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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480498903321

Autore

May Jim <1947->

Titolo

Trail guide for a crooked heart : stories and reflections for life's journeys / / Jim May

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Marion, Michigan : , : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-62491-023-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

170/.44

Soggetti

Conduct of life

Storytellers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Prologue; Don't Believe Everything You Read; Chapter 1. Setting Out; Be Not Afraid; Seek the Right Path; Pack a Lunch; A Day of Birth Story; Chapter 2. My Own Journey; The Herald Call of Prairie Sirens; The National Storytelling Festival; Jack Tales; Chapter 3. Broken and Blessed; Windows For The Soul; The Cracked Pot; A Baal Shem Tov Story; The Man Whose Horse Ran Off; Abraham Lincoln-Our Greatest Broken Leader; Chapter 4. The Third Eye-Seeing the Unseen; The Peddler of Swaffham and His Dream; A Peddler's Teaching; Mark Twain's Third Eye; Chapter 5. Signal Trees

Elders and MentorsPilgrimage to Beech Mountain-America's Storytelling Royalty; Duncan Williamson-The Man With Three Thousand Stories; Jack Goes to School (A Scottish Jack Tale); Jackie Torrence Holds Studs Spellbound; Studs Terkel; Inez Ashdown and the Last Queen of Hawai'i; Carl and Helen-Building an Elders' Circle; A D-Day Story; Helen's Story; Chapter 6. Toxic Paths and Transformation; A Long, Crooked Path to Redemption; Gandhi's Outrageous WWII Proposal; Duty Calls; Choosing a Crooked Path; Soldier's Heart-We Ought to Be Able . . .; The Legacy of Traditional Stories

Envision Peace-The Power of IdeasThe Civil War and Soldier's Heart; Chapter 7. Trails End and Transformation; My Sister Diane; The Mystery of Noah's Raven; Chapter 8. Failures, Wounds, and Second Chances;



King Arthur and Percival's Story; Brother Paul, Who Art Thou?; Acknowledgements; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography