From Heart To Hand

Heart surgeon Miller presents his personal reflections on the nature of life, addressing the subjects of sex, self-interest, God, Schopenhauer, music, compassion, life as a heart surgeon, and the finality of death.

Coming across letters while out pickin is always a personal experience for me. I love the look of aged paper, the hand-writing style, and effort it took to write and send. After reading From Heart to Hand youll want to get out the pen and pad and send a letter from your neighborhood post office. Mike Wolfe creator and star of American Pickers, author, Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk Into Treasure I stood beside my friend and mentor Dr. Wayne Dyer on stages across the country as he said the words that now echo through my days: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. From Heart to Handdelivers this, one of our most needed and too often unsaid messages: gratitude. Alex Woodard, critically-acclaimed musician, producer, and author ofFor the Sender:Love Letters from Vietnam,For the Sender:Love Is (Not a Feeling) andFor the Sender:Four Letters. Twelve Songs. One Story. Here is a book filled with the life songs of a full heart, personally scripted with passion and deeper meaning. It is challenging to expose ones inner workings in a way that reveals pure love, and Kristin distributes her letters with great care and flourish, each brimming with absolute appreciation. This book makes me want to send mail to my own web of supporting casts, in turn making the cathartic and cleansing diary that Kristin brings to us. Gary Gerson author of Im Light: A Drivers Search for Meaning on the Mean Streets Uber Detroit, The Worst Season: Triumph and Treason at a Midwestern Prep School and Scoring Points: Love and Football in the Age of AIDS.

Courtney Carver shows us the power of simplicity to improve our health, build more meaningful relationships, and relieve stress in our professional and personal lives. We are often on a quest for more—we give in to pressure every day to work more, own more, and do more. For Carver, this constant striving had to come to a stop when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Stress was like gasoline on the fire of symptoms, and it became clear that she needed to root out the physical and psychological clutter that were the source of her debt and discontent. In this book, she shows us how to pursue practical minimalism so we can create more with less—more space, more time, and even more love. Carver invites us to look at the big picture, discover what's most important to us, and reclaim lightness and ease by getting rid of all the excess things.

From a world-renowned restaurant and catering company, this lengthy collection of menus and recipes can help you breeze through any occasion you can imagine, from Family Reunions to Sunday Southern Suppers to Holiday Parties.

Memorial Book for Elaine Williams Dec 2005.

Traveling evangelist John Brown believed that conventional colleges had become elitist and morally suspect, so he founded a small utopian college in 1919 to better combine evangelical Christianity and higher education. Historian Rick Ostrander places John Brown University in the long tradition of Christian education, but he also shows that evangelicalism had largely separated from mainstream higher education by the twentieth century. This engaging and objective history explores how John Brown University has adapted to modern American culture while maintaining its evangelical character. Brown set out to educate the poor, rural children of the Ozarks who had no other opportunity for schooling. He wanted to instill in them not only religious zeal but also his conception of what constituted significant work, namely manual labor. His concern with practical work is evident today in programs for broadcasting, engineering, teacher education, and business. His sons made academic excellence an institutional priority and gradually transformed the school into an accredited, respected liberal arts college. Head, Heart, and Hand deftly connects the story of John Brown University to the larger currents of American education and religion.

After the wedding of her cousin Naomi, knitter Anna, a widow, finds herself missing love and the closeness of a husband. She feels a special connection with her grandmother as they both struggle to go on with life. Is Anna on the verge of finding happiness when she realizes John Esh is interested in her? Love begins to warm Anna’s heart, but will she be so afraid of losing someone that she gives up the second chance that God has provided?