Sam Harrell, a common farm hand, is intrigued by dynamic Victoria, the plantation owner's niece. She seems to be equally intrigued with the hard-working, virile red-head who appears able to do anything he sets his mind to. Is there any chance that the two of them can conquer the challenge of exploring their feelings amidst the propriety of social mores and Southern traditions? "Tears of Sadness, Tears of Joy" documents one man's life. An ordinary and common account placed around the turn of the 20th century, this touching story reveals the extraordinary events that test faith and character. Based on the life of an ancestor, the author adds the dialog and details that make the characters come alive through every aspect of life from birth.to death.

Sam Harrell, a common farm hand, is intrigued by dynamic Victoria, the plantation owner's niece. She seems to be equally intrigued with the hard-working, virile red-head who appears able to do anything he sets his mind to. Is there any chance that the two of them can conquer the challenge of exploring their feelings amidst the propriety of social mores and Southern traditions? Tears of Sadness, Tears of Joy documents one man's life. An ordinary and common account placed around the turn of the 20th century, this touching story reveals the extraordinary events that test faith and character. Based on the life of an ancestor, the author adds the dialog and details that make the characters come alive through every aspect of life from birth to death.

This book presents a biblical and practical look at Christians and their emotions, building off of the concept that most contemporary Christians have misconceptions about why we have emotions and how we should handle them. Trusting God doesn’t mean being consistently tranquil or subdued. Truth is, such a view makes life flat and two dimensional. We often forget that emotions are a gift; to fear them or stow them away would be to deny a huge part of what makes us human. This book explores the significance of the gift and the benefits of living a robust life of thought, action, and feeling. Illuminating the emotional life of Christ and his followers, As Dr. Gerald Peterman asks: If I’m forgiven, why do I feel guilt and shame? What about anger? What if I’m angry with God? What is the place of sadness in the Christian life? Is love only an action? Emotions don’t just happen to us like the virus or the flu, they are inherently part of us. Readers will find that the discussion extends beyond “good” and “bad”, as many emotions are neutral and it is up to them to figure out how to glorify God with them. Extended chapters on love and anger are included.

A rabbi, meditation teacher, and scholar of religion, the author found himself returning to some of the core teachings of contemplative Judaism and Theravadan Buddhism after his mother passed away following a battle with cancer. The result is this collection of eighty meditations on spirituality, poetry, alchemy, and loss.--Adapted from publisher description.

“When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs, you might think you’re looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you’re looking at her tears. . . . [There’s] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher’s images are the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a moment of intense feeling—and then vanish.” —NPR “[A] delicate, intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion.” —Boston Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper’s, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.

This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.