Living Well
Kay Eck's moving and melodic memoir brings us in close-range view of her map-less journey to consciously uncouple from her husband of nearly 30 years. She takes us along as she sorts through some thorny emotions and potent truths before finding solid footing in her own life. Her sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous path takes her on a rich and bumpy ride through self-discovery, unplanned healing and luminous growth. Beautifully written and honestly portrayed, Divorce: a love story cracks marriage wide open revealing the hidden light radiating from within every partnership, especially the one we have with our Self.
"I just finished this beautiful book... or poem... there's not really a name that I know of for what it is. More than a story about conscious uncoupling, it is a window into the heart of a mystic that also happens to illumine a (r)evolutionary antidote to the mass hypnosis that would have us sleepwalking through the unconscious habit of trying to "ex" love out of our hearts. I loved it." -- T.A.
Following the success of Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives a brand new old collection of advice:
- from Birth to Weaning
- the care of Young Children
- Boyhood and Girlhood
"Don't wash the baby in hot water, it would weaken and enervate the babe, and thus predispose him to disease. Luke warm rain water will be the best to wash him with."
"Don't choose a wetnurse of a consumptive habit. Check if she or any of
her family have laboured under "king's evil" ascertaining if there be
any seams or swellings about her neck"
"Don't rock an infant to sleep, it might cause him to fall into a
feverish, disturbed slumber, but not into a refreshing, calm sleep.
Besides, if you once take to that habit he will not go to sleep without
it."
"Don't add either gin or oil of peppermint to the babe's food. It is a murderous practice"
"Don't purge an infant during teething or any other time. IF WE LOCK UP
THE BOWELS, WE CONFINE THE ENEMY, AND THUS PRODUCE MISCHIEF"
From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age.
Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.Adamson writes 34 very brief chapters (though very brief ones) to invite a closer look at different types of objects, materials, craft and production techniques through encounters with people involved with developing, making or using them: we meet the designer of astronauts’ living spaces, a small-town hardware store proprietor, a retired corrections officer, a TV prop manager, and a tribologist who studies the friction of interacting surfaces. Along the way, we are treated to fascinating nuggets of information about how things are made: the working of a fret-saw, how the jacquard loom changed the process of weaving, how changes in automobile silhouettes reflect the drawing tools used to design them, and the technology of injection-moulding plastic. We even learn the elaborate steps of the tea ceremony, which he relates to the awareness and respect for objects, and the craftsmen who made them.
My favorite by far were his own family stories: from his farmer/jet-engine-designer grandfather to his math-prodigy father, his philosopher brother and his physician mother to his own experiences as a museum curator, using each story to draw analogies that make points about materiality and human relationships with objects. - Sandy
Carrie: Folksy wisdom reminiscent of Erma Bombeck or Garrison Keillor, this would make a great pick-me-up gift for a friend or for yourself! When asked to come up with words to live by, Lende offered “Find the good.” This message was gleaned from the lives she witnessed as an obit writer in Hainesville, Alaska, sometimes reflecting her challenge of finding something nice to say about a “client,” but more often honoring simple people who lived simple lives that left a legacy. “Find the good, praise the good, and do good, because you are still able to and because what moves your heart will remain long after you are gone and turn up in the most unexpected places….”
Sandy: I've gifted this book dozens of times. It has quiet but impactful wisdom within its dear etchings, and it's not just for animal lovers, but it's especially great for them.
Hand sanitizers price are skyrocketing? All is out of stock?
No problem! It's time to do all you need by yourself at home!
Your health is more important than anything else.
This 2 books bundle is the only complete guide to protect yourself and your family from viruses and infections.
BOOK1: HOMEMADE FACE MASKS
You will learn how to make 2 types of homemade masks using simple materials in a few minutes. You can follow simple steps illustrated by several pictures (big and clear) until the masks are completed! You will start from a simple paper pattern (personally designed and tested) with all measurements (millimeters and inches).
BOOK2: HOMEMADE HAND SANITIZER
This guide will teach you how to make 15 different homemade hand sanitizers using simple and cheap ingredients. All alcohol-based recipes follow the guidelines suggested from WHO and shows the quantities to use (ml, gr or oz).
Some tips on where to easily find all ingredients are included!
Discover also some natural Alcohol-free recipes as excellent replacements to the water and soap (not antibacterial).
Finally, a smart way to always have the liquid soap with you!
Take a look to the contents of this guide:
BOOK1: HOMEMADE FACE MASKS
- Introduction
- How to Choose the Right Face Mask? Differences and main categories
-FFP1 Masks
-FFP2 Masks
-FFP3 Masks
-Surgical masks
-N95 Masks
- Step by step tutorial to make your mask with paper pattern and picture
- Homemade mask - Type 1
- Materials & Tools
- Step 1: Paper pattern with measures
- Step 2: Non-woven fabric cutting
- Step 3: Fold and insert Baking paper
- Step 4: Seam
- Step 5: Cutting and folding
- Step 6: Nose cover
- Step 7: Final Seams
- Step 8: Metal wire for nose cover
- Step 9: Elastic tape
- Step 10: Wear your homemade face mask
- Homemade mask - Type 2 (Easier and Faster for emergency)
- Materials & Tools
- Step 1: Cut Baking paper
- Step 2: Fold
- Step 3: Close and fix
- Step 4: Elastic tape
- Step 5: Wear your emergency face mask
- Conclusion
BOOK2: HOMEMADE HAND SANITIZER
- Introduction
- How to Wash Your Hands
- Different types of hand sanitizer
-Alcohol based
-Alcohol free
-Gel VS Spray
- How to use hand sanitizer
- Homemade hand sanitizer
- Where to find the required ingredients
- Aloe vera and Tea tree oil properties
-Aloe vera
-Tea tree oil
- 10 Alcohol based recipes
-Recipe 1: WHO recommended Homemade hand sanitizer
-Recipe 2: Sweet almond Pocket Gel
-Recipe 3: Eucalyptus Cheap Gel
-Recipe 4: Lavender & Cloves Gel
-Recipe 5: Nick's secret sanitizer gel
-Recipe 6: Amuchina spray
-Recipe 7: Carbopol Power
-Recipe 8: Oregano
-Recipe 9: Lemon gel
-Recipe 10: WHO Homemade hand sanitizer variant
- 5 Alcohol free recipes
-Recipe 1: Cinnamon & Lemon
-Recipe 2: Thyme and rosemary
-Recipe 3: Orange and mint
-Recipe 4: Natural and Fast
-Recipe 5: Witch hazel
- How to make Soap strips
- Conclusions
Make your homemade face mask and sanitizer now!
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Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Men and women have long struggled to figure each other out--and the misunderstandings can continue well after they've been joined in matrimony. But long before Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, couples turned to self-help booklets such as How to Be a GoodHusband and How to Be a Good Wife, two historic advice books that are now delightfully reproduced by the Bodleian Library.
The books, originally published in the 1930s for middle-class British couples, are filled with witty and charming aphorisms on how wives and husbands should treat each other. Some advice is unquestionably outdated--"It is a wife's duty to look her best. If you don't tidy yourself up, don't be surprised if your husband begins to compare you unfavorably with the typist at the office"--but many other pieces of advice are wholly applicable today. They include such insightful sayings as: "Don't tell your wife terminological inexactitudes, which are, in plain English, lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor departures from the truth"; "After all is said and done, husbands are not terribly difficult to manage"; or "Don't squeeze the tube of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom. This is one of the small things of life that always irritates a careful wife."
Entertaining and charmingly illustrated, How to Be a Good Husband and How to Be a Good Wife offer enduringly useful advice for all couples, from the newly engaged to those celebrating their golden anniversary.
