody wants...

They were just kids when Claudette McPhearson took them all in. Eight of them all together, all different races and ethnicities, but she loves them as her own. One woman has taught them how to love, trust, and respect one another. Claudette is their light at the end of a long, troublesome tunnel, and she shines so bright.Then, one dreadful day, it all comes to a crashing halt. Claudette is walking to the bus stop from the juvenile correction center where she volunteers her time, and...

Michael Brick is one of those writers who never leaves your side, and what pleasurable company he provides.In reading this collection of his newspaper and magazine stories from Brooklyn, Houston, and beyond, picture the man. Tall, and lanky, and so proud to be Texan, wearing a brown vest and cowboy boots, his narrow reporter's notebook in his back pocket slapping at his flat ass, as if urging him onward because these blank pages needed filling.Brick's words breathe life int...

When Claudette McPhearson died, she left eight foster children to fend for themselves after they discovered the truth about her secret life. She was the leader of the Syndicate, a criminal enterprise that had a stronghold on the underworld. Much to her children’s chagrin, it was up to one of them to step up and take the lead. Javon, her oldest and most trusted son, took on that mantle. It was a role he had never wanted, but with threats to his family coming from every direction, he had no ...

All hell has broken loose, and the McPhearson clan is right in the middle of the chaos. After finding out their beloved foster mother, Claudette McPhearson, was anything but the sweet old woman they thought her to be, Javon, Shanelle, and the rest of their siblings hit the ground running in order to keep the Syndicate operating and to keep themselves alive. That also means they have to lose some of the people they love the most.With the legacy of their mother and her plans for them ...

Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective organizers in mass movements, fostering the imagination of alternative futures. Beginning with the Second World War, Radicals in America extends all the way down to the present, maki...

She Was Never Really the World's - She Was Always HisA princess of Merta. A blue deity. A love that no palace wall and no royal husband could extinguish. Before Mirabai lifted her voice in her first pada, before she danced barefoot in the temple, before she was called mad, saint, or rebel - she was already His. Born Already His tells her early story from inside the living warmth of the bhakti tradition itself, where every word is an offering and every pa...

Eugene Rose was brilliant, broken, and utterly lost - a young philosopher drifting through the ruins of Western thought, consuming Nietzsche and Camus and finding only beautiful dead ends. He drank from every well the modern world offered and came up empty every time. And then, through a path no one could have predicted, the hollowness itself became the doorway.This is not a saint-card biography. The Hollow and the Holy is the full, unvarnished road - from...

He Is of Our Lineage: The Making of a God-Bearer opens where every life opens - not with a halo, but with a household. A mother lighting a candle. A child in Kursk who would fall from a great height and live. A young man who heard something in Kiev that changed the direction of everything, and then took the road to Sarov and did not turn back.This is the first volume in a three-part life of St. Seraphim of Sarov. It traces his formation from merchant's son to novic...

The Buddha Never Left. The Dharma Is Still Speaking - And It Is Speaking to You.On the night of the full moon at Kushinagar, as the sal trees bloomed out of season and the earth itself bore witness, Shakyamuni Buddha offered his final and most profound gift. Not a relic. Not a successor. Not a doctrine carved in stone. He offered the Dharma itself - alive, luminous, and inexhaustible - as the living master that would never die.The Dharma Remains