New Day New Dreams

A heartwarming collection of deeply personal writings from parents of children with such disabilites as cerebral palsy, autism, and mental retardation shares how they were able to cope, survive, heal, and eventually rediscover happiness, and provides messages of hope and encouragement for parents facing the same challenges. Original. 20,000 first printing.

'I asked Jai what she has learned since my diagnosis,' Randy Pausch wrote about his wife in THE LAST LECTURE. 'Turns out, she could write a book titled Forget the Last Lecture; Here's the Real Story.' DREAM ON traces Jai's experiences since Randy's diagnosis, from the constant struggle she faced as a mother of three small children, to the burdens and dilemmas that accompany the role of caregiver: navigating the steep medical learning curve; managing finances; often neglecting one's one's needs; making gut-wrenching decisions; and dealing with emotions ranging from guilt and resentment, to our greatest human qualities of compassion and love. With concrete advice woven artfully into a personal narrative, DREAM ON will resonate and appeal not only to the legions of readers who made THE LAST LECTURE a phenomenal bestseller, but also to all those who have lost -- or are in the process of losing -- a loved one.

Katy is an emergency room nurse who grew up loved and adored, a daughter of privilege. Ben, an air ambulance pilot, had to struggle to get what he wanted from life. Both are looking for love, and they find it in each other. Their love is infused with wonder and their lives with a deep joy when they are blessed with a child. When tragedy strikes their home, they find solace in each other's arms. Their pain is intense, but the power of their love sustains them. Their love story is one that will inspire you to live joyfully, love deeply and treasure every day you live.

The Promise of a New Day offers daily reflections for simple, inspiring wisdom about creating and maintaining inner peace. Written without Twelve Step program language, these meditations are reminders for us to give our full attention to today, listen more closely, understand that pain is inevitable but suffering is optional, and that there is something to learn from each experience. The Promise of a New Day is a book filled with hope for us or someone needing a special gift.

You can live the life you love - even in the face of the most challenging circumstances. While sometimes it may appear that life throws more obstacles in your path than you can handle, you can always choose to be happy. Yes, you are that powerful.

Recharge your thoughts, your self-esteem. Think positive about your life and how to achieve in life. How can we make things work in our life and in our community and in our planet? How do we treat our children and our kids and family and our humanity in this planet? How much positive things are waiting for humans, and what can human do in life? To reprogram our brain and thoughts to do the best things in life. To know the difference between animals and humans. How can all humans succeed on this earth and make all hopes and dreams come true? Make the invisible become visible and have the outlook for our planet and how many things we have done on earth. The best hope for our humanity and for our planet that helps our humanity.

We all are Living On The Edge. Sometimes we fall off the edge, sometimes we decide to change edges. Regardless life on the edge can be exciting and fraught with many perils. Many times we stop Living On The Edge to contemplate where we have been and what lies ahead. Ken Paffraths life has experienced many ups and downs and is reflected in his poetry. Poetry which is introspective, suicidal, humourous, spiritual, environmental, thought provoking, or nonsensical. It is a chronicle of life in poetry, dreams, heartbreaks, ups and downs. In reading Living On The Edge it is hoped that you may identify in some small way with the author.

Since Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King’s “dream” was connected to Langston Hughes’s poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a completely original and compelling argument that Hughes’s influence on King’s rhetoric was, in fact, evident in more than just the one famous speech. King’s staff had been wiretapped by J. Edgar Hoover and suffered accusations of communist influence, so quoting or naming the leader of the Harlem Renaissance—who had his own reputation as a communist—would only have intensified the threats against the civil rights activist. Thus, the link was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King’s orations. In Origins of the Dream, Miller lifts that veil and shows how Hughes’s revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King’s voice. He contends that by employing Hughes’s metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet’s subversive voice. By separating Hughes’s identity from his poems, King helped the nation unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind his poetry.