![]() ![]() My father wiped his palm across his forehead and damned their toughness. They had grown into the unseen wall and it was difficult to pry them loose. Nevertheless, the stalky shoots had managed to squeeze through knife cracks in the decorative brown shingles covering the cement blocks. They were just seedlings with one or two rigid, healthy leaves. It’s a Sunday morning in the summer of 1988, and he and his father are outside trying to dig out the sprouting seedlings. I was a bit dismayed by the blunt metaphor we find in the book’s very first sentence: “Small trees had attacked my parents’ house at the foundation.” Our narrator is Joe Coutts, a thirteen-year-old boy of the Ojibwe tribe in North Dakota. Full of potential, I found The Round House to be a bit of a mess. Thrilled she won, yes, because she’s an exceptional American author. Honestly, though, now that I’ve read it, I find myself questioning the judges. ![]() The Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012) HarperCollins (2012) 323 ppĪ recent convert to Louise Erdrich, I was excited when The Round House won the National Book Award last month, the first major award Erdrich has taken home since she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her debut novel, Love Medicine, in 1984. ![]()
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![]() It’s not something that happens over night or something we can necessarily prove to others. Within this principle, adrienne maree brown describes how ‘trust is a seed that grows with attention and space’. (IF YOU TRUST THE PEOPLE, THEY BECOME TRUSTWORTHY). My intention here is to reference and break down each of the Emergent Strategy Principles as a way to help us move towards more concrete practices and skills. If you’d like to read more about how I found Emergent Strategy and began applying it to my life, you can start with this blog post: What is Emergent Strategy?įor this post, I will be combining two of the Emergent Strategy principles focused on trust. I developed this blog series to serve as a preview into how I am engaging in my Emergent Strategist practice and to give folks ways they can apply the Emergent Strategy principles into their work, relationships and life. I help marginalized leaders cultivate liberatory power so they can show up powerfully and fully to make deeper impact. ![]() Welcome back to the Create More Possibilities blog! My name’s Petra and I’m a Liberatory Leadership Coach, Facilitator, Radical Social Worker and Emergent Strategist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All the tensions of the last two years are going to turn into a fireball, and Spider and his team have nowhere left to run!Ĭollects Transmetropolitan #40-60, completing the series. And it's all Spider Jerusalem's fault! The government troops enforcing martial law across a spreading area of the City just put a lit match to the social tinderbox. Then Spider Jerusalem starts having blackouts and episodes of mental confusion that are not related to his usual diet of narcotics and whiskey! The story continues as the White House has utilized its emergency powers still in place over the City and introduced martial law! Federal controls are quietly being placed over the media controls they usually roll over for. Spider Jerusalem gets a whole new take on the world, courtesy of the untreated mental patients spat back onto the street by a collapsing healthcare system. The critically acclaimed graphic novel series Transmetropolitan shoves readers' outdated brains into a MRI scanner and rewires their flabby cortexes into screaming processors of truth! Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's masterwork of gonzo science fiction and political soothsaying in the Transmetropolitan series comes to its conclusion with the last majestic Absolute Edition in Absolute Transmetropolitan Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the war, Winn became a Populist enclave. At a convention called in 1861 to decide whether Louisiana should join the Confederacy, the delegate from Whin voted against secession: “Who wants to fight to keep the Negroes for the wealthy planters?” he asked. The major crop in Winn has always been dissent. This is Winn Parish, where, as one historian has described it, “a man would skin a flea for the hide and tallow.” The people there have said that they make a living by taking in each other’s washing. (Huey recalled that a Methodist preacher moved to Winn and would have starved to death had it not been for the charity of the Long family.) It is a parish of small farms and cutover timber lands. Replied Huey, “I’m a hillbilly-like yourself.”) It is Baptist country. (Former President Calvin Coolidge, visiting Louisiana in 1930, asked Huey Long what part of the state he came from. In Louisiana, counties are called parishes, and Winn, in the north-central part of the state, was destined by incorporation to be the poorest of the poor: when the land was divided, Winn got what nobody else wanted. Long brought his family from Mississippi in 1859. To the state of Louisiana and the parish of Winn, John M. ![]() ![]() Jackson and The New Yorker were both surprised by the initial negative response from readers subscriptions were canceled and much hate mail was sent throughout the summer of its first publication, with Jackson receiving at least 10 letters per day. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though what actually happens to the selected person is not revealed until the end. The story describes a fictional small American community which observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", in which a member of the community is selected by chance and stoned to death to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. " The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. ![]() ![]() ![]() For other uses, see Lottery (disambiguation). ![]() ![]() ![]() Roanhorse, the first Indigenous American to win a Nebula and a finalist for a Hugo, has given us a sharp, wonderfully dreamy, action-driven novel. Propelled by the Coyote god Ma’ii, Maggie confronts her past, her love, and her own power in a war where the stakes are higher than she ever imagined. As her quest grows, Maggie and Kai battle immortals and mortals alike, and Maggie ends up wondering whom to trust. ![]() ![]() In walks the troublingly sexy Kai, whom she reluctantly takes along to hunt monsters and who has medicine big enough to perhaps heal the Earth from the Big Water. Maggie has been left to hunt monsters alone, hoping for the return of the god she loved like a father and wanted as a lover. ![]() Little except Maggie, whose grandmother was murdered in front of her, who was abandoned by the god Neizghání, who’d saved her. A wall has been built to keep the Diné safe from what remains, but little can keep them safe from the monsters that have woken up inside those borders and the witches who work to destroy what life is left. In Roanhorse’s hard-hitting debut novel, most of the world has perished, and Dinétah (the Navajo Nation) has risen. She’s going to need them on a journey culminating in the kind of battle fantasy readers will relish. After the Big Water, Maggie Hoskie’s monster-slaying clan powers have woken up. ![]() ![]() As for right now? I'm on to my next Christopher Buehlman book! I will be keeping an eye out for more of his work in the future. ![]() The narrator, Mark Bramhall, was absolutely phenomenal-I loved his Southern accents and voicing-they brought the story alive for me. There's nothing new or extraordinary here, but a well told and atmospheric story is always welcome on my Kindle, (and now on my phone!), and I enjoyed this immensely. What follows is a well told, atmospheric and creepy story that went in a totally different direction than what I expected. In the letter he received about the inheritance he was warned not to actually live in the house, but of course, he does so anyway-along with his fiance Eudora. Set mostly in GA in the early 1930's, a damaged WWI veteran moves down from Chicago to a house he has recently inherited. I downloaded Those Across the River knowing nothing about it, and I think that was the best way to go in to this story. I saw this book available and remembered that my friend Tressa had just recommended me a book by this author a few days previous. ![]() I recently got a new phone that came with some fancy earbuds, so I decided to head over to Overdrive and check out an audio from my library, so I could try them out. In fact, I downloaded another of his books just now. ![]() ![]() Those Across the River is my first Buehlman, but will not be my last. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harvey while he is doing this, and he helps him with the tent. Harvey reads about the tents built by a tribe in Mali and decides to replicate them. ![]() He decides to keep the Pennsylvania keystone charm, with Susie’s initials, and throws the rest of the charm bracelet in a hole that will become a man-made lake. He stops his car and wanders a construction lot in the dark. Harvey realizes he has Susie’s charm bracelet in his pocket. The sinkhole is on the Flanagan’s property, so he gives them money to sink the safe. Harvey puts the bag with Susie’s remains in a metal safe so that it will weigh it down. Her father tells Buckley that the sinkhole is the earth’s mouth and that it will swallow the refrigerator. Susie remembers going to the sinkhole with her father and Buckley to put an old refrigerator in it. ![]() Harvey takes Susie’s remains to a sinkhole. Harvey, about her death, and about the other girls he killed, to the desire dogs have to go after a smell even when it is a bad smell. Susie compares her desire to know more about Mr. ![]() In the bag with Susie are the razors, shaving cream, knife and a book of sonnets. Harvey washes up and is very calm, thinking about Susie’s scream and her death moan. He carries her back to the house and leaves her in the garage, where her blood leaves a stain on the floor. Harvey puts Susie’s body parts in a sack and closes up the hole. When Susie first goes missing, her parents go door to door and make phone calls looking for her. ![]() ![]() Anunnaki Alien War Of Egypt? Home Afrikan History Ancient Civilizations Afrikan Futurism Mythology Culture About More Stories Modern History The Conquest Of Native American Nations Home Afrikan History Ancient Civilizations Afrikan Civilization Eastern Civilization Western Civilization Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Ancient Americas Afrikan Futurism使用Reverso Context: It's great and surely you can get your very best result with it. The Anunnaki appear in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish. Though sometimes synonymous with the term "Annunaki," in one myth the Igigi were the younger gods who were servants of the Annunaki, until they rebelled and were replaced by the creation of humans. Igigi was a term used to refer to the gods of heaven in Sumerian mythology. The Anunnaki are members of a royal family that ruled over Sumer in the third millennium B.C. ![]() The super god, to rephrase it in plain English. In ancient Mesopotamian theology, God Anu (aka An) is the divine personification of the sky, ultimate god, ruler of the heavens, and ancestor of all deities.□ Thanks to all users for this wonderful comm'one! All the charts available on the site can be freely downloaded and printed. offers a biometer generator and a space to share dowsing charts. ![]() added Genies and Jinnis to CHART 1, and split into two charts for clarity. The term "Alien" is derogative, hence "Cosmic beings". ![]() ![]() Scott Trench-real estate investor, co-host of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, and CEO of BiggerPockets-demonstrates how to accumulate a lifetime of wealth over a short period of time. 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