Zen for the Rest of UsEightfold: Zen Poetry for Blindly Clasping Beings is a collection of sixty poems that will meet you where you are—muddy, submerged, gasping—and remind you: this is where the lotus grows. Shaped by the author’s ongoing dialogue with secular Buddhist thought, these verses offer empathy for the very real struggle of quieting the mind, illuminate the tension between spiritual aspiration and lived reality, and reflect on B...

Zen for the Rest of Us Eightfold: Zen Poetry for Blindly Clasping Beings is a collection of sixty poemsthat will meet you where you are—muddy, submerged, gasping—and remind you: this is where the lotus grows. Shaped by the author’s ongoing dialogue with secular Buddhist thought, these verses offer empathy for the very real struggle of quieting the mind, illuminate the tension between spiritual aspiration and lived reality, and reflect on Buddhist teachings, practices, and precepts—all from...

Weaving together his own spiritual journey, stories from his experience coaching others, and down-to-earth principles and practices, management consultant and Christian life coach Jeff Spadafora helps readers find the joy in a life that is more vibrant and real than any they have experienced before.An increasing number of American Christians are frustrated. Even as they read their Bibles, listen to sermons, and hang out with other Christians, they become painfully aware that some...

Weaving together his own spiritual journey, stories from his experience coaching others, and down-to-earth principles and practices, management consultant and Christian life coach Jeff Spadafora helps readers find the joy in a life that is more vibrant and real than any they have experienced before.An increasing number of American Christians are frustrated. Even as they read their Bibles, listen to sermons, and hang out with other Christians, they become painfully aware that some...

Grief in Pieces is a raw, funny, and unexpectedly uplifting collection of stories about losing people, pets, dreams, and the lives we thought we were going to have.Because grief is messy. It is heartbreaking, ridiculous, unfair, and sometimes downright rude! These stories will make you laugh, make you cry, and remind you that falling apart is sometimes just another way of putting yourself back together.Come for the grief. Stay for the laughs.

This book provides simple introduction to quantitative finance for students and junior quants who want to approach the typical industry problems with practical but rigorous ambition. It shows a simple link between theoretical technicalities and practical solutions. Mathematical aspects are discussed from a practitioner perspective, with a deep focus on practical implications, favoring the intuition and the imagination. In addition, the new post-crisis paradigms, like multi-curves, x-value ...

The Land Under: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees is a charming middle-grade adventure story about a boys journey to an underground kingdom of talking animals. Unhappy because of his parents financial difficulties, thirteen-year-old Frank finds himself summoned to the Land Under, a place that parallels our world but is only for animals. Fallen trees linked to forests aboveground are damming up the mighty waterfall, Naveah, which powers the rivers that keep the three kingdoms of the under...

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John J. Spadafora is at the peak of his financial career when his wife – distraught that he’s forgotten the meaning of life – plans a vacation that changes their lifestyle and drives her husband stir crazy.The city boy ends up buying a 213-acre dairy farm along with five cows that he spends three months trying to track down after they escape.His new life becomes a nightmare, and his huge barn catches fire. He gets lost on his own property – and the fact that his neighbors h...

This is an anthology of prose and poetry in celebration of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers' 40th anniversary The theme of the anthology is love and friendship.

We applaud men for doing good things.We enshrine God for doing great things.But what about a man who does God things?One thing is certain. We can't ignore him. If these moments are factual, if the claim of Christ is actual, then he was, at once, man and God.The single most significant person who ever lived. Forget MVP. He is the entire league. The head of the parade? Hardly. No one else shares the street. Who comes close? Humanity's best and brightest fade l...