Book Talks: The Podcast

Long ago, in a far-off land, the people had temples to many gods. One was to a fertility god called Farago. A High Priest and his priesthood ran it. They were all donated to the priesthood when they were babies. The story tells of a disaster that destroyed the temple and completely changed the lives of the priests who survived.

When I was a child, I amused myself by telling myself stories. When I left school I was employed as a telephonist until I married and moved away. After our children grew up I became a supermarket cashier. Some years later, after I retired, I rediscovered the pleasure of telling stories, but this time, with modern technology, I was able to write them down.

From early childhood, we are encouraged to avoid showing anger - a natural emotion. So we learn to store it inside. The psychological space available for holding anger inside is limited. That is why so many of us go through life feeling as if we are just about ten seconds from going ballistic. We don't have the skills to control our own rage or to handle the hostility of others effectively. This book provides the reader with strategies and tools for managing anger.

The author was one of those people in Melbourne who knew about 9/11 before it happened. The terrorist squad of the police force harassed her in the late 1990s when the government began writing up its intended terrorist laws. The poor woman was nearly shot dead as a female terrorist just after the Bali bombing. A United Nations meeting convened on the other side of the brick wall where she parked her truck. "Matriarch and World   War III; Internal State Terrorism in Australia" was therefore compulsory.

Just who masterminded 9/11 doesn't really matter anymore. The 21st Century invasions of Islamic countries and the suicide bombings and carnage in the world demand an explanation. In the 1970's the   United Nations told the world to reduce population growth. Islam and the   Catholic Church refused. The problem is that Islamic countries can only export their overpopulation in an attempt to reduce the humanitarian crises that arise from too many people demanding the necessities of life. Jihad for women in Islam means excess children and refugee status. When invaded, the mujahedeen volunteer to fight to the death; the others flee as refugees to consolidate their numbers elsewhere-the traditional strategy of military Islam.

Representative democracy has weakness-the numbers win the vote. The long-term, cold war military strategies of Islam, therefore, go beyond parliamentary consideration. The hullabaloo about the humanitarian crisis in the world and the demands of Islamic refugees overshadow the targeting of the unwanted in Australia. The naive and the uninformed don't know. Secrecy Provisions prevail.

World War III is a collection of civil wars all around the world -and that includes Coronavirus Warfare!

PIECE BY PIECE is one woman's version of the "old redemption story". How a loving God called and pursued her. How the people He both allowed and sent into her life were used for His purposes. How   He continued to protect and love her even when she rejected Him. And how the   Word of God broke all the barriers she had set up and she was able to hear and experience the amazing salvation story....the unfathomable love of God the Father who created her; salvation by grace through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; of her ongoing sanctification through the work of the Holy Spirit; of the transformation of her life and mind through the washing of the water of the Word; and of the gifts of repentance and forgiveness that enable her to live a life of holiness,   clothed in the righteousness of Jesus. 

This is Deborah's testimony of the faithfulness of God through her pain, hurt, anger, and repeated rejections.   She is a beloved child of God who has surrendered her life to be a worshiper,   worker, and witness in the Kingdom of God. Deborah White resides in   McDonough, Georgia with her dog, Molly. She has four children, one being in heaven, and three grandchildren. She happily attends church with her twin sister in McDonough, Georgia, where acceptance and love are freely given.   

Attending a women's Bible Study is one of her favorite places to learn more about God's grace and love. She is currently fulfilling a long-time passion:   taking sign language classes. She embraces the privilege of working with people who suffer from mental illnesses. She daily enjoys taking new steps on her journey of learning to rest in the arms of her Abba Father, God.

" Poetry is like mathematics. Both force us to recognize the relationship between two concepts coming from disparate levels of abstraction.

Einstein hinted that we cannot fix a plumbing problem with a historian no matter how polite he is.

Nor can we solve a pandemic with bleach!

You won’t need a math dictionary to read mine and you don’t need to read the pages in order. Many pages have lots of room for you to react. Bring your pen. . .

Simply open the book at random, take two readings a day and call me in the morning."

She has published one textbook on levels of abstraction, two books of poetry, and five novels, "For the Sake of All Others," "A Tough Journey," "Gambling for Good Mail," "Hurricane Love" and "The Underbelly," subtitled "Dr. Jacquelyn and Mrs. Hyde." Online she is known as "The Whole-mind Writer" for her series of essays on ways to tap the power of the subconscious mind and for her Astrological, Philosophical Cooking Blog.

Gizzie has just been adopted but soon thereafter longs for someone of his own kind. Gizzie B. and LiliMae G.: A Special Love Story is the first of a series of stories about the struggles of fitting in and belonging.

Episode 24.

“Melting Emotions” was his first book published in Kenya in 1994. Due to the circumstances then, he made up his mind that he should republish the original collection once again. It is his ambition to make the book available in as many formats as possible. His hope is to build a series of books.

The poems contained in this book are meant to promote love and concern for one another. As gregarious beings, it is necessary for us to interact through poems, music, sports, as well as share knowledge and other social activities.

This is the second interview with Mr. Dave Heeren,an award-winning journalist. A sportswriter who has seen literally NBA games first hand for its past 74 seasons. He is revered by his colleagues as the "OG" of basketball analytics. he is the creator of TENDEX, basketball mathematical-statistical formula in order to determine the playing efficiency of basketball players. This creation landed him a job as a  Statistician for his favorite basketball team, The New York Knicks.

This Book is a lesson plan for how to overcome the odds of extreme adversity. In this case, it is a story of overcoming medical adversity, but the messaging applies to any adversity. The author’s story, or my story is about a teenager diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes who was told he would be lucky to live past age 50 and would have a life filled with kidney and heart disease, amputations and blindness. As my life unfolded I eventually had to deal with the debilitating effects of the disease but had placed my hopes on medical technology which ultimately saved my life with organ transplantation. In 2005 I received a new heart, kidney and pancreas which was a surgery never performed before. Recently I celebrated my 67th birthday – so much for the forecast. This book chronicles my lessons learned with extreme positivity and the perspective I gained along the way. The ultimate message is to never give up and be hopeful that miracles can happen.

The Bible According to Eve: The Women of the Torah is a book about the women in the Hebrew Bible and told from their perspective. It is part of a four-book series which covers the entire Hebrew Bible or “Old Testament.” It attempts to breath new life into ancient stories, poetry and laws. Why? Because each generation discovers the Bible anew, and hopefully sees in it Universal Truths which can be applied to their own time. Therefore if ancient Jews read the Mishna and Gemera with the Bible, and English Protestants read Milton to understand Puritan theology, today’s readers may get something out of the reinterpretation of the Bible in The Bible According to Eve.

Hadassah Alderson has a BA in history at Friends University (Wichita, Kansas).  Hadassah spent one year at Claremont Graduate University in California studying philosophy.  Austin Macauley published her book of her poems, The Bible According to Eve, about the women of the Hebrew Bible. It is now out on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com. It has also been advertised in Hadassah Magazine.