December 6th, 2009 -- Posted in Cool Items |
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July 9th, 2009 -- Posted in Cool Items |
Nancy O’Dell, host of Access Hollywood, offers straightforward mom-to-mom tips and kernels of wisdom from the minute you decide to have a baby until you bring your little one home.When Nancy O’Dell was pregnant she found herself saying often,Why didn’t y’all tell me that was gonna happen! Nancy’s friends didn’t think towarn herabout half of the things that happened to them during pregnancy — like how those red dots mightappearon her chest in the third trimester or how her calves (not just her feet)would swell too much for those cute new boots.Now that her own little bundle has arrived, Nancy shares candid observations and motherly advice that will help other expectant mothersprepare forall those spontaneous itches, emotions, skin changes, and crampsthat can bequite terrifying anddownright embarrassing if you don’t knowahead of time that they might occur.She even shares her mother’s delicious spice cake recipe with prunes, for those constipated days. (Hey, even in Hollywo (more…)
July 5th, 2009 -- Posted in Cool Items |
“In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky–best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz–brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound, and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Hafiz-these and other spiritual writers considered to be “conduits of the divine” make up this rich and luminous collection of “love poems from God.”
About the Author
Daniel Ladinsky is editor and translator of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz and several other poetry collections. For six years he studied with Meher Baba’s spiritua (more…)
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