![]() ![]() They fell continuously, day and night, days passing into months, into years, into centuries. Never have there been such rains since that time. With great poetic beauty she begins by sharing how ‘the young planet Earth acquired an ocean’: : “As soon as the earth’s crust cooled enough, the rains began to fall. ![]() ![]() In the first section, mother sea, Carson takes on the tremendous task of outlining for the reader the shadowy ‘beginnings of that great mother of life, the sea’. The Sea Around Us is divided into three sections: mother sea the restless sea and finally, man and the sea about him. Together they came to be known as the sea trilogy and explore the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us was written in 1951 and won Carson a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. ![]()
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![]() IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION Tying it all together in her signature singular voice – funny, frank, and warm- YOKE is a unique blend of memoir, philosophy, and self-help. And she takes a hard look at the limitations and hypocrisies she has come to see in yoga culture-the consumerism, the cultural appropriation, the racism. She writes generously and openly about her search for authenticity, including her experience with imposter syndrome and self-hate. Jessamyn explores the larger themes of intersectionality and self-acceptance that inevitably arise in any yoga practice. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn calls the yoga of the everyday-a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. ![]() In YOKE, Jessamyn takes readers on an autobiographical journey to self-acceptance. She will be in conversation with Adriene Mishler for this special event. Tickets for this event are $5 (plus a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite HERE or by clicking the button below. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jessamyn Stanley will speak about her new book, Yoke, on Thursday, July 15th at 5:00pm MT on Zoom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These six stories include: Rumpole and the Younger Generation, Rumpole and the Alternative Society, Rumpole and the Honourable Member, Rumpole and the Married Lady, Rumpole and the Learned Friends, and Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade. In this first title of the popular series featuring Rumpole, all of the major characters who occupy the Rumpole stories make their introductions: the sneaky, slightly effeminate Erskine Brown, the bumbling Guthrie Featherstone and various and sundry other lawyers and clerks whose lives weave in and out of these stories. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed. Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret swilling, poetry spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. ![]() These six short stories introduce all the lovable or not so lovable characters from the delightful Rumpole series. ![]() |