Grief Is An Origami Swan

Author : Blanchard,Michèle Saint-Michel
Publisher : Michelle Sander Media
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999902016

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Grief is an Origami Swan by Blanchard,Michèle Saint-Michel Pdf

Begin to process your grief and remember those you've lost using the art form of origami. Learn to fold an origami swan using square, origami paper, and befriend the often confusing and sometimes unsettling feelings experienced during bereavement and after loss. With each origami swan you fold, think of the one you lost and honor their memory. Learn that grief has no timeline and carries no expiration. Your feelings, as confusing as they may be, are a valid and necessary part of the healing journey. Begin the journey today with this beautifully illustrated book. Using black-and-white nature illustrations paired with pressed florals and grasses, Michèle Saint-Michel takes you by the hand and leads you down the path toward healing. Step-by-step instructions assist even those unfamiliar with origami to fold a paper swan. Each swan folded is a chance to spend a little time with the one you've lost. Using Japanese design aesthetics like Ma and wabi-sabi, author and artist Michèle Saint-Michel builds a robust world where escape is possible-a world of magical, flightless birds, where grief and loss can begin to be embodied and safely explored.

Author : Blanchard,Michèle Saint-Michel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0999902008

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Situational Leadership by Blanchard,Michèle Saint-Michel Pdf

Begin to process grief and remember those lost using the art form of origami. Learn to fold an origami swan using square, origami paper, and befriend the often confusing and sometimes unsettling feelings experienced during bereavement and after loss. With each origami swan that takes shape, meditate, grieve, and honor their memory. Learn that grief has no timeline and carries no expiration. Feelings, as confusing as they may be, are a valid and necessary part of the healing journey. Begin that journey today with this beautifully illustrated book. Using black-and-white nature illustrations paired with pressed florals and grasses, artist Michèle Saint-Michel takes you by the hand and leads you down the path toward healing. Step-by-step instructions assist even those unfamiliar with origami to fold a paper swan. Using poetic language and Japanese design aesthetics, Saint-Michel builds a robust world where escape is possible: a world of magical, flightless birds, where grief and loss can be embodied and explored. Give this book as a thoughtful, quiet gift to someone you care about in mourning or to yourself.

Author : Masahiro Sasaki,Sue DiCicco
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781462921690

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The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki by Masahiro Sasaki,Sue DiCicco Pdf

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner** **Middle School Book of the Year-- Northern Lights Book Awards** **Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired a worldwide call for peace. In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time--how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Ten years later, just as life was starting to feel almost normal again, this athletic and enthusiastic girl was fighting a war of a different kind. One of many children affected by the bomb, she had contracted leukemia. Patient and determined, Sadako set herself the task of folding 1000 paper cranes in the hope that her wish to be made well again would be granted. Illustrations and personal family photos give a glimpse into Sadako's life and the horrors of war. Proceeds from this book are shared equally between The Sadako Legacy NPO and The Peace Crane Project.

Author : William Bortz
Publisher : Central Avenue Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771682206

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The Grief We're Given by William Bortz Pdf

Readers call William's poetry "breath-taking", "refreshing" and "relatable to anyone". The Grief We’re Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature, eternity, and hope as a thinning, but exuberant, door. How are we to learn to grieve when it feels unrelenting? How are we to adore and memorialize small moments of appreciation? How are we to shape our grief into something worth celebrating, and begin to understand the grief we give?

Author : Eleanor Coerr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142401137

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eleanor Coerr Pdf

“An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.” —Booklist, starred review The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan. "[The] story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako's death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for 'peace in the world.” —The Horn Book "The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching." —BCCB

Author : Robert J. Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486258379

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The Complete Book of Origami by Robert J. Lang Pdf

Create nearly 40 striking paper figures with clear, step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams. Features simple to advanced objects: cube, parrot, rabbit, seagull, cuckoo clock, rocket, mouse, elephant, violinist, Viking ship, and many more.

Author : Richard Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131812880

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Swagger & Remorse by Richard Fox Pdf

Poetry. Richard Fox weaves lyrical magic in his SWAGGER & REMORSE, a book-length series of poems at once intimate ('I'd rather be a river than anything else') and richly metaphysical ('Trees look inside the houses, see all the wood & cannot look away'). They help us to consider grief -'I'll always / think of you as I pretend to eat the living air or pull / an origami swan out of nowhere / or out of someone's ear' - with humor and mystery and an elegant humanity. I recommend these distilled and powerful poems, with their birds and trees and houses and fires and rivers and hands and salt and blood to anyone who would like a fresh pair of eyes - 'Once a year the flowers on this very porch take wing / as if they just remembered something' - and a whole new landscape to marvel over -Maureen Seaton.

Author : Michèle Saint-Michel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999902075

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Saint Agatha Mother Redeemer by Michèle Saint-Michel Pdf

Told through layered imagery, poetry, and illustrated self-portraiture, Saint Agatha Mother Redeemer takes you on a journey on the unsteady waters of healing after traumatic events and living with PTSD.

Author : Ariel Gore
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780989360418

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The End of Eve by Ariel Gore Pdf

At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything she’s always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But life’s happy endings don’t always last. If it’s not one thing, after all, it’s your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And she’s here to announce that she’s dying. “Pitifully, Ariel,” she sighs. “You’re all I have.” Ariel doesn’t want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. It’s the right thing to do, isn’t it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? “Don’t worry,” Eve says. “If I’m ever a burden, I’ll just blow my brains out.” Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, Ariel’s own ten-year relationship begins to unravel. Darkly humorous and intimately human, The End of Eve redefines the meaning of family and everything we’ve ever been taught to call “love.”

Author : Ann Y. K Choi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501156120

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Kay's Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y. K Choi Pdf

Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.

Author : Lisel Mueller
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807141194

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Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller Pdf

Author : Dyane Fancey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1938144813

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The Origami Swan by Dyane Fancey Pdf

The Origami Swan is a posthumous collection of mostly unpublished poetry by the prolific and beloved poet Dyane Fancey, collected, transcribed, and laboriously edited by the late poet's husband, Reed Hessler, to preserve all their wit, erudition, sexuality, passionate sense of time and place, and consummate craft. Re-reading Dyane's poetry since her death has brought a whole new appreciation of her achievement; these poems are wild, brilliantly crafted, and hot hot hot!

Author : Adrienne Kisner
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250146038

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The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner Pdf

A teen copes with her grandmother's coma by becoming obsessed with a mystery bird that she cannot identify in Adrienne Kisner's sharp and poignant YA novel, The Confusion of Laurel Graham. Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. Winning runs in her blood—her beloved activist and nature-loving grandmother placed when she was a girl. One day Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair hear a mysterious call that even Gran can’t identify. The pair vow to find out what it is together, but soon after, Gran is involved in a horrible car accident. Now that Gran is in a coma, so much of Laurel's world is rocked. Her gran's house is being sold, developers are coming in to destroy the nature sanctuary she treasures, and she still can't seem to identify the mystery bird. Laurel’s confusion isn’t just a group of warblers—it’s about what means the most to her, and what she’s willing to do to fight to save it. Maybe--just maybe-if she can find the mystery bird, it will save her gran, the conservatory land, and herself.

Author : Val Emmich
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316317016

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The Reminders by Val Emmich Pdf

From the author of Dear Evan Hansen, The Reminders is perfect for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan's The Engagement or Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, and follows what happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember. Grief-stricken over his partner Sydney's death, Gavin sets fire to every reminder in the couple's home before fleeing Los Angeles for New Jersey, where he hopes to find peace with the family of an old friend. Instead, he finds Joan. Joan, the family's ten-year-old daughter, was born Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM: the rare ability to recall every day of her life in cinematic detail. Joan has never met Gavin until now, but she did know his partner, and waiting inside her uncanny mind are startlingly vivid memories to prove it. Gavin strikes a deal with Joan: in return for sharing her memories of Sydney, Gavin will help her win a songwriting contest she's convinced will make her unforgettable. The unlikely duo set off on their quest until Joan reveals unexpected details about Sydney's final months, forcing Gavin to question not only the purity of his past with Sydney but the course of his own immediate future. Told in the alternating voices of these two irresistible characters, The Reminders is a hilarious and tender exploration of loss, memory, friendship, and renewal.

Author : Karyl McBride
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781416551324

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Will I Ever be Good Enough? by Karyl McBride Pdf

A resource for daughters of mothers with narcissistic personality disorder explains how to manage feelings of inadequacy and abandonment in the face of inappropriate maternal expectations and conditional love, in a step-by-step guide that shares recommendations for creating a personalized program for self-protection and recovery. 50,000 first printing.