Field Days is an outstanding anthology of poetry drawn from the pages of Common Ground. These paeans of lyrical celebration are arranged alphabetically and represent the combined works of more than ninety poets, both ancient and modern. From John Keats, William Blake, and Walt Whitman to Sylvia Plath, Robert Graves, and Seamus Heaney, here are poems that inspire, celebrate and document the complex and timeless aspects of human experience amidst pastoral landscapes and agricultural settings. Brockhampton: The land was too wet for plowing; yet it is done./Even the stones of the ridges lie sulky and brown./The roads are a slide of mud. The wet sky/Is blank as the chink of the hawk's perfect eye./A blink before the dark comes down/Drops the peregrine sun./The land glows like an awkward face./Broken posts, by which sheep graze/Shine pale as growing wood./Above, the last crow's wings/Cannot frighten from my blood/The stubborn light of things. Alison Brackenbury.

Well, I'm biased (distantly related), but I really enjoyed the read - Captain Bogardus knew more about hitting with a shotgun than just about anyone else of his time, and he shared quite a bit of it... The book was written at the turn of the century, and reading it is like venturing back in a time machine to the day when a man who was skillful with a firearm was looked upon as something other than evil...

I fell in love with this book's well-written and passionate articles a year ago and decided to teach it in my second-semester English composition class. My students, working-class youngsters from New York State, found it their favorite: it taught them about style in writing without being too abstract or introspective. They had energetic discussions about the issues Hochschild raises and the people he portrays: "Fishhooks and Chickens" led to some strong opinions on U.S. foreign policy, "Summer of Violence" prompted them to discuss their own civil-rights heroes, and the piece on ex-racist Floyd Cochran elicited opinions on reform and forgiveness. And their own writing showed that they learned a great deal from Hochschild's stylistic grace. This book will be a great document of its times for many, many years.

Great Book! Well written and very understandable! I was able to get up to speed on WORD in no time! I learned more spending two days with my nose in this book than I did taking a class on word! It was money well spent! I know more about word now than my secretary does ... she hates that!

St. Symeon the New Theologian is often overlooked in the Western Church, but thankfully this is changing. This selection of his homilies concerning the fall of Adam and the nature of the Fall-Redemption relationship is very good; I recommend it highly. Father Seraphim's translation reads very well and allows one to focus upon the message of the text rather than on deciphering the writing. All in all, this is a wonderful book for anyone interested in Christian thought, be they Orthodox or no.

The author describes how he met a healer-sage in a himalayan retreat and learnt about the five lessons about life. ( The author claims it as a true story). He is a westerner settled in India. He goes for a retreat to mountains with his wife and kid. There he comes across a healer-sage who always goes with a dog. In the first meeting the healer calls him by name and welcomes him. The healer-sage goes from village to village to treat people. In a series of meetings he give the five lessons. The lessons are not new for any one exposed to spiritual/self help books. Basically one should meditate on one's situation, find proper value to guide life and appreciate interdependence of all forms of life. But the story telling is very good. For instance, one night the author goes out and meets the sage at a place with a warming fire. He stays whole night with him. While he returns in the morning, he is worried about that his wife would have been anxious looking for him. He finds her sleeping. When he asked her whether she worried about him, she answers that the old man came and gave a message that he would be away whole night. The description of the feature of old man fits with the features of healer-sage. One of the main episodes deals with how the healer-sage prepares a family for death of the family head.
The author ends the book with some prophesies of the sage. The section could have been avoided.
The lessons are extremely meaningful.

Penned by an eminent historian, this book is superb! Very striking is Brucker's unique narrative style. He makes the readers think as if the events happened only yesterday. I strongly recommend his other works as well: You will feel enlightened. No other historian can capture the cultural richness of Florence with such delightful charm. I guarantee you'll fall in love with the city, her citizens, and this historian, Gene Adam Brucker.

This book is enjoyed the best when sat down with two bottles of Buckfast Tonic Wine.

Flick through chapter one after 1/4 of a bottle. Bounce the book off the wall after a 1/2 a bottle. Wreck the house after a full bottle.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh..... the wine, the wine.......

Dont you just love it. Respect to Brother Adam

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