Forty-five year old Olive, is an Impressive Woman. She holds a managerial position at a prestigious oil company, lives in a nice home in the suburbs with her husband of 15 years with whom she has two school-aged children. Olive has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, loves to socialize, and makes room in her calendar every month to volunteer at the local food bank and library. She spends her free time attending sporting events with the kids and making special dinners for her hubby on weekly date nights. Yes, Olive is an Impressive Woman by anyones standards. But what if they knew?... Olive is overwhelmed. She has so many balls in the air that shes always teetering on the edge of panic: What if I cant get it all done, on time, and within budget? What if they knew? She pushes herself to exhaustion and eventually, she crashes. When she does, usually, no one knows. She hides it well. Once her husband and kids have left for the day, she calls in sick, buries herself in the covers, and cries. Her biggest fear is that someone will discover her weakness; that people will think less of her if they knew. Olive is overwhelmed with her self-imposed burdens. She wants so desperately to be an Impressive Woman that she has kept this secret locked up inside... until now. Read the confessions of Olive and 100 other Impressive Women as they finally reveal the secrets that have been holding them hostage for much of their lives. They are women, just like you and me, who have found the courage to love themselves as they are, and let go of the fears that plague us all. Their stories will touch a chord in you. You will be captivated by the raw truth and emotion as they shed years of pent up anguish and fear. As they are released from bondage, you, the witness, will also be. YOU are an Impressive Woman whose time has come.

People are asking me now, "What is your book about?" There is no snappy answer to set the record straight... It concerns how one slowly breathes in the perspective of an artist, in this case, a photographer. It took me a bit of time to assemble the reality of how my mistakes taught me. Another aspect was keeping me in tune with artistic inclination, or thinking like an artist. These elements were in no hurry to get my attention, either. It came to me that hurrying these inner guides were only going to irritate them. If that happened, one or more of these voices would just evaporate; they weren't really using words and paragraphs anyway. I introduced a focus to the whole mix... The surface of the lake was my subject, which entailed needing a constant awareness of light conditions, wind, and colors around the edges of the lake and out on the water at most times of the day. People on the shore asked, "Why are you taking photographs of the water?" So, as the New England summers melted into foliage fests, the shape and mixture of colors on the surface of this large, gangly pond brought my attention to the possibilities of mixing light, color, and the unexpected conditions suitable for capturing abstract shapes. Much of my learning hinged around a grumbly pontoon boat and its wakes. These were watery tails which liked the interplay of colors from a gaudy sunset. It was my job to make a decent record of how the sky colors refreshed into watercolors, as the waves left temporary troughs behind for my adolescent efforts at creating water art.

An inspiring and compelling collection of questions and answers are posed to Omni, a non-physcial group entity channeled through John Payne. Omni is primarily concerned with communicating the four principals of creation which form the core of his teachings, all centering around the idea that the creative aspect of the universe is a natural part of our being. The Omni material offers candid, uplifting and inspiring answers to questions about abortion, sexuality, suicide, money, health, personal development and decision-making. The all encompassing message that Omni relates is that all is okay with humanity -- we are evolving without encountering the prophesied disasters -- and will continue to be okay as we gently unfold our potential. John Payne is a gifted and internationally known trance channel and metaphysical teacher who studied Light Body with Sanaya Roman some years ago. He now travels the globe offering workshops and lecturing in Germany, the U.S., South Africa, Scandinavia, Croatia and the Netherlands. Payne is well-known on the internet, having a prominent position on Spiritweb, the web's largest new age site. He has also written articles for several U.S. based metaphysical journals, such as the Sedona Journal of Emergence, Horizons, and the Auroran, and is a regular contributor to Namaste Magazine in South Africa.

Daniel Payne was born in about 1770 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He married Nancy Paine in about 1790. He died in 1839 in Maury County, Tennessee. Includes Austin, Fox, Teague and related families.

The book is about parents of two young boys where the Mother tasks the older brother to give the younger brother Raymond a bath. What seemed boring at first turns into a small adventure through imagination as it's being narrated by the older brother.

Body, Mind & Spirit / Self-Help This book’s perspective on healing will expand the reader’s vision, beyond the scope of healing as a purely individual and personal matter, to one that spans generations in its scope, crosses racial and cultural barriers and sheds new light on the relationships between victims and perpetrators, be they from governments and regimes, wars, sexual abuse or crime. Payne’s “Orders of Love” describe a natural pattern that has been observed in the practice of Family Constellations--namely, that there is a distinct order stating who belongs and who does not belong, not only in a family system, but also in larger groups such as nations. With its many examples and stories, Payne’s book brings back into belonging those who have been excluded and bridges the gap between the healing of an individual and the healing of family, ethnic and national souls. John L. Payne, also known as Shavasti, has travelled the length and breadth of this globe, firstly in childhood and then in his adult life in search of deeper meaning and experience. His multi-cultural background created a childhood that was spread over three continents and an adult life spent living in Europe, Africa, Central and South America and Asia, with much time being spent in the USA. With the experience of having given more than 400 workshops on 6 continents, you are receiving a wealth of cultural, ethnic and historical experience that makes his work finely tuned for ancestral healing having worked with hundreds of individuals across the globe.

This is a book of permission slipsbut not for scout hikes or eighth-grade field trips. These give you permission to own the thoughts and feelings that you may already secretly harbor but never knew you were even allowed to consider. You may already have had rebellious thoughts about other peoples expectations of you, but quickly squelched them in order not to disappoint. You may have imagined that God might be quite different from what was taught in your home and your culture, but never felt comfortable expressing your beliefs. Get Out of the Box and Discover Your Life is a liberating look at ideas that could open up the excitement of discovery in your lifeeven if your societys rules have blocked you from entertaining these ideas until now. Learn how you can help save Earth and its people from ongoing deterioration by changing your own energy field. This can be done only if you can remove the mental shackles that your tribal rules have fettered you with.

Enriched by numerous case studies and years of client experience, this book guides readers to move beyond the tangled web of stories they tell themselves and others about their lives, relationships, illnesses, and disruptive life patterns. Step-by-step, the chapters uncover the origins of behaviors and feelings such as drug or alcohol addiction, failed careers, and depression. Hidden loyalties to people and ideas are introduced as the underlying causes of these obstacles, which cloud the path to success and cause people to believe the stories they tell themselves, eventually losing touch with the truth. Through the examples in this book, readers will learn to acknowledge and embrace truth, spelling out the explicit facts and rejecting the fictions they have created to excuse their failings.