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Sweet Bliss · 06-24-2013, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweet Bliss

Got my recent order this afternoon.

"8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back" by Esther Gokhale, L.Ac.

Comes highly recommended, since I know so many peeps with bad backs thought I might learn something to help them. Am also hoping to prevent the same in myself.

Having back pain can make your life sooo freaking miserable.

I typically only read spirit based or practical practice-able books to help myself and others. So I promised to share my knowledge.

My roomie has been in severe pain for years, with less mobility and increased pain yearly.

So. I have been researching for awhile. I found the sacro wedgy. works great for me, but i don't have chronic severe back pain.

Roomie has used it twice, today and yesterday. most of her pain is GONE, she can stand up straight, does not need to use grocery cart to walk through store. several joints have realigned in her back and her hip joints are almost back in the socket. I heard several loud pops as lower vertebrae went back where they belong.

It is like a miracle. I have never seen her get up without groaning , and pain noises.
her whole FACE is different. It's a face without pain. She says she can feel the blood flow moving throughout her whole body and in her head...

I am glad I found something that truly helps.

The other thing we are exploring is " The Melt Method", another great pain reliever.

Katniss · 06-25-2013, 11:08 AM

1. The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. by Associated Press reporter Jonathan Katz.
Basically nothing I didn't already know. He gives very specific examples of NGO's and the assistance they thought was needed (post earthquake) and how not listening to or respecting their Haitian counterparts led to less than stellar results. That said I take exception on too much "rah rah" one-sidedness. Corruption is rampant in Haiti within their own government (not that this is unique to Haitians as the CEO in my county was just indicted on racketeering.) Sadly good intentions don't always produce good results and he gives several well documented cases of project failure. An interesting read if you are curious about "where did my donation go and why are they still living in squalor."

That said I think empowering and micro-funding women owned small business and listening to what *they* say is needed will go a long way. Haiti produces some of the best vanilla in the world and Barbancourt rum is outstanding. As well the Progressive Women of Leogane were promoting cane harvesting and reforestation well before the earthquake. They were also micro-lending amongst themselves long before it became popular.

2. "Gift From the Sea"by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. This is a re-read for me as I take it out every couple of years just to center myself a bit more when all the flotsam and jetsam of life seems to overwhelm. I like the messages of simplicity, self-care not being self-ish, and recognizing our outward environment and habits have a ripple effect on our inward peace of mind and wholeness. A nice little book to slowly read a short chapter each morning to begin the day.

Katniss~~

06-25-2013, 11:18 AM

Thus far today it has been the relevant fellowship's 12x12 and The first in Laura Antoniou's Marketplace series.

Semantics · 06-26-2013, 07:41 AM

I'm reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

~baby~doll~ · 06-26-2013, 09:21 AM

Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood by Emily W. Leider

A few chapters in and i find it a good read. Myrna s a star who always fascinated me. i love her sexy eyes.

puddin' · 06-26-2013, 03:19 PM

will love for crumbs: a memoir, by jonna ivin

they came to bagdad, by agatha christie

Hollylane · 06-29-2013, 02:12 PM

The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

&

The Heart of the Five Love Languages

By Gary D. Chapman

Kobi · 06-30-2013, 11:14 PM

Angie recommended Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It is a fascinating read of human pathology that makes ones hair stand on end. Not my usual cup of tea but it was well done and very engrossing.

NorCalStud · 06-30-2013, 11:33 PM

The butchcock thread. I can imagine several of those stories being published.

Also I am reading Masters Manual..Handbook of Erotic Dominance. Jack Rinella

and then this book that I think is going to offer something very interesting.

Many Lives
Many Masters

True story of a prominent Psychiatrist, his young patient, and Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives.

Kätzchen · 07-01-2013, 04:11 AM

I ditched my summer reading plans and took several books back to Powell's and traded them in for a different book, which was recommended to me by a staffer at the store. I've only just begun to read it and for some reason, I'm already drawn into the story.

Here's a brief introduction to the story:

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark

Cailin · 07-01-2013, 06:59 AM

Im still (yes. STILL) reading memoirs of a geisha. But! Im just 100 pages til the end.

loving this book

GraffitiBoi · 07-01-2013, 07:01 AM

I'm currently reading through a ton of research material for the book I'm writing. I'm also re-reading Kushiel's Dart for fun.

cinnamongrrl · 07-01-2013, 01:25 PM

I am currently engrossed in, Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith Belle Gelles

http://www.inthestax.com/book-review...of-a-marriage/

I bought it over a year ago, but have picked up various other books in the mean time... I just finally picked it up and I have learned so much in the first thirty pages. I have read other things about the Adamses, and I do know that theirs was a true love story.. <3

Ginger · 07-01-2013, 01:45 PM

Honestly? Pretty much all I've read for the last few months is my own work. Over and over.

Chelsius · 07-01-2013, 02:59 PM

Joyland by Stephen King

The JD · 07-01-2013, 06:14 PM

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Not really sure what I thought it would be about, but am pleasantly surprised.

Talon · 07-02-2013, 11:01 AM

"Producer"..(lessons shared from 30 years in television)

By Wendy Walker, Senior Executive Producer of Larry King Live

Cid · 07-02-2013, 11:03 AM

posts and text messages..who has time for more than that??

Mopsie · 07-02-2013, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by NCS

Many Lives
Many Masters

True story of a prominent Psychiatrist, his young patient, and Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives.

I was just talking about this book with somebody at work ... I read it a number of years ago and really enjoyed it. Tell me what you think when you get time.

Glenn · 07-02-2013, 04:02 PM

"A Transatlantic Love Affair" is about the strange, long-distance, affair, between macho writer Nelson Algren ("Man With The Golden Arm", "Walk On The Wild Side") and the founding mother of modern feminism Simone de Beauvoir ("The Second Sex"). I live across the road from the dilapidated little cottage Nelson bought, where she lived. No one lives there now, and I spend every spare moment just hanging there. She wrote about it to Sartre:
"Algren has bought a ravishing little house hidden in the trees, with a garden running down to a little lake. You cross the lake by boat, and on the other side is dunes, and the immense Lake Michigan, with a lovely, sandy, beach. I think it shall be really agreeable living here."

06-25-2013, 11:08 AM	#1902
Katniss Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Dame, doll, twist, dish Preferred Pronoun?: Ladylike ones Relationship Status: ***** Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: We drink sweet tea here Posts: 2,903 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,654 Thanked 10,391 Times in 2,094 Posts Rep Power**: 21474850	I like multiples... 1. The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. by Associated Press reporter Jonathan Katz. Basically nothing I didn't already know. He gives very specific examples of NGO's and the assistance they thought was needed (post earthquake) and how not listening to or respecting their Haitian counterparts led to less than stellar results. That said I take exception on too much "rah rah" one-sidedness. Corruption is rampant in Haiti within their own government (not that this is unique to Haitians as the CEO in my county was just indicted on racketeering.) Sadly good intentions don't always produce good results and he gives several well documented cases of project failure. An interesting read if you are curious about "where did my donation go and why are they still living in squalor." That said I think empowering and micro-funding women owned small business and listening to what they say is needed will go a long way. Haiti produces some of the best vanilla in the world and Barbancourt rum is outstanding. As well the Progressive Women of Leogane were promoting cane harvesting and reforestation well before the earthquake. They were also micro-lending amongst themselves long before it became popular. 2. "Gift From the Sea"by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. This is a re-read for me as I take it out every couple of years just to center myself a bit more when all the flotsam and jetsam of life seems to overwhelm. I like the messages of simplicity, self-care not being self-ish, and recognizing our outward environment and habits have a ripple effect on our inward peace of mind and wholeness. A nice little book to slowly read a short chapter each morning to begin the day. Katniss~~

06-26-2013, 09:21 AM	#1905
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06-25-2013, 11:18 AM	#1903
Daktari Guest Tournaments Won: 1 Posts: n/a My Photo Gallery	Thus far today it has been the relevant fellowship's 12x12 and The first in Laura Antoniou's Marketplace series.

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07-01-2013, 04:11 AM	#1910
Kätzchen Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Monogamously Attached to my boyfriend and future husband. Join Date: May 2010 Location: He’s usually with me unless I am with Him. Posts: 15,084 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 36,003 Thanked 31,991 Times in 9,939 Posts Rep Power: 21474865	I ditched my summer reading plans and took several books back to Powell's and traded them in for a different book, which was recommended to me by a staffer at the store. I've only just begun to read it and for some reason, I'm already drawn into the story. Here's a brief introduction to the story: Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark __________________ Kätzchen _____ ______

07-01-2013, 06:59 AM	#1911
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07-02-2013, 04:02 PM	#1920
Glenn Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Northwest Wind and Lake Michigan Preferred Pronoun?: Paesano Relationship Status: Solo Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Posts: 1,546 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,597 Thanked 3,732 Times in 1,096 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	"A Transatlantic Love Affair" is about the strange, long-distance, affair, between macho writer Nelson Algren ("Man With The Golden Arm", "Walk On The Wild Side") and the founding mother of modern feminism Simone de Beauvoir ("The Second Sex"). I live across the road from the dilapidated little cottage Nelson bought, where she lived. No one lives there now, and I spend every spare moment just hanging there. She wrote about it to Sartre: "Algren has bought a ravishing little house hidden in the trees, with a garden running down to a little lake. You cross the lake by boat, and on the other side is dunes, and the immense Lake Michigan, with a lovely, sandy, beach. I think it shall be really agreeable living here."