Blooming Into Beautiful

Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt like you couldn't recognize the person staring back at you? Wondered if you had just lost everything that made you, you? Yeah? Well you aren't alone. The book you just picked up is a story. My story. A story showing that brokenness and darkness can be used in moving forward toward your beauty. It is a redemption story. A story that confirms God's grace and redeeming love when it felt like there was nothing I had to offer. You may have picked up this book for the bright color or interesting title, but if you are holding this book in your hands, let this be a reminder: you are beautiful, you are enough, and it is never too late for God to plant you and help you bloom. Be brave, take a step forward, move past the doubts you carry, and let my words and God's grace move you outside of the wild darkness you are in. Trust me, you won't regret it. God is waiting. Are you willing to step forward?

Either by choice or by circumstance, we all encounter times of starting over. Seasons of hardships, abundance, seeking, and struggle all have a purpose because growth demands change. Dare to Bloom urges us to be both vulnerable and resilient in new seasons of life as we boldly position ourselves for what God has for us next. Serial entrepreneur and author, Zim Flores (neè Ugochukwu), reveals the challenges she's faced and how even her failures have helped shape her sense of purpose. Her parents had big plans for her life. The daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Zim Flores was uprooted from her community as a young girl, marking the beginning of her quest for true identity. Though she experienced unprecedented worldly success as a teenager and young adult, Zim declares that even when we feel pressured by the world around us, our true identity is never at risk. In Dare to Bloom, Zim offers practical and hard-won truths about: How to reclaim your true identity How to surrender your desired outcomes to God How to move forward after broken friendships How to find comfort during your darkest hours How to navigate new beginnings with hope for whatever is next How to joyfully participate in your own story--even when you don't know what the future holds Dare to Bloom is a powerful gift for readers in times of transition or struggle who need a reminder that their true identity never changes. It empowers those who feel stuck in their current circumstances to follow God obediently into the unknown, finding joy in each new beginning. Inside you'll find: Breathtaking photography from Zim's travels Thoughtful questions for reflection at the end of each chapter Zimisms--wisdom-filled phrases from the author When everything changes around us, it can be easy to think that we're only as good as our last success. Though our identities are challenged day by day, Dare to Bloom encourages us to reclaim our identity in God, who is unchanging through it all.

Meaghan, a strong independent woman works for the Enlighten Weight Loss Company as their spokesperson promoting the program as she travels across Canada and enjoying strengthening relationships with those around her. Will her ex-husband Marty influence her to return to him - little Cohen wants a daddy so badly? Luc and Lisa try to work out their issues surrounding their unborn child, will this bring them back together? Sara gets to fulfill her desires by becoming caretaker for the children in her life and having a closer relationship with her son. Will Anna overcome her battle with breast cancer? Three distinctive characters each with voices and challenges. Eugenie Davidsen author of Blooming in Full Color continues to provide entertainment and encouragement to the readers with characters that are full of life and spice. This book is a journey full of surprises laughter and inspiration....

“Get ready for a beauty overload. It’s food for the soul, it’s a book of dreams and details, of flowers so perfect you want to hug them to you.” —Carla Coulson, author of Paris Tango Paris—City of Love, City of Light, City of Flowers. From elegant floral boutiques to lively flower markets to glorious blooming trees and expansive public gardens, flowers are the essential ingredient to the lush sensory bouquet that is Parisian life. With beautiful photography, Paris in Bloom transports readers on a stunning floral tour of the city, and provides recommendations to the best flower markets and a detailed guide to spring blooms. Timeless in content, Paris in Bloom is a book for Paris lovers to savor again and again, one to keep on the nightstand to conjure fond memories of their first visit and inspire dreams of the next. “Brilliantly captures the splendor of French fleurs with lush photographs and elegant prose . . . A masterpiece!” —Laura Dowling, former chief floral designer at the White House “I don’t know how Georgianna does it. She manages to make Paris, already the most beautiful city in the world, appear even more charming, more elegant and more beautiful than it already is . . . Paris in Bloom is filled with a veritable carpet of pinks and whites, pastels and green portraits that make me let out an audible sigh of joy. This book can re-inspire you to believe that yes, life really is quite beautiful.” —Doni Belau, author of Paris Cocktails “Destined to become a classic of its type, Paris in Bloom is Georgianna Lane’s love letter to Paris and to flowers.”—Gray Levett, editor of Nikon Owner magazine

Blooming Flower Rising takes you into the not-so-far future where earthquakes and deadly sulfur gases have irrefutably damaged the Earth. The year is 2102, the skies are dark, and rain constantly falls on Earth. The Earth has not seen sunlight for many years, and only humans remain on Earth. Blooming Flower Rising is a young teenage girl living in the province of Hawaii with her Mama, Papa, and little brother. Her dream is to feel sunlight on her face and to grow flowers, which have long been extinct. Her Mama travel all over the world, selling gas masks, and her Papa stays home to raise her and her brother. She yearns to fit in to society, but a classmate named Morning Glory bullies her relentlessly because Blooming is the only person in the world who has blond hair in a world of brown-haired people. The day of the annual dance at the learning center, scientists predict the sun will come out for a short time. During the dance, an announcement made by the principal of the learning center broadcasts that the sun is coming out, and all the students run outside to see the sun for the first time, and maybe the only time in their lives, but where is Blooming?

Blooming Self is about discovering a way to your real home, the poems scribbled here leaves a mark on your heart while manifesting the better version of you. No matter where you belong or how your started or where you are standing now, poetry is a open sesame to paradise of emotions, feelings, pleasures, shades of misery, happiness and everything that is living in your soul. We strive to be called best and still regret the rest, no human in this world made it easy to reach the last breath, we nearly die many times in this travel yet don’t give up on dreams just to make certain we are meant for something. ‘let us all bloom while exposing our auras to the galaxies and beyond so whenever we’re gone we’ll still be alive on these papers and make the world feel the world’. i came for the moon and compromised with a star, even when battles happened within me i shut my all to at least hold what i have forever. but later, i realised the beauty is in my eyes and it can change the colour or shine as i want but my heart loved just the way, it is just the way, it reflects pureness and unpolluted freshness towards my life. star is prettier than the moon for now and for all time maybe, to only my eyes and that’s still a blessing.

When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years. Tarring roofs and splitting logs into her eighties, Jackie presided over the legacy of Bernard Maybeck and his clan on Berkeley’s legendary Nut Hill. The friendship between the two women led to a best-selling book—Gifts of Age, a treasury of stories about successful aging. Blooming in Winter is an intimate portrait of Jackie that gives us a paradigm for living exuberantly until the very end.