Peace Poetry & Brain Health Exercises Daily Words - PEACE OF MIND & CALM HEART

Peace and Calm in Russia's Komi, a Uralic language

7/26/2023

The Calm Inside the Peace in Komi Zyrian

In Komi-Zyrian, a language of Russia
peace is "лöньлун" [lön'lun] (lit. quiet, calm day),
where "лöнь" [lön] is quiet, calm
as in "лöнь поводдя" [lön' povoddya] (calm weather)
"лун" [lun] is day
as in "Бур лун!" [Bur lun!]
(good morning/day/afternoon!)

"чöв" [chöv] is quiet, calm, silent
as in "чöв вой" [chöv voy] (silent night)
or "чöв сёрни" [chöv sorni] (silent conversation)

Except from 25 Years of Peace with 10,000 Languages from Around the World by Kimberly Burnham https://amzn.to/3Q2W9D2

Two Different Peaces in Komo, Two African Languages

7/25/2023

Two Different Komo's

Peace in Komo is "Bɔjɛjɛ" (peace)
and ሰላማዊ" [Diga] (peace)
very different words both mean peace in Komo
but Komo is the name of two different languages

"Bɔjɛjɛ" Komo has the language code kmw
is spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa

ሰላማዊ" [Diga] Komo with a language code xom
is spoken northern Africa, Ethiopia and South Sudan

Two different languages distinguished
by a language code
both endangered languages

Except from 25 Years of Peace with 10,000 Languages from Around the World by Kimberly Burnham https://amzn.to/3Q2W9D2

Peace and Well Do in Kalam (Papua New Guinea)

7/24/2023

Peace and Well Do

In Kalam, a language of Papua New Guinea
"Ag tep g-" (say well do, lit. say properly, speak clearly)
"Ay tep g-" (put well do, lit. organise or tidy things, put in order)
"Da tag tep g-" (carrying, lit. go about well do, look after someone well)
"G tep g-" (do something well, lit. do well do)
"Md tep g-" (peace, live in peace, lit. exist well do, live well, live in peace)
"Nŋ tep g-" (know something well, lit. think well do, think something well)
"D puŋi kuskus g-" (screw something, lit. hold poke revolving do, press on something and make it revolve)

Except from 25 Years of Peace with 10,000 Languages from Around the World by Kimberly Burnham https://amzn.to/3Q2W9D2

Tough Peace in South Africa

7/23/2023

Tough Peace Like Tough Love

In Proto-Taa (nmn-003),
a precursor language of Southern Africa
Botswana, Namibia and South Africa
! and ǁ are letters for click sounds in African languages

"!àe" means to pacify
also to restrain, console, calm, and reprimand
it is tough peace where sometimes
a person needs to be reprimanded
in order to create peace and calm everyone down

"ǁò" is to act in a calm manner
perhaps as an example of how to create peace

"Tā hʔo" is to calm, console, pacify
and also to scold

"Qāõ" means gently, calmly
"Qùĩ" to be relaxed, calm, inactive
as if sometimes we need to sit back, listen and watch
before reprimanding or scolding

!Xóõ (nmn): Proto-Taa (nmn-003)—"!àe" (to restrain, console, calm, pacify, reprimand), "ǁò" (to act in a calm manner), "Tā hʔo" (to calm, console, pacify, scold), "qāõ" (gently, calmly), "qùĩ" (to be relaxed, calm, inactive)—Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. (Except from 25 Years of Peace with 10,000 Languages from Around the World by Kimberly Burnham, author of Awakenings Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind and
P as in Peace, Paix and Perdamiam: an Inner Peace Journal To Stimulate The Brain (Peace in 10,000 World Languages with Visualizations and Brain Health Exercises)

Vrede Peace and Anger

7/22/2023

In Dutch “vrede” means peace
spoken in Holland or the Netherlands

In Danish “vrede” means angry
spoken in Denmark

Maybe how much peace we have
is influence by how we resolve our anger.

Danish (dan) ▲ Dansk (dan-000), Rigsdansk, an Indo-European language—"Fred" (peace), "Ro" (peace), "Sindsro" (peace), "Sjælefred" (peace), "Friður" (peace), "Vrede" (angry)—Denmark, Greenland.
#peacein10000languages #peaceofmind

Kupia Kumi Laka (To Have One Heart) Peace in Miskito Language of Nicaragua from The Meaning of Peace in 8000 Languages

7/19/2023

Miskito: Miskito (miq), Mískito, Miskitu, Mískitu (miq-000), a vulnerable Amerind, Chibchan, Misumalpan language—"Lamni Laka" (peace), "Lamni daukaya (pacify), "Lalma tani kabuka (peaceful), "Kupia Kumi Laka" (peace, to have one heart), "kupia" (heart), "kumi" (one), "lâka" or "taka" (to double)—Central America (Nicaragua (Caribbean coast to Pearl Lagoon, communities of Kakabila and Raitipura), Honduras (Western Honduras), Mexico).

One Heart Doubled By Peace

"Kupia kaia lâka"
or "kupia kumi taka" are translated peace
in Miskito or Nicaraguan Creole

One heart is doubled
in peace
"kupia" heart
"kumi" is one
"lâka" or "taka" means to double

Stay watchful of peace
and the heart
"takaskaia" means to stay
while "kaikaia" is to watch

Except from The Meaning of Peace in 8000 Languages.

We are looking for grant money to finish this Peace Project. The goal of the book is to find and understand the word for peace in 8000 languages including the languages of North American Native Americans, Caribbean populations, Central Americans, South Americans, people of the Arctic, Europeans, Central Asians, Middle Easterners, Asians, Oceanic people, Polynesians, Melanesians, Australians, New Zealanders, people of Papua New Guinea, and Africans.

Dictionary poetry is poetry create from dictionary entries, example sentences, definitions, and meanings. The dictionary can be monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual.

Resources: Stop War, Say Peace: Pace سلام שלום Hasîtî शान्ति Barış 和平 Мир http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/

Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language, and the Mind (A Daily Brain Health Program) by Kimberly Burnham
and the Creating Calm Network Publishing Group B07KDZGSJM eBook $4.99 paperback $14.95 https://www.amazon.com/Awakenings-Dictionary-Language-Health-Program-ebook/dp/B07KDZGSJM/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=creatingcalmn-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=e146232c362c0fae93375501741f2bf3&creativeASIN=B07KDZGSJM

Most Popular Central American Languages
1. Spanish Throughout Central America 32 million speakers
2. Mayan languages Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador 4.5 million speakers
3. English Creoles Panama, Belize, Nicaragua 400,000 speakers
4. Miskito Nicaragua and Honduras 180,000 speakers

Salaamata (peace) in Afar or Qafar of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti from The Meaning of Peace in 8000 Languages

7/18/2023

"Nagaya" is peace in Afar, also known as Oromo, a language of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, East Africa, and the Horn of Africa. A common greeting is “bultiin isaanii nagaya?” (is your night peaceful?) to which the common answer is "nagaa keessa walgarra" (we see one another in peace). Think about how you greet people and how you respond to their questions about your sleep, your health, your mood, etc.

Afar: Qafár af (aar-000), Afar, Oromo, Afaraf, Danakil, Denkel, `Afar Af, Adal, Afaraf, Qafar, Qafar af, ʿAfár af, Aussa, Ba'adu, Central Afar, Northern Afar, Baadu, Adal, Affar, Affarigna; Dialects: Northern Afar, Central Afar, Aussa, Baadu (Ba`adu), a Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, Eastern, Lowland Semitic language--"Salaamata" (peace), "Nagaya" (peace), "Nagaa" (peace), "Nagaa keessa walgarra" (we will see one another in peace)—Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, East Africa, and the Horn of Africa—Djibouti (Jībūtī, جيبوتي, Djibouti), Eritrea (Iritriya, إرتريا, Erta, ኤርትራ), Ethiopia (Ityop'ia, ኢትዮጲያ, ኢትዮጵያ) (Lowlands of Ethiopia), Somalia (Soomaaliya, aş-Şūmāl, الصومال), Oromia, Kenya, East Africa, Horn of Africa. Djibouti (Jībūtī, جيبوتي, Djibouti), Eritrea (Iritriya, إرتريا, Erta, ኤርትራ), Ethiopia (Ityop'ia, ኢትዮጲያ, ኢትዮጵያ) (Lowlands of Ethiopia), Somalia (Soomaaliya, a؛-ھūmāl, الصومال), Oromia, Kenya, East Africa, Horn of Africa.

Except from The Meaning of Peace in 8000 Languages.

We are looking for grant money to finish this Peace Project. The goal of the book is to find and understand the word for peace in 8000 languages including the languages of North American Native Americans, Caribbean populations, Central Americans, South Americans, people of the Arctic, Europeans, Central Asians, Middle Easterners, Asians, Oceanic people, Polynesians, Melanesians, Australians, New Zealanders, people of Papua New Guinea, and Africans.

Dictionary poetry is poetry create from dictionary entries, example sentences, definitions, and meanings. The dictionary can be monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual.

Resources: Stop War, Say Peace: Pace سلام שלום Hasîtî शान्ति Barış 和平 Мир http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/

Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language, and the Mind (A Daily Brain Health Program) by Kimberly Burnham
and the Creating Calm Network Publishing Group B07KDZGSJM eBook $4.99 paperback $14.95 https://www.amazon.com/Awakenings-Dictionary-Language-Health-Program-ebook/dp/B07KDZGSJM/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=creatingcalmn-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=e146232c362c0fae93375501741f2bf3&creativeASIN=B07KDZGSJM

Ethiopia: Languages of Ethiopia (Amharic, Tigrigna, Orominga, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, English, over 70 others; Oromo (official working language in the State of Oromiya) 33.8%, Amharic (official national language) 29.3%, Somali (official working language of the State of Sumale) 6.2%, Tigrigna (Tigrinya) (official working language of the State of Tigray) 5.9%, Sidamo 4%, Wolaytta 2.2%, Gurage 2%, Afar (official working language of the State of Afar) 1.7%, Hadiyya 1.7%, Gamo 1.5%, Gedeo 1.3%, Opuuo 1.2%, Kafa 1.1%, other 8.1%, English (major foreign language taught in schools), Arabic (2007 est.)

Eritrea: Languages of Eritrea (Afar, Arabic, Tigre, Kunama, Tigrinya, Eritrean English (eng-027), other Cushitic languages. Eastern Cushitic Languages).

Djibouti: Languages of Djibouti (French and Arabic (both official), Somali, Afar)

July 01st, 2023

7/1/2023

Peace in Olives

"Olea europaea"
the botanical name of the olive tree
meaning "European olive"
but according to Virgil
the olive is "Placitam Pacis"
or “agreeable to peace.”

Olive tress grow very slowly
planted only in times of peace and stability
for children or the children's children
to harvest
in a hoped for future of peace
planted and harvested in peace.

Basketo Doorways to Peace in Ethiopia

5/7/2023

Doorways to Peace

In Basketo, a language of Ethiopia
"ሳሮ" [saro] is a greeting meaning
hello, how are you?, peace be with you
and "ሳሮ" [saro] is a word to describe knocking on the door

Translated into Amharic "ሳሮ" [saro]
is "ሰላምታ መስጠትና መቀበል"
hello, how are you?
peace be with you
and "ቤቶች ደጆች"
knocking on door

Another Basketo word for peace starts like equal
"ዌልፌን" (in Amharic እኩል equal)
"ዌይካ" (in Amharic ሰላም is peace or good

Yet another word for peace is a homonym for a small shield
with synonyms of happiness, peace, good and fine
"ዎይካ" (in Amharic ለገጥ የሚትያዝ የጋሻ አይነት small shield)
"ዎይካ" (in Amharic ደስታ happiness
and ሳላም፥ ደህና peace, good, fine

Excerpt from 25 Years of Peace with 10,000 Languages from Around the World by Kimberly Burnham https://amzn.to/3Q2W9D2

The Sunflower Diaries

6/30/2022

The Sunflower Diaries
Upcoming Book, Spring 2022 by Kimberly Burnham

Mary Wester lives in Wichita, Kansas and grows all kinds of sunflowers, tall and dwarf, yellow and red, and some the color of cherry chocolate. Explore Mary’s garden, a bit of her life, and why she now wants to trade sunflower seeds for medicinal plant seeds. The rest of the book engages with the people who receive her sunflowers, what they send to Mary in return and why they grow what they grow. Interspersed are recipes for teas, tinctures, herbal medicines, and growing tips, as well as stories from the point of view of Red, the sunflower who grew all the red sunflower seeds, Mary is about to send out to one man in particular and many soon to be friends all over the United States.
A free download will be available for a limited time on Amazon once it is published.

Climate Change . . . do or die Poetry Anthology from Inner Child Press

4/1/2022

Award-winning poetry from Inner Child Press

Forward by Kimberly Burnham

No one is immune to climate change. We can close our eyes and not see it. We can write poetry and not do anything about it. We can talk as if it isn’t real, but no one is immune to the effects of air pollution.
We all need clean air and food to sustain our body and our dreams. This volume of poetry is meant to inspire action and encourage all to open our eyes, to see the destruction and the solutions.
No one is immune to climate change, but it doesn’t affect everyone the same. There are fewer trees in areas of the United States where redlining or segregation took place. One low-income area of Richmond, Virginia has the highest rates of heat-related ambulance calls in the city and the lowest number of trees. Shade and the oxygen trees give off has an impact on quality of life.
Planting a tree is a radical action many of us can take. Nelson Henderson said, “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
Plastic pollution has known human health impacts, including cancer, neurological, reproductive, and developmental toxicity, and impairment of the immune system. Plastics offer benefits but they start out as fossil fuels and their production increases greenhouse gases. Look around. What can one person do to decrease the use of plastic?
Soil without organic matter is sand. Fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables cannot grow in sand. What can grow in sand needs more water than the same plants grown in soil rich in organic material. “In the last 50 to 100 years, the organic content in the soil has depleted. To replenish the soil, we either need leaves or vegetative matter, or animal waste. We thought we could do everything with the machines - they can plow, and they can do the work that animals and human beings used to do. However, organic content cannot come from the machine. If you take away organic content from soil, it becomes sand. So, right now desertification is one of the major problems,” according to Sadhguru on his solo 100-day long motorcycle ride journey to spread awareness about the “Save Soil” movement.
Each of us can compost and add organic material to the soil around us. If a hundred people take up this cause and try to reverse climate change, much can be accomplished. If seven billion of us do just a few small things, everything will change for the better.
These poems are clues to how climate change affects people around the globe: the pain and hardship it causes, the beauty that is being lost, and the reasons we should care and act.

Kimberly Burnham, Ph.D. (Integrative Medicine), author of The Red Sunflower Diaries, Why Everyone Should Garden and Share Seeds.
Spokane, Washington, USA

Climate Change . . . do or die Poems and Participants

Forward by Kimberly Burnham

Ibrahim Honjo, Do Not Write This Down

Eliza Segiet Chaos Translated by Ula de B.

Solomon C Jatta, Climate Change

Frank Verkley, Climate Change (how dark can it become?)

Sherife Allko, Destructive Smog

M A Shaheed Best Witness

Csp Shrivastava, Climate Change... It’s How n Why

Maxwanette A Poetess, Climate Changes

Ratan Ghosh, Black Hole

Anthony Arnold, Broken Earth

Debaprasanna Biswas, Rain Drops

Orbindu Ganga, SOS

Queen aka Lana, Climate Change

Tapas Dey, Worse Than Tolerable

Swayam Prashant , The Green Voice

Roula Pollard, A Tree, Always In My Memory

Abdumominov Abdulloh, Peace

Kimberly Burnham, Ukraine Everything is Climate

Rajashree Mohapatra, Bhubaneswar, Climate Change

Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo, Reverse Genesis

Hassan Hegazy Hassan, A Message From The Earth

Sweta Kumari, Restoring The Legacy of Humanity and Peace

Ashok Bhargava, A Prayer for Change

Dhama Dove, You Are My Home

Shareef Abdur-Rasheed/Zakir Flo, Climate Change

C L Battick, Vision 20/20

Ariel Noelle, Inuit Bride

The Oracle

Shahid Abbas, Protect the Earth

Alyssa Jan Dela Fuente, That I Want To Save

hülya n. yılmaz, it has become

Found Poetry from Hidden Brain Podcast Transcript

3/22/2022

Hidden Brain is one of my favorite podcast. For the April 2022 National Poetry Month I have set myself the challenge of writing one or more found poems ripped from the pages of the Hidden Brain podcast with Shankar Vedantam.

Trees and Gardening, Free EBook January 16, 2022 for Tu BiShvat

1/5/2022

Trees, Healing and You is on free ebook download on January 16, 2022.

I have another gardening book out The Dragon Garden, Feed Your Bearded Dragon from The Garden All Summer Long. If you have a pet bearded dragon, now is the time to start planning and planting your garden. https://amzn.to/3snsJ3K

My next gardening book (fiction with real recipes) is coming out in a few months. The Red Sunflower Diaries, Why Everyone Should Garden. Mary Wester lives in Wichita, Kansas and grows all kinds of sunflowers, tall and dwarf, yellow and red, and some the color of chocolate cherries. Explore Mary’s Garden, a bit of her life, and why she now wants to trade red sunflower seeds for medicinal plant seeds. Visit the people who receive her sunflower seeds, see what they send to Mary in return and why they grow what they grow. Interspersed are recipes for teas, tinctures, herbal medicines, and growing tips. Visit U.S. gardens through the eyes of Red, a beautiful red sunflower from Mary’s grandmother and a mysterious traveler.

It would be a huge favor to me if you would follow my Amazon author’s page. You will get notifications when I have a new book. I will put The Red Sunflower Diaries on free download soon after it is published (in the spring).

I also published an anthology, Trees, Healing, and You: Guided Imagery, Poems, Stories, & Other Empowering Tools (2016) by Kimberly Burnham, Céline Cloutier, Daniel Tigner, Margo Royce, Basia Alexander, Jim Conroy (Creating Calm Network Publishing). https://amzn.to/3JHe6Bx It will be on free download on January 16, 2022.

Peace in 5000 Languages

1/1/2022

This page is part of the upcoming book, The Traveler’s Brain: The Word For Peace, Paix, Paz, Damai, and Heping in 5000 Languages

To contribute to this project or provided funding please contact Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine) at NerveWhisperer@gmail.com

ǂgou (peace)—!Kung: !Kung (knw-001), !Kung (ktz-001), !O!Kung, !'O!Kung, Okung, Kung, Ekoka !Kung, Ekoka Kung, Sekele; Ju/'hoan, Ju, !Kung (knw) (ktz-003), Bushmen, !Xuun, Ukualuthu, Ukuambi, one of the larger click languages and belongs to the Kx'a language family; Kung-Tsumkwe (ktz); Kung-Gobabis, Akhoe, Oung, !Xu, Auen, Gobabis, Dialects (Dzu, 'Oasi, Nogau), ǂKxʼauǁʼein (ktz-003); !Kung: Aukwe, West !Kung; Kung-Gobabis (aue), East !Kung, Kung Gobabis; Xu, !Xu, Ekoka-!Xu, Kung-Ekoka (knw), a Northern Khoisan; !Kung: NIIc a dialect near Ukualuthu, NIII !O!Kung; Northern; Ekoka-/Xu; Ekoka-!xû; Ekoko-!Xû; !Hu; Kaukau; !Khung!Kung; !Ku; Kung-Ekoka; North Bushman; Qxû; Qxü; Xu; !Xu; !Xun; !Xung Grootfontein ! Kung (ktz-002), NII !Kũ, !Kuŋ from Grootfontein to the Okavango, NIIa Hei||kum, Heikum--"ǂgou" (to be at peace), "ǂgou:wa" (to be at peace, quiet, silent), "Sekisaha" (to make peace), "/ui" (calm), "/wi" (to be light (not heavy), easy, calm), "| kau kakho" (peace), "!kanahe" (peace), "||gan kakho" (peace), "Karikuse" (quiet), "Goo" (to be silent), "Ka kao" (to be silent), "ǂgau" (peace, silent)—Africa, South Africa (San people of the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa), Namibia (Northeastern Namibia), Angola (Southwestern Angola), and Botswana (Northwestern Botswana). [Read more about !Kung]

World Peace Energy and World Peace Dictionary

5/16/2021

Words have energy and power. Peace in English is being sent out in service of world peace and world healing.

The Dragon Garden for Bearded Dragon Owners Free Today

3/31/2021

Do You Have a Bearded Dragon?

If you have a #pet #beardeddragon, now is the time to start planting. "The Dragon Garden, Feed Your #Bearded #Dragon From The Garden All Summer Long" is on free eBook download Today Wednesday March 31. Check it out at https://amzn.to/3snsJ3K Share with anyone who has a #beardie and wants to start #gardening for food.

Jason Shulman's Beyond the Now; Essays On The Heart of Enlightenment - Author Interview

1/11/2021

Jason Shulman is a wonderful spiritual teacher and prolific writer. I caught up with him just as he was releasing his most recent book, Beyond the Now; Essays On The Heart Of Enlightenment.

Kimberly Burnham: When did you start considering the concepts in Beyond the Now; Essays On The Heart Of Enlightenment? Why is this the right time to bring this material forward in a big way?

Jason Shulman: I think there was a book some years back called “All I really needed to know I learned in kindergarten.” It turns out that the goal of the spiritual path, whether it is a path of surrender to a higher power or one of nonduality, is the integration of our personal, mortal, human side with all its flaws and limitations, with the transcendent, forever-ongoing aspect that is not personal but universal.

When those two possibilities of human potential are joined in awareness—leaving neither out—the answers to life become very simple. You might even say they are the kindergarten-level “commonsensical” things we learned as we interacted with the world as a young child. We need to re-learn those simple things which have gotten lost in many of the approaches to spiritual learning which have taken on the coloration of our acquisitive approach to living, perspectives that have gotten more and more immaterial and substituted abstract concepts for the down-to-earthy thing that enlightenment and awakening actually are. It is always the time to set the record straight.

KB: Your work has been compared to other American teachers of nonduality. In what ways is that true and where do you see the biggest differences?

Jason Shulman: One of the great differences between my approach to nonduality and other teachers is that I try not to confuse an “experience” of universal consciousness (which is always nice to have) with what enlightenment or awakening actually is. Here is an example: many teachers—without making it explicit—confuse awakening with timelessness, a sense of the eternal that removes the person from the cycle of life and death, we could even say that “saves” the person from this mortal round of being.

But nonduality contains everything, including time. This means that while our brief, mortal life, is imbued with eternity, eternity is simultaneously imbued with the mortal and time-bound. This understanding of the co-arising of both of these perspectives changes everything and brings about an awakening that is not simply a self-concerned experience but a life that focuses on the small and humble as much as the large and transcendent. The idea is not to stay forever in a single experience of some concept of unity when the “world-actual” is offered to us.

KB: What are you reading these days?

Jason Shulman: Hmm. I’m re-reading Isaac Asimov’s robot books; a book on the philosophy of Phenomenology and doing a lot of composing and songwriting as well!

KB: How has the COVID pandemic changed how you think about life and living?

Jason Shulman: I’ve thought to myself “who has ever conceived that they will live a life and then, in this modern era, die of a plague, alone in a hospital room?”

This thought breaks my heart. And yet it has happened to over 300,000 human beings. So that gives me pause. It gives me pause to think about children growing up seeing everyone in masks, missing hugs and faces, missing mingling and play. I am lucky enough to live on a few acres of land and have a life partner with whom I share deep interests and love. But what about people who are alone in an apartment in a city?

I also think about some of the good things that might come from this: less travel to work; more social interaction in family units and so on. We could say that this devastating period is also so fertile and rich that it might take years to unfold and years to fully understand. It has uncovered some of the worst in us and some of the best as well. And I think it brings a calling—maybe faintly in the distance right now—to be better people, kinder people, more in touch with this tenuous mortal coil.

KB: Wonderful. Thank you Jason Shulman.

Beyond the Now; Essays On The Heart Of Enlightenment by Jason Shulman is available in bookstores now. https://amzn.to/3oEslfp

Take Your Cookies When They're Passed by Jean Galt Coblentz

12/16/2020

Reviews:

“An inspiring history of an extraordinary woman, Jean (Galt) Coblentz shares her life’s lessons of seizing opportunities (‘taking your cookies’) for success and happiness. Her journey endows wisdom of love, laughter, friendships, family and community.”
― Dr. Joan K. Vrtis, an honored recipient of Jean’s valuable guidance and friendship

“Take Your Cookies When They’re Passed is a remarkable book by an even more amazing woman. From her early life in China to all her work at Stanford University, Jean has led an exemplary life of service and leads by example when it comes to overcoming challenges.”
―Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine).

“Jean had a sharp wit to go with her sharp mind. She loved a good book, a nice glass of wine and a good movie. But mostly, she loved people - - helping them along their paths in life. Just a brief warning: when you start this book, make yourself comfortable, because it is truly unputdownable! “
―Michael Wright, Photographer, Photo Editor

Finding Santa by Paul Burnham with Artist Jessica Carlson on Free Download Friday after Thanksgiving.

9/27/2020

Wonderful Christmas book available on free download Friday November 27 after Thanksgiving at https://amzn.to/37i2T8e

Interview with my brother Paul Burnham, author of Finding Santa.

Robbie is only five years old when Jeff decides it’s time for his son to leave Santa Claus behind. But when a near-fatal automobile accident leaves Jeff stranded and lost, He must rely on a stranger in whom he doesn’t even believe. While Jeff frantically searches for a way back to his family, this stranger invites him to discover another way home.

But now Jeff must choose between what he thought he knew and what Robbie already knows. And only one path will lead him home.

Finding Santa touches a familiar Christmas tradition, but doesn’t relegate Santa Claus to a children’s myth. This story continues through a world of magical realism and returns the reader to a real place and a real Santa Claus.

From the author, Paul Burnham: Why did I write this book? After my own son and I—and Santa Claus—delivered presents to a children’s hospital, I wondered how to explain Santa Claus to him, how to guide him through the story of Santa Claus into a real life of kindness and generosity. Finding Santa is a tale of discovery—a transformation of story to real life, of belief to practice.

Click below on Nov 27, 2020
(Friday after Thanksgiving) for a free download.

The Calmness and Peace Needed to Rest and Eat

9/25/2020

Reindeer Peace

"Raeffie" is peace in Åarjelsaemien gïele
Southern Saami spoken in Sweden and Norway
while "seadtoe" is calmness
the kind of profound calmness
when reindeer can graze in peace

Raeffie Daily Peace Challenge Day 1363

Picture Daily Peace Challenge Raeffie (peace) in Sami: Åarjelsaemien gïele (sma-000), Åarjelsaemiengïele, Southern Sami, Saami méridional, Saamí meridional--