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Babies and Butterflies is the result of wanting to share the precious photos of the babies and children who have passed through my life, to proclaim that butterflies represent hope and new life, to pass on the inspiration that has been helpful to me through many situations in life. Along with that, may you be encouraged to follow your joy.

Embracing the Law of Attraction was written with the hope that the reader will be able to relate to the stories and scriptures. The book is designed to help the readers identify areas of their lives that need changing. By using the workbook, affirmations, scriptures, and the journal, the diligent student will begin to experience small changes, or perhaps large changes. By documenting their growth over time, the student will really begin to see how the Law of Attraction works and see their lives improve. The people who can help along the way, the opportunities that will be offered because of the change in thinking patterns, will impress them. 

Change and Light will become a regular part of life. Life is supposed to be FUN! Have fun with your life! Start laughing at all the little gifts that are sent your way.

This is a journey through doubt, fear, pain, and joy. It's a story of healing self in mind, body, and spirit through choices made in a lifetime; a story belonging to anyone; a story without gender, race, or wealth.

It's my choice! I think of the many times I've told myself that and the years it took before I believed it. They're reminders that I own my decisions regardless what the situation is or who tells me what to do. Today, self-reminders are less frequent because I feel in control of my whole life, not just part of it. Why? Because I have a free will, God's gift to each of us. It's a love-gift given freely, unconditionally. It is without strings, enabling me to choose my journey, my path.

I believe that it is by loving ourselves we can make progress and become better. I believe that our purpose on earth is to become better human beings by recognizing that special light within us-God. To you, reader, God may be the Universal Consciousness, Allah, or the Almighty. Whichever it is, remember it is your choice!

In Frederic Voss’s wonderful memoir, My House Was Not a Home, the author describes life on the farm with an abusive grandmother. His priority was finding other places to be than at “home,” a place never referred to as such in the book. Voss’s book is, however, not about abuse, but rather the friends that helped him avoid it. There were many characters, good and not so good. In chapter 4, we meet Reg Keetering, the king of the tall-tale spinners, as he conjures “The Man Who Invented Dinosaurs.” In chapter 5, Darrell (pronounced Duryl) Campbell regales the boys in the barbershop with the origins of the “Greatest Camel and Goat Herd Dog Y’all Ever Saw.” Readers meet the author’s best friend, Jimmy, Tehama County’s answer to Will Rogers. They’ll begin to hate the school bully, Stanley Bater, who picks on only kids smaller than him. Once referred to as “Master Bater,” he couldn’t figure out why they were all laughing. Among the author’s many friends were abandoned dogs that came to the house from the highway. They were taken in and fed and loved. Many were reclaimed by the highway or wandered off or killed in mysterious ways. There is room for their stories too.

This is a metaphysical novel set in modern times. Mathew Slains, former deputy sheriff, moves to the mid-Atlantic coast to escape his anger over his late wife's early death. The book creates dialogues regarding his answers about life and her death, including past lives' reviews, meeting a new group of friends who share his past lives, guidance from his late wife and a guardian angel group, animal totems, encounters with biblical figures, and an invitation to attend a mystery school based in ancient wisdom. Follow Mathew as he discovers an ancient book full of wisdom but written in a foreign language not previously known.

Penny Higgin's The Jiger and the Tiraffe is a whimsical poem about the fanciful origins of tigers and giraffes coupled with a strong message for children: everyone is a special child of God. 

An upbeat account of a mother's journey parenting twins with different disabilities. It is a tale of advocacy outlining the strategies used when working with doctors, teachers and neighbors.

It describes how a mother explored options available to her family, looking for the right "fit" and how as a family they worked on the life skills that helped her son and daughter become independent. The importance of communities and the role they play in supporting an individual is explained. The balance between safety and individual autonomy is explored. The lessons shared are instructive to parents of children with and without disabilities.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if cows weighed eight pounds? Just think of the fun to be had!

About the Author

Dr. Barbara ten Brink bought a twenty-acre ranch-ito in Gruene, Texas (population 20) where she builds fences, hoes cactus, and runs cows. "Every weekend, I feel connected to my grandmother, also a farmer. Granny's reputation, her larger than life persona, her involvement with the entire community, her enthusiasm for work, her philanthropy are models to which I aspire. Working on my acreage, I imagine Clemmie working on her cotton farm. Harvesting mustang grapes, I visualize Clemmie canning preserves, making jellies, putting up stores of black-eyed peas, okra, tomatoes, and other produce she grew on her farm and shared with all of Brownfield, Texas. Every time I work at my ranch-ito, I channel Clemmie. I talk to her, 'Dear Granny, Have I done enough? Have I worked hard enough? Have I accomplished one-tenth of your humane accomplishments?' I aspire to."

Embark on a journey of four thrill-seeking guys who meet one winter night. The adventurous guys become friends. The exhibitionists form a pack to go on the rides of their lives. They go on night adventures to live out their wildest dreams. They pursue and try to steal a precious jade before it’s auctioned at a museum, as their ultimate prize. While the guys are being exhilarated, the streets of Miami heat up. Will they continue to have their fun and get away with the law or be suppressed? In the world that they live in, among them, and other parts of it, other people exude all kinds of crazy and fiery actions, and their stories too. Get fired up! Caution: feel the heat!

Endless Horizons: Journeys within a Journey by author Brent Asay is a poetry universe of various themes, dimensions, and flows. Unique, imaginative, and thought-provoking, it much reflects his pilgrimage through life and that of others, drawing on his observations of life, people and places and on his own life experiences.

Asay's poetry gives rich meaning to the common, everyday experience, drawing out the extraordinary from the ordinary. It is compelling, refreshing, and personal yet at same time, universal. The hardships, sorrows, and struggles of life contrast with light, triumph, beauty, joy, love, and celebrations of life.

Endless Horizons offers a worthwhile, meaningful, and enjoyable read.