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To Get Back Home is a medical thriller of the first order, a true story of triumph and survival over astronomical odds, as an otherwise healthy and active young woman fights for her life after being suddenly stricken by a rare neurological disorder, Acute Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis (ADEM). To Get Back Home takes you on a harrowing journey as Ms. Ford forges her way back from a coma and quadriplegia, desperate to return to her family and young children. Her life seemed perfect until Wendy Ford was stricken and rendered comatose within days, and then, after a tense weeks-long battle for survival, quadriplegic. At one of the most renowned hospitals in the world, Beth Israel Deaconess Medic...
This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2018 issue, Number 26. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010). ". . . [ ABLE MUSE ] fills an important gap in understanding what is really happening in early twenty-first century American poetry."—Dana Gioia. "Able Muse is refreshing to read for its sel...
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was the son of Cornelius Van Der Bilt (1764-1832) and Phebe Hand (1767-1854) of Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York. He married (1) Sophia Johnson (1795-1868, the daughter of Nathaniel Johnson and Elizabeth Hand (1770-1841) of Richmond Co., New York. Cornelius was the descendant of Jan Aertsen Van Der Bilt (c.1620/25-1705) who married (1) Anneken Hendricks in 1650; (2) Dierber Cornelis and (3) Magdalentje Hanse in 1681. Jan was the first of the family to come to New Amsterdam. He was from the village of Bilt in the province of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Cornelius and Sophia were the parents of thirteen children. Descendant lines are given for their son William Henry Vanderbilt and for the descendants of their daughters.
Surprisingly little has been written about how Zen came to North America. "Zen Master Who?" does that and much more. Author James Ishmael Ford, a renowned Zen master in two lineages, traces the tradition's history in Asia, looking at some of its most important figures -- the Buddha himself, and the handful of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese masters who gave the Zen school its shape. It also outlines the challenges that occurred as Zen became integrated into western consciousness, and the state of Zen in North America today. The author includes profiles of modern Zen teachers and institutions, including D. T. Suzuki and Alan Watts, and such topics as the emergence of liberal Buddhism, and Christians, Jews, and Zen. This engaging, accessible book is aimed at anyone interested in this tradition but who may not know how to start. Most importantly, it clarifies a great and ancient tradition for the contemporary seeker.
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