Welcome to the world beyond all imagination and meet a little boy by the name of Henri Jorge. Although, Henri has a heart ailment that keeps him from being able to play outside like other children his age, he is a most contented little fellow. This truly puzzles most people he meets. When a friend of the family, Madeline Rose, comes for a month's visit to work on a children's book, she is delighted by Henri Jorge and all his imaginings. What a vivid imagination he has! He can sit for hours on end in his own little world, or that is what it seems to be from someone on the outside looking in. However, Mrs. Rose soon discovers that Henri's adventures are not just mere dreams and make believe. Come and join Henri Jorge on his first adventure to this land beyond all imagination, a land where Henri is no longer a sick child, but has rosy red cheeks and can run and play. Share in the excitement as Henri tries to rescue a lavender princess, escapes the clutches of the Keeper of the Keys, and comes face to face with Hayden the Horrible, all the while learning valuable lessons in honesty and forgiveness.

This is the true story of magic and altering time and people who died and beings who introduced themselves as faeries... and this is a story of pottery. It's about smashed fingers, smashed dreams, smashed faeries and the value of throwing up your arms and saying "whatever." It's about impossible things being possible and Rolling Stones playing on unplugged radios. It's about the tragic loss of loved ones and the heart-wrenching grief; and the magic of faerie-like beings showing up in my clay, on my pages, and in my home - which they did very much to my dismay, at least at first. And now a mystery; these same faeries insist on blowing themselves up! This is the story that blurs your boundaries between reality and fantasy and leaves you wishing you could find your way into my world, albeit without the tragedies. As you can imagine, this has not been a simple story to write. Hell, if it were fantasy it would have been easy... but this is my life.

His own ancestry and life very nearly the stuff of novels, it is no wonder Russian writer, philosopher, musical scholar, and politician Vladimir Odoyevsky had left behind an endlessly varied, fascinating, and captivating body of work. Imaginings of Years Past gives readers a taste of the strange and wonderful literary legacy left behind by this strange and wonderful man.

How is it possible to imagine what is unknown and therefore unimaginable? How can the unimaginable be represented? On what materials do such representations rely? These questions lie at the heart of this book. Copernican theory redefined the role and importance of the imagination even as it implied the moment of its crisis. Based on this claim, Ladina Bezzola Lambert analyzes seventeenth-century astronomical texts – particularly descriptions of the moon and treatises written in support of the theory of the plurality of worlds – to show how early modern astronomers questioned the role of the imagination as a tool to visualize the unknown, but also how, pressed by the need to support their theories with convincing descriptions of other potential worlds, they sought to overcome the limitations of the imagination with a sophisticated rhetoric and techniques more commonly associated with poetic writing. The limitations of the imagination are at once a problem that all of the texts discussed struggle with and their recurrent theme. In the first and last chapter, the focus shifts to a more explicitly literary context: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and the work of Italo Calvino. The change of focus from science to literature and from the narratives of the past to contemporary ones serves to emphasize that the issues relating to the imagination, its limitations and creative means, are basically the same both in science and literature and that they are still relevant today.

This book offers you the opportunity to deepen your intimacy with the Lord by guiding you into scripture-focused prayer and inviting you to orient your life around the rich rhythms of the church calendar. Written by a variety of authors who find joy in the power of biblically-centered prayer, each daily reflection is an invitation to walk more fully in the new resurrection life of Christ, in this “eighth day” of new creation. Find new rest in the life and love of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as On the Eighth Day leads you into a deeper, daily practice of prayer.

LEARN TO MANIFEST YOUR HEART’S DESIRES Growing Big Dreams is a passionate yet practical call to step through the gates of dreams and imagination to weather tough times, embark on travel adventures without leaving home, and grow a vision of a life so rich and strong it wants to take root in the world. Vitally relevant today more than ever, dreams are a tool available to all. Robert Moss is a cartographer of inner space, equally at home in Jung’s psychology and shamanic journeying. The compelling stories, playful activities, and wild games he provides are designed to lead you to manifest a life of creative joy and abundance. You’ll learn to connect with your inner imagineer and become scriptwriter, director, and star of your own life movies, choosing your preferred genre and stepping into a bigger and braver story. Great artists, mystics, and shamans know that there are places of the imagination that are entirely real. Moss shows you how to get there.