Showing results for "gratitude" in Literature & Fiction

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, in Gratitude Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end.

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment.

Marie y Jérôme los une su relación con Michka Seld, una anciana cuyos últimos meses de vida nos relatan estas dos voces cruzadas. Marie es su vecina: cuando era niña y su madre se ausentaba, Michka cuidaba de ella. Jérôme es el logopeda que intenta que la anciana, que acaba de ser ingresada en un geriátrico, recupere aunque sea parcialmente el habla, que va perdiendo por culpa de una afasia. Y ambos personajes se involucrarán en el último deseo de Michka.

Six months ago, Janine Grimson learned her best friend had an affair with her husband of twenty years—at the engagement party of their oldest daughter, Maggie. In the wake of that horrific event, Janine rekindled her relationship with her mother, Nancy, moved full-time to Martha's Vineyard, and found herself stronger, better, and brighter than ever before. Now, news from Manhattan shakes her to the core. Something tragic has happened to her ex-husband, Jack Potter—the only man she's ever truly loved—just two weeks before Thanksgiving.

In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged 15, by the author Doris Lessing and the subsequent 50 years of their complex relationship.

Marie owes Michka more than she can say - but Michka is getting older and can't look after herself any more. So Marie has moved her to a home where she’ll be safe. But Michka doesn’t feel any safer - she is haunted by strange figures who threaten to unearth her most secret, buried guilt, guilt that she’s carried since she was a little girl. And she is losing her words - grasping more desperately day by day for what once came easily to her.

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told that she acts or looks just like her mother? Fathers, brothers, and friends sometimes shake their heads in wonder as girls "turn into their mothers". This new collection from Chicken Soup represents the best stories from Chicken Soup's library on the special bond between mothers and daughters, and the magical, mysterious similarities between them.

In this audio postcard, I thank Kimmerer for sharing her gifts with us in her book Braiding Sweetgrass. Students in a Gender and Nature class share some of their takeaways and I discuss the book with a dear old friend.

The weaker sex? There's no such thing! Another jewel from the Gems of Sisterhood series, Gems of Gratitude is full of short stories about strong female characters who have something to be grateful for. In Unpunished, meet Cara Solino, a young woman who followed in her father's footsteps and joined the police force. Can she solve the crime that haunted him to the end of his days? Listen about Ms. Webb, a mother faced with the worst possible decision, and find out how she keeps Chloe's Dream alive!

Ce livre audio fait évoluer : du piège de la Victimisation et la Culpabilisation à la Joie de la Gratitude ; en passant par la découverte de diverses réalités sur la Vie, les Lois Universelles, notre Nature profonde, nos Cultures, nos Croyances, nos Pensées, nos Paroles, nos Actes, nos Relations, nos Émotions, nos Blessures et notre Foi.

"Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé combien de fois dans votre vie vous aviez réellement dit merci ? Un vrai merci. L'expression de votre gratitude, de votre reconnaissance, de votre dette. À qui ? On croit toujours qu'on a le temps de dire les choses, et puis soudain c'est trop tard." Après "Les Loyautés", Delphine de Vigan poursuit dans "Les Gratitudes" son exploration des lois intimes qui nous gouvernent. Une lecture dialoguée réalisée par quatre comédiens, qui donne toute leur épaisseur et leur sensibilité aux personnages.

Imagine a tool so potent that it transforms the very fabric of your reality. ‘Gratitude: The Silver Bullet’ isn’t just another book; it’s an exploration into the essence of gratitude. This isn’t about fleeting moments of happiness; it’s about creating a lasting legacy of triumphs. Instead of seeing gratitude as just an emotion, this book elevates it to the secret sauce for happiness and unparalleled success. And here’s the game-changer: Learn the secret all successful people in history have always utilized. By honing in on gratitude, you’re not only embracing a sense of purpose...

Un fantástico viaje entre el Cielo y el Infierno En El Gran Divorcio, C. S. Lewis de nuevo utiliza su formidable talento para contar fábulas y alegorías. En un sueño, el escritor se sube a un autobús una tarde lloviznosa y se embarca en un increíble viaje por el Cielo y el Infierno. Este es el punto de partida para la profunda meditación sobre el bien y el mal. "Si insistimos en quedarnos con el Infierno (o incluso la Tierra) no veremos el Cielo: si aceptamos al Cielo no podremos quedarnos ni siquiera con el más pequeño e íntimo souvenir del Infierno."

There is a special bond between mothers and their sons, and it never goes away. This book contains some of the best stories and poems from Chicken Soup's library honoring that lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring.

Escaping from a constricted life and an unhappy marriage, Neris slips into the woods whenever she can on the pretext of gathering herbs. These stolen moments are her sole comfort until the day she finds a wounded orc in the woods. Unable to stand by and watch another suffer, Neris tends him, bringing him food and medicine, protecting him until he can tend himself. The orc allows the attention because he knows Neris better than she knows herself- he can scent her, knows that she smells ripe and wanton, that his presence fires her lust.