Touching Grandma S Heart

When a baby is born so is a grandparent. At the age of 63, I became 'grandma' for the first time. As I think about the miracle of life, I am moved by God's awesome greatness. I am filled with joy because of the blessing that God has given me by allowing me to be here for the birth of not one but two grandchildren; to be a part of their lives is a blessing I will never ever take for granted. And if there should be more grandchildren to love and cherish in my future I will consider their lives a blessing to me as well. As grandparents we bestow upon our grandchildren strength and wisdom that time and experience has given us. We pass that wisdom, if they will allow it, on to our grandchildren and we should not take our role lightly. We are family. The chain may lengthen but it will never be broken. Along with that wisdom there will be wonderful stories...

Touching Grandma's Heart Again and Again, Connie's 2nd grandma book filled with stories from and about her grandchildren.

Grandmothers have something to give a child that is entirely different from what a parent gives. And this book of gentle, playful stories offers a rich taste of what that wonderful "something" is. Readers will find a collection of tender, touching, and true stories, poems, and reflections that celebrate a grandmother's unique influence, written by both well-known writers such as Patsy Clairmont, Emilie Barnes, and Phillip Gulley as well as ordinary people fortunate enough to have experienced firsthand the power and blessing of a grandmother's love.

Rao, a physician in the Indian Army, a branch of the British Army fighting for the Allies in World War II, left his home for the war front. On his departure, his wife Susila, with their two children returned to her maternal home in Madras to live out the years of suspense, threats of bombing and constant fear for his safety. Within six months, he became a prisoner of the Japanese at the infamous Changi Prison. What will their life be like, if he does not return? This memoir is a tribute to the nameless women who endured uncertainty and fear with unwavering love; the story of the woman behind every soldier.

Sixteen generations later, the same old winding roads and blazed trails throughout the three novels lead us all back home to nostalgic dishes and the worlds from which they came. Upon arrival at the old home place, we quickly find our favorite room: Mamas kitchen. The familiar sounds of pots and pans and aromas of old-time country cooking float in and out of our senses. Suddenly, visions of chocolate pies swirled high with meringues cooling on the kitchen window sill are as clear as yesterday. The sizzling sounds of Mama frying chicken on the old wood-stove remind us that her kitchen offered southern hospitality at its best. The trip down memory lane of days gone by rekindles the true meaning of Home Sweet Home. As we stop and reminisce, hot tears blur our vision and we ask ourselves where did all the years go?

Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be subjects in our own history, but keep reconstituting the Other as an object in their own history. Trans-generational Trauma and the Other argues that healing requires us to engage with the Other who carries a corresponding pre-history. Without this dialogue, alienated ghosts can become persecutory objects, in psyche, politics, and culture. This volume examines the violent loyalties of the past, the barriers to dialogue with our Other, and complicates the inter-subjectivity of Big History. Identifying our inherited narratives and relinquishing splitting, these authors ask how we can re-cast our Other, and move beyond dysfunctional repetitions - in our individual lives and in society. Featuring rich clinical material, Trans-generational Trauma and the Other provides an invaluable guide to expanding the application of trans-generational transmission in psychoanalysis. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trauma experts.

This is a collection of thoughts and dreams sifted through and now gathered in a book. A showing of emotions throughout the years and how God influenced my life. Realizing there is a time of beginnings and endings to our lives. Hopefully, a poem may reach into someone’s heart and bring a bit of understanding and peace.