Radio Show | Mary Johnson
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Mary Johnson discusses her newly released memoir, An Unquenchable Thirst, wherein she describes two decades of spiritual service as a nun with the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India.
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What would you do if the loss of your sight ignited a war between you two best friends?
This is the case for 35-year-old, psychologist, Sahel Ohin, involving her two friends from childhood, Titus Denning and Carl Pierson.
The surgery that could return Sahel’s sight might also kill her.
Sahel’s husband, Titus, a cardiac surgeon, fears the latter.
Sahel’s neurosurgeon, Carl Pierson, believes Sahel’s blindness has rendered her hostage to Titus.
On the first night out since her blindness Sahel meets James Bolton, a former San Francisco stockbroker.
Though never having met they converse as if old friends.The winter afternoon that Sahel attempted suicide, James received life imprisonment for murder, and his fiancée leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge.
When during dinner Sahel accidentally knocks over her glass of water and wets her gown James escorts her out onto the verandah.
Against the backdrop of Sahel’s husband, Titus, inside the ballroom and receiving an award, James asks, “Do you believe…in life after death?”Seasons in Purdah shows what happens when best friends become adults, and how, among many things, life is but a series of choices, the consequences of which yield a drama that both weaves and unravels the knots binding us to those we cherish and who love us.
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To see how Sahel sets out to address her dilemma click here to begin reading Seasons in Purdah (scheduled for release in 2012) at 10-Day Book Club, where membership is free and writers become an open book.
I will be entertaining reading comments from readers at 10-Day Book Club until October 23rd, 2011.
You can also begin reading Seasons in Purdah @ SCRIBD.
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I recently saw the movie, Mausam, written and directed by Pankaj Kapoor, and starring the beautiful Sonam Kapoor opposite the wonderful and delightfully handsome, Shahid Kapoor, none of whom are related.
Like most Bollywood movies of its genre, historical dramatic romance, the movie move along taking its time to tell what I experienced as a beautiful love story.
Critics on both sides of the ocean suggest that the pacing could be increased by eliminating various scenes that do not contribute to the overall plot of the story.
I disagree.
The director could have deleted certain scenes and decreased the run time and perhaps maintained the high level of enjoyment I experienced.
But why fix what is not broken?
As an American moviegoer that has grown tired of movies aiming to tell a story with what often appears an ultimate goal of relaying the narrative, in movie format, in the shortest amount of time possible, Read the rest of this entry…
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A woman asking for moral guidance for a friend whose wife has Alzheimer’s…
This is the woman who recently called the 700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, a husband for 57 years to his wife, Adelia.
“He says, he should be allowed to see other people because his wife as he knows her is gone...” the woman said of her friend.
To the surprise of many, Robertson, an ordained Baptist Minister for 50 years advised that the man in question Read the rest of this entry…
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If you want to practice patience, try shooting butterflies.
They are nothing, if not elusive. Beautiful and elusive.
“If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.”
On the way to school one morning this past week our youngest child noticed as a motorcycle moving past our truck and other cars then still and waiting for the light to turn green.
The motorcyclist, like many, was moving through the small space between lanes.
It was a long line of cars and the anxiety of morning rush releasing its sting.
“Can you do that?” our youngest asked.
“Yes. You can do anything you want,” I replied. “But the bigger question asks, “Is what
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“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.
Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
— Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiI saw two movies this weekend. Contagion, for the first time, and Colombiana for the 2nd.
Viewing a movie for the second time, much like reading a book, allows the opportunity to evaluate and inspect what either makes the story work, or remain vibrant in your mind, or the memories of its plot and characters, if you can recall them, slink into the recesses of the forgotten.
I was not excited at the thought of seeing Colombiana a second time.
Yet now as I write, I realize my hesitation came not from the quality of the movie itself, but quite the opposite.
The story of a young woman, who in losing her parents to a villainous killing at the age of 9, then seeking revenge, Colombiana is clearly a character driven story.
Contagion on the other hand, involves many characters whose roles work to tell the story of not a person, but rather display the effect of
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Love is one long sweet dream and marriage is the alarm clock. --BLOOM OF LOVE on Twitter
When reading this on Twitter I immediately thought of how living so closely with someone, waking up to them next to you when your breath does not carry the aroma you would like to hit your nose, never mind that of another, their seeing you sick and the reverse, and their witnessing your various responses to life's trials can and does reveal your inner core, the essence of your personality. Yes, love by itself and unfettered by the commitment of marriage, ...for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health...and unto death...
http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2011/09/05/of-love-dreams-and-waking-up/ “Love is one long sweet dream and marriage is the alarm clock.” BLOOM OF LOVE on Twitter When reading this on Twitter I immediately thought of how living so closely with someone, waking up to them next to you when your breath does not carry the aroma you would like to hit your nose, never mind that of another, their seeing you sick and the reverse, and their witnessing your various responses to life’s trials can and does reveal your inner core, the essence of your personality. Yes, love by itself and unfettered by the commitment of marriage, “…for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health…and unto death…”
