Years Of Watermelon Ice

Years of Watermelon Ice echoes a journey that praises the Lord of all creation for His rescue, relief, and plan. As we move through this pilgrimage, His abiding Spirit, in us, issues hope and a future; despite these postmodern days of widespread unbelief, we, His people, know His return is imminent. He longs to speak to and through us, lighting the way to peace in dark and desperate times. He uses broken people who have made Him Lord; He recreates us into something beautiful-in His time and way. This collection of poems reflects the watching and waiting, the suffering and joy of our adventure in pilgrimage...and all God's people cry, "Come, Lord Jesus!"

Years of Watermelon Ice echoes a journey that praises the Lord of all creation for His rescue, relief, and plan. As we move through this pilgrimage, His abiding Spirit, in us, issues hope and a future; despite these postmodern days of widespread unbelief, we, His people, know His return is imminent. He longs to speak to and through us, lighting the way to peace in dark and desperate times. He uses broken people who have made Him Lord; He recreates us into something beautiful-in His time and way. This collection of poems reflects the watching and waiting, the suffering and joy of our adventure in pilgrimage...and all God's people cry, "Come, Lord Jesus!"

Praise for God's creation rings like timeless bells, blows like a train from yesterday's valley announcing the joy of His rescue, relief, and plan-hope and a future beyond our imagination. Simple visions of His majesty and compassion flash through the pages of Wild Horses Run-Beyond the Sugared Hills as in the following selection from the poem, "Appaloosa Sky": You have blown lavender light on the hills. The afternoon is sinking into dusk, soaking into the ground of our breath . . . The appaloosa sky dapples with a thousand small clouds. They begin to merge as they drift over the hills. Hope begins to rise within-it dapples our countenance. This collection of poems praises the Lord of all creation for speaking to and through us. He does this in spite of our sin and frailty. Consider the following excerpt from the poem, "The Invitation": Everything's in flux, and I'm fading with age as our culture draws the breath of its final images, its concluding sentences. This ending may drag on for years or decades; we cry for rescue with eyes of faith. You infuse us with a scent of home. We've welcomed everyone to join us-so many choose to decline. The pilgrimage revealed on these pages reflects the pain and suffering we all experience in this fallen world, especially in these postmodern days. God's people cry, "Come, Lord Jesus!" The following lines from the poem, "Seabird Passing" praise Him: It's You, Lord; You absorb A spout of tears as I press into the chest of Your Spirit. You touch me with a breath of Your boundless beauty. Ponder these verses from the poem, "Piano Solos": You interpret the music and dance to color us through winds by the ocean. You draw us through forests and over hills. But again, You take us back to Your lost cities, where we stumble through the brown haze; we learn to breathe through the back side of everything, including ourselves.

"God's Country," is the best way to describe Inverness, during the '60s. If was a safe place filled with wonder and natural beauty. While reading Inverness; The Barefoot Years, take a break and close your eyes. See if you can remember chasing lightning bugs at dusk or the smell after a spring rain. Can you still hear the whistle of the midnight train or remember running barefoot on the school play ground. I hope this book brings you a flood of great childhood memories. If I had one wish it would be to turn back the hands of time so our children or grandchildren could live as we did, a carefree, innocent childhood.

This book includes studies conducted on the basis of field research by academics specialised in social anthropology in various universities in Turkey. Anthropological studies on migration date back a long way. Leaving their desk in the office, anthropologists have taken to the field, placing participatory observations and in-depth interviews at the centre of their research. The story of this book emerged from the thoughts of anthropologists, who had made presentations on migration, coming together during a symposium and discussing how to write about such a topic. A qualitative research method was used in work containing examples from Ankara, Istanbul, Burdur, Van, Ardahan, Sivas and Hatay. The focal groups had been displaced and/or had witnessed war. This book is composed of eleven chapters. The majority of the studies were conducted with the participation of Syrian immigrants. The wave of compulsory emigration from Syria due to the continuing conflict in the country has affected Turkey deeply. Syrians under temporary protection have been living in almost every Turkish city since the early years of the war. The book also includes papers on groups who have come from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia to Turkey, settling in various places in the country, in addition to Syrian immigrants. Content PREFACE Meryem Bulut and Kadriye Şahin CHAPTER 1 – RETHINKING MIGRATION WITHIN AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Ceren Aksoy Sugiyama and Seher Çataloğlu CHAPTER 2 – ARTIFICIAL BORDERS AND NATIONALISM: TURKMEN MIGRATION FROM IRAQ TO ISTANBUL Seher Çataloğlu and Meryem Bulut CHAPTER 3 – GENDER PERCEPTIONS OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN SİVAS PROVINCE CENTRE AND PATRIARCHAL NEGOTIATIONS Çağdaş Demren and Ünsal Karbuz CHAPTER 4 – “THE GUEST DOESN’T LIKE ANOTHER GUEST, AND THE HOST LIKES NEITHER” : SOMALI REFUGEES FORGOTTEN IN A SATELLITE TOWN Ayşe Yıldırım CHAPTER 5 – CONTRIBUTION OF NGOs TO THE INTEGRATION OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS IN MARDİN Süleyman Şanlı CHAPTER 6 – RECONSTRUCTION OF DAILY LIFE BETWEEN TWO CULTURES: SYRIAN WOMEN LIVING IN ANTAKYA Aylin Eraslan CHAPTER 7 – AFGHANISTANI IMMIGRANTS SEEKING PEACE IN VAN Fuat Leventoğlu CHAPTER 8 – “TURKISH-GERMAN” FAMILIES: AN INSIDER VIEWPOINT ABOUT WAR, MIGRATION AND THE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY BUILDING EXPERIENCE Oya Topdemir Koçyiğit CHAPTER 9 – PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ‘WAR MIGRANTS’ FROM SYRIA IN ANTAKYA: ANXIETY, FEAR, EMPATHY Mustafa Çapar CHAPTER 10 – MIGRANT WOMEN IN VAN: HOME AND DAILY LIFE AS A REFLECTION OF BELONGING Berivan Vargün CHAPTER 11 – THE CUISINE OF UZBEKS WHO EMIGRATED FROM AFGHANISTAN TO OVAKENT (HATAY): PRESERVED, CHANGED AND REMEMBERED Kadriye Şahin

Lance Bishop was perplexed. Why Valle Verde? Other ranchers weren't having problems. Who was causing the ranch so much trouble? Rick Bishop resented his brother. Humiliated before his fellow cowhands, he retaliates and falls prey to the unscrupulous Milo Potter. Jack Reynolds was uneasy. He feared his stepson, Phillip Murchison, was too young and inexperienced to handle the type situation described in Lance Bishop's letter. Perhaps Jack himself should make the trip to Texas. Cynthia Drummond was bored and frustrated with her existence at her Baton Rouge plantation home. Then, the opportunity arises for her to take a trip that would ultimately change her life forever.