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This book is a person's journey to discern what “Christmas” is about. Every year at Christmas time the groundskeeper E.C. feels the pressure of Christmas. And each year he does what he can to step back and see what Christmas is really all about and what it means in his life. Each year he writes a story about it. And these are a collection of his stories over these past years. Also, E.C. works in the field of tennis. He helps take care of tennis courts so people can play tennis and learn tennis. In the parks, he helps teach tennis and plays tennis.

Sammy Spinner, an eager fishing bait, gets plopped into a tackle box alongside Bucky Bucktail, Francis Frog, and Suki Suick with one goal, to catch big fish. He sees shores lined with pine trees and large loons swimming on the water. He hears giggling eagles sitting in woody nests and beavers’ thick tails building dams. Sammy believes he is well-prepared to get a fish into the red boat. However, he quickly learns catching fish that live in Northwoods Lakes could take thousands of casts.

Then came a time to build my shattered life. I had my legal work, of course, but that was not enough. I rafted for a week down Colorado River rapids. The scenes and feelings evoked there gave birth to river poems presented here. At that time, too, I wanted back the home life I’d abandoned recklessly. The love poems written at that time reflect the hopes and fears and turmoil driving me. I, also in those years, wrote legal articles that most properly have since been long forgotten and ignored.

Jaxon is a boy with a big imagination. This story is about the encounters Jaxon experiences as he comes in contact with the dinosaur, the pelican, and other creatures that God created during his weeklong journey. Let’s see what Jaxon is up to next, with all his exciting adventures.

This audiobook is a collection of the old groundskeeper E. C.’s observations, reflections, prayers, and songs as he goes about his life going to church, to work, to teaching tennis, to playing tennis, and to visiting friends. He is a secretary recording the ideas that come through his life. For E. C. the ideas become a light in the darkness. Still he knows when he puts the ideas into practice, there will be more illumination.

The journey continues in E.C.’s life…the old groundskeeper’s life. These are ideas, prayers, reflections, and observations as he goes about his life going to church, to work, to teaching tennis, to playing tennis, and to visiting his friends. He is a secretary writing down the ideas, prayers, and reflections that come through his life.

Very few adults, let alone children, have experienced their inner voice. The inner voice is a big part of our decision-making. Should we choose this, or should we choose that? Is this right or is this wrong? Do we wish to be good or have fun that we know will get us into trouble later? Somehow, we already know which is good and which is bad. If we learn to listen to our inner voice, it will lead us to do the right thing.

Reclaimed is a quest of personal reconciliation of a double life, a blend of dichotomous mishaps and redemptive insights. Resist the folly of conformity, empower yourself, dare to be you! Reclaimed offers hope that life is manageable and that happiness is a choice.

In the natural world, the process of appropriating a place for ones own use involves planning, organization, and strategies for implementation. Getting to know the people, language, and culture is a valuable asset for effective communication. Possibly the greatest need in succeeding is the provision of a leader to act or speak on behalf of the new government. A person who is knowledgeable of the government and loyal to its king would be an ideal candidate. The key here seems to be an acknowledgment of and commitment to the process.

In this comical business novel, The Non-Product Consolidation Operation is a department of Generic Equivalent Corporation (GenEQ), a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer. Myrtle, Rachel, Naomi, Ralph, and Lawrence, the manager, package and ship to the company's overseas plants anything other than sellable products.

How do you keep a positive attitude? How do you maintain a strong faith in God, work hard, and consistently work at forming the right daily habits that lead to success and happiness in life? What stories do you tell yourself about how you manage your emotions, and do you know why you are where you are on your life’s journey? Spirituality and Scientific Strategies for Managing Your Emotions helps you answer these questions.

This is a celebration of falling in love and partaking of the wine of the beloved. It is both a meditation on the Song of Solomon, the Song of Songs, and a celebration - a rumination on the love of the ancient Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi for the divine in ways that bridge divides between faiths as the realization of the desire of nations.

Richard Azael Martinez Jr. has seen his share of challenges throughout his lifetime. In his first compilation of poems, he shares insight into his journey through life as he works to conquer a variety of difficulties and emotions while facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Within his diverse poems, Martinez reflects on relatable topics such as love, nature, fears, the thinking process, forgotten celebrities, the choices we make, jealousy, life’s consequences, and purgatory.

This book is a continuation of EC's journey in life. It is about the observations and reflections made as EC goes about his life to church, to work, to teach, to play, and to visit friends. In particular, this book explores playing, learning, and the teaching of the game of tennis. EC believes each person has a tennis stroke inside him or her. He keeps working and playing to find ways that we can set the stage so the good shots in us can come out how to get the shots in us out. And at the end of the day, may we remember our good shots.

This book is a journal of the ideas, reflections, prayers, and wishes by E. C. the old groundskeeper as he makes his rounds in life going to church, going to work, teaching tennis, playing tennis, and visiting his friends. He is a secretary recording the ideas that come through his life. Interwoven in all this is where E. C. continues to explore how tennis is played and how people learn to play tennis. A wise man named Eknath Easwarn once said that life was a game of hide and seek. God hides and we seek. And God leaves us little footprints...little glimpses of his beauty.

E.C. helps take care of the tennis courts at an old country club. He also plays tennis and teaches tennis in the parks. These are his reflections on his work, his life, and the game of tennis. And it includes ideas from talking with a wise old tennis player.

The journey continues in ECs life. These are ideas and reflections that come through ECs life as he goes about his rounds going to church, going to work, visiting friends, teaching tennis, and playing tennis. He is a secretary that notes his reflections as he goes about his life. He keeps exploring ways to play and to learn the game of tennis. And he is interested in helping people find their swing, their serve, and their song in life. He is also interested in these things for himself. Oh, in this process, he hopes to hear the birds sing.

This audiobook encourages us to stop and see the beauty right before us, the beauty in other people, in ourselves, in nature, and in God. It is a journal of E. C.s thoughts, reflections, prayers, and desires as he goes about his life, going to church, visiting friends, working, teaching tennis, and playing tennis.

A journal of my life this year as I go about my life to church, to work, to teaching, to play, and to visiting friends. The first chapter is a story of the spring. The second chapter is like a sketchbook or a glimpse into a journal. There are reflections and prayers and wishes. The ideas from church are ideas I heard from the priests. It is really paraphrased versus a direct quotation. And some of the biblical quotes I used are used in the poem I wrote. The second chapter is about the summer of 2018 and about some of the things I went through.

The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his fathers wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage.