A View Through My Eyes

Through photo’s, short poems and short personal stories the Author, Martin Groenewoud (Martin), expresses his admiration and his love for this great country called Canada. His personal feelings and thoughts written down reflect his emotional bond with the grandeur nature, beautiful wildlife and friendliness of Canada. If you have ever travelled Canada or have visited the Sunshine Coast you will surely relate to these poems and short stories, and the photo’s might bring back many good memories. This book is based on photos taken by the Author, Martin Groenewoud, or by family members while travelling across Canada’s Provinces and Territories. And primarily based on photos taken by the Author, during the family’s Summer Vacations in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia.

Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and as a top prospect in the NFL. Now, in Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, he shares the behind-the-scenes details of his life, on and off the football field. Tim writes about his life as he chooses to live it, revealing how his Christian faith, his family values, and his relentless will to succeed have molded him into the person and the athlete he is today.

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

It’s not what you look at, it’s what you see! Take a journey through New York City as it might be seen by a child through a camera lens. Shapes, colors, patterns, and people are everywhere, and things look different depending on how you look at them — and who is doing the looking. In this playful ode to photography and point of view, a poetic story posits how one young girl might capture moments of insight, community, and art in her beloved hometown, New York City. With the popularity of camera phones, photo-journaling, and photo-posting sites, this fictional exploration of photography as one young girl’s form of self-expression is guaranteed to appeal to budding photographers.

Photographer, educator, and advocate of innovative ways to approach sharing knowledge, Dr. John Bannister has committed himself to develop learning experiences through his work as a trainer, instructional designer, professor and creative. Holding degrees in business and education, Dr. Bannister also owns and operates JBPhotography, in which he captures people, places and things.This book curates a project in which Dr. Bannister spent at least one night in each of the 50 states (and the District of Columbia). Dr. Bannister shares one image from each of the locations visited and his insights on this four-year journey.

As I travel across north America, operating a tractor and trailer, hauling consumer goods, I come across many events of the human spirit and so I write about what I see, hoping that it may, make you cry, make you laugh, make you think about life and how precious it is.

Much of the author's work as a reporter and news director courses through his writing in the immediacy of a story to be quickly told. "September Magic," the fourth book by the author, presents a timeless value in a personal revelation to the reader. Scarcely forestalling its continuity but a moment, in a driven need to move on. From line one, against a rearing sense of conflict, a most instant and chaste love affair between a married man and a schoolgirl sweetheart struggle in the face of proprietary censure and a backdrop of deception. Out of the force of a driven separation, new memories out of the ( oedipus complex ) are drawn to an out of town client in the person of a beautiful girl of blue-blood status. Still, immutably drawn to Dorie Ames, his forbidden love, corporate attorney Ross Franklin , finds the tempting romance but further complication to the already difficult and dark sense of hope for the lovers. Passing "time," to which we are unalterably tied, provides more than our visible horizons; for tomorrow's dreams are yet in the making. And as September Magic slyly unfolds her confusing kaleidoscope of love's promise, to the hoarding maggots of despair, time, in her deliberate pace of wavering doubt, releases the remnants of crushed hope in the conquest of unwavering belief.