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"My God, I'm full of words," cries Warren Bluhm, the author of Gladness is Infectious, How to Play a Blue Guitar, A Bridge at Crosswords, and now Full: Rockets, Bells & Poetry. "The dance of the pen across the page is a deer prancing in the snow, kids racing through the grass, a performance car zipping across the flats so fast the videographer struggles to keep the machine in the frame." Here are notes, aphorisms and poems in three mini-collections: "The Creative Soul," reflections on making art and the power of words; "Live Free Or Die," thoughts about liberty, self-expression and emerging from dystopia; and "You Can Do This," encouraging words of finding light in a darkening world.
It has become almost a cliche to refer to these times with anxious adjectives: These challenging times, these trying times, these unprecedented times, these stressful times, these times, these times, these times. For more than a decade now, the world has gotten angrier and meaner and more afraid. Log into your favorite "social media" site, anytime, and someone will alert you about some outrage, someone will warn you about some threat, and someone will be shouting down voices of reason and calm and peace. This book has a simple but powerful message: Never mind that the world is scary and raging; if you reach inside to a calm place, you'll find the most basic of truths: It's going to be all right. Oh, change is inevitable, and tomorrow will not look like yesterday, but it's going to be all right. From the author of Echoes of Freedom Past and Refuse to be Afraid.
Tired of the fear mongers? Ready to plow through the nagging doubts and outright fears of various sizes and shapes that are keeping you from living your best life? Eager to take the leap into that new job, start that new business, or meet that person you'd really like to know better? What's keeping you back? This is the challenge before you: Faced with a scary reality, to navigate past the anxiety, refuse to be afraid, and free yourself to move on to your dreams. This revised and expanded edition of Warren Bluhm's groundbreaking 2010 book is more relevant to our times than ever.
"When this wonderful little book by Warren Bluhm first dropped into my hands a decade ago, I thought it was important. Today, I think it's particularly vital," Wally Conger writes in the preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Refuse to be Afraid. As Bluhm writes: "You are the boss of you. It's your life; you have to live with the choices you make; make sure those choices are actually yours. "The first step is controlling your fear. Not 'Don't be scared' - Don't let being scared stop you altogether. Question why you're scared: Is someone trying to scare you, and why? Is it a rational concern that merits moving forward with caution? Are you frightened beyond reason, and if so, what's a mo...
From the author of Refuse to be Afraid: The moment you realize or remember that you are sentient, that is, that you are alive and aware of being alive - is exhilarating. There's more to life! You can't change yesterday and tomorrow doesn't exist. All you have is now, this moment. What do you need to do right now, right here? The conscious person considers the needs of the moment, and acts - and then moves on to the next moment ... Are you ready to make a difference? This book is about becoming alive, getting in touch with God and the universe, and embracing the here and now - here, and now.
Even as the ink began to dry on the Declaration of Independence proclaiming a break from the tyranny of European-style government, a faction began plotting to re-forge the chains and re-establish Europe in the new world. When Thomas Paine returned to the United States in 1802 after a decade and a half abroad, he saw the leftover effects of a presidential administration who didn't trust the people to exercise the blessings of liberty appropriately. And so he wrote a series of eight letters, seven of them in fairly quick succession, with his thoughts about revolution, liberty and the state of the young nation he helped create. These letters remain relevant to this day.
From the pulse-pounding origin story to the fateful attack from beyond history and space that changed Astor City forever, it's all here. For the first time ever, you can have all 16 novelettes and two short stories in the Myke Phoenix canon collected in one edition. Here is the entire saga from the moment a mysterious spirit living in an unusual piece of pottery selects Paul Phillips, to the final showdown with the megalomaniacal talking dinosaur Deinonychus, with a new introduction by the author.
The people of Sirius 4 tried to overcome tyranny the old-fashioned way: by force. It turned out to be an imaginary revolution, replacing one violent regime with another. Raymond Douglas Kaliber suggested another way: that free people living by a spirit of non-aggression could live in peace and prosperity with one another. Before he could launch that bold experiment, however, he had to defeat the greatest tyrant of them all: his best friend ... Set in the same universe as the interplanetary romp The Imaginary Bomb, this novel sets a different tone, told in the voice of the man who led a planet to true freedom.
Even a cursory reading of Henry David Thoreau's immortal essay about civil disobedience reveals echoes in contemporary discussions of individual rights and the limits of government in a free society. Its themes resonate into the 21st century. Faced with a federal government that condoned the institution of slavery and was waging a war of questionable origin in Mexico, Thoreau pushed his readers to consider the responsibility of an individual with conscience. This edition includes "The definition of a peaceable revolution," an introductory essay by Warren Bluhm.