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Whist reading I wished I had Joe to help me, yet I also realise I did, all my friends around me are just a equivalent to Joe, they supported me and still are supporting me through my spiritual journey.
I found this book also reminded me of how far I have grown. It's a great read, and a great way to look at yourself and where you are in life and find what is important to you! I would recommend it to anyone.
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These books (God on a Harley and Heaven in High Gear) are not heavy duty reading but there's a message given that applies to all human's who need to have faith in themselves. The message that He does hear and He does help. I think the book is a worthwhile read. It's inspiring and hopeful.
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Joan Brady writes the story with such feeling and heart about her grandfather that it touched me as well. Jonathan Carrick's story is unusual because he was a white slave, which made it more interesting for me to read because you don't hear of cases such as these. The story about Jonathan's life made a serious impact on her family through out the generations and it made me realize how important your families history is. I think Joan Brady did a good job making Jonathan's history one everyone will remember.
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George Ballanchine (sp?) controlled his own company, and indirectly other ballet companies by setting up impossible physical standards. Ballanchine liked dancers to be skeletally thin--so Brady and other dancers performed physical feats that would stagger a professional football player while at the same time being grossly malnourished. Ballanchine and other directors treated his dancers as machines, not human beings. Dancers were to "dance through" injuries, sometimes permanently crippling themselves.
The psychological torture was almost as bad and almost a parody of a patriarchal system. Mr. B wrote the gospel and all were to listen and not question the Holy Writ. And, naturally the patriarch manipulated the women comparing one to another, manipulating jealousy among the dancers and playing favorits.
Dancers for the New York City Ballet, living in an expesnsive city were paid pittances so that the Ballet could pay the superstars huge salaries and buy elaborate costumes.
Another reviewer castigated Joan Brady for her ego. In contrast I applaud her for her common sense in walking away from this insanity, struggling years later to learn how to dance again, and then realizing that she could walk away from madness again.
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Unfortunately, it sounds like Joan Brady's book actually contributes to the guilt that a childfree woman has to suffer from the fears of biological and social pressures constantly inclined on her rather than reassuring her about her very personal life choice. In fact, two of quotes from the book alone are quite cloyingly sentimental about such poor, needy little kiddies (but they are already SPOILED ROTTEN in this country!) and thus screaming from child-hunger. Ms. Brady, I'm very sorry to hear that you didn't get to fillful your REAL desire in the very first place, but it doesn't mean that a woman is made to be a human receptacle merely waiting to be filled sopping full of unconditional love and breast milk.
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