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The Growing Spirit

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The Growing SpiritThe Growing Spirit is a metamorphosis of change throughout our lifetime personified in a cocoon's eyes. A journey to be taken as a tiny web of thread, her cocoon, stuck upon an apple tree branch. As she ponders life and all of the growing things around her; she feels taken by the wonders and sights of life flourishing and changing all around. Yet, because she sees no change within her cocoon, as a soul protecting the spirit, she feels her life

The Growing Spirit is a metamorphosis of change throughout our lifetime personified in a cocoon's eyes. A journey to be taken as a tiny web of thread, her cocoon,  stuck upon an apple tree branch. As she ponders life and all of the growing things around her; she feels taken by the wonders and sights of life flourishing and changing all around. Yet, because she sees no change within her “cocoon”, as a soul protecting the spirit, she feels her life stagnated. The journey throughout the book exemplifies how judgements over others or judgements within our own self. The emotional roller coasters as we grow inside our body and soul are created through her cocoon. There is a giant Growing Spirit within us All. God bless, and listen to the quiet voice of reasoning. To feel is to deal and heal upon the Eternal Grace of God.

About the Author

Born in Fullerton, California, moving then to Herndon Va, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and having family scattered from New England to the Carolinas; I am well traveled and highly adaptive. Certified in education as an Art Historian, Art Educator and Artist, I have been learning for decades. The love of music, nature, oceans and warm sunshine as the gardens in my life grow, are everlasting. A volunteer in Hospice and Homeless, I spread my care and faith to all. I am a creature of creation and imagination. I hold deep faith in God and must give these gifts of exploration of spirit, faith, storytelling and reflection to all who yearn for growing in love and trust. Being married, and having three children, as a mother since 1999, I had patience yesterday. From ducks to dogs and cats, chinchillas, hamsters, fish what more? The passion to have animals in my life to listen and learn from them in order to create these books are bountiful blessings I honor daily.

Enjoy, God bless..Parsippany Bea

About the Illustrator

I have always loved reading above all other things one could enjoy. I listen to audiobooks while drawing, painting, sewing, quilting and crafting. Creative thinking and learning how to play piano while creating illustrations helps relax my mind. My favorite projects are those I am working on at the moment in time. I studied Commercial Art at the Institute of Pittsburgh. Creating many multi-faceted projects gives me a constant ability to change as I continue life's path. They all give me joy and wonder, as I find my way exploring through a variety of fiber arts or visual arts. By adding colors and creating images, I find myself analyzing each step of the process and finding a new way or different style each time a piece is made. I live in Pennsylvania with my loving husband Joe. I also have one daughter. Our daughter Amanda is a blessing to our family. 

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Difficult. Rewarding. Serious. Hilarious. Wise. Faux-wise. Scholarly. Mock-scholarly. Observant. Absurdly, obsessively observant. Sharp characterizations. Ridiculous characters. Devout. Bawdy. Endearing. Frustrating. Genius. Barking mad. Narratively incoherent. Stream-of-consciousness associative. Consistently provincial. Profoundly universal. Mired in the 18th century. Harbinger of 20th century literary Modernism. Baffling. Brilliant Not for every taste. For my taste. And while I'm at it, let me give a shout-out for the out-of-print Norton critical edition, which provides many helps, essay avenues of understanding, and a clever chapter summary/table of contents. For so many years - since reading Moby Dick in grad school with the help of a Norton critical - this publication line has been my go-to for great texts: useful annotations, contemporary reviews, later scholarly articles, and more. And also let me give a shout-out to Anton Lesser, who narrated the complete novel for Naxos. I have never, ever experienced an audiobook as masterfully produced and narrated as Naxos' Tristram Shandy. No, it is simply not a book one can listen to and fully comprehend as heard. But one might read while listening, or listen while reading, with - if you have the riight software - the narration sped up closer to one's own reading speed, and experience the full majesty of Lesser's absolute preparation, with Latin, Greek, French, and German - as well as regional English - beautifully and humorously intoned, character voices carefully differentiated, tone and mood captured, etc. Or, as I do, go for a walk and listen as you walk, and afterward slip into a comfy chair, crack the novel open, and continue from where you left off, or backtrack if necessary to sort out the characters. In any event, and particularly for devotees of audio books, do find Anton Lesser's note-perfect reading, a veritable radio serial, perhaps the last book you'd expect anyone to attempt single-handedly, with My Father, My Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, Doctor Slop, Widow Wadman, and all the rest of the supporting characters beautifully, consistently interpreted. Lesser is, in a galaxy of fine narrators, the greatest I've heard: an absolutely peerless voice actor in a most demanding work.
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Ritesh Laud
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Brilliant stream of consciousness style, *extremely* humorous
"The Life and Opinions..." is perhaps impossible to really classify. It purports to be a biography of the fictional Tristram Shandy, but I don't think you can call something a biography when it only covers a year or so of the subject's life! I would say that more than half of the novel actually falls into the "Opinions" referred to in the title. The rest consists of short stories on Tristram's father, uncle, and a couple other minor characters. I have never in my life read so many digressions from the topic at hand, most of which were utterly irrelevant but the charm of it is that Sterne *knows* they're irrelevant, but mockingly expresses his license of authorship in forcing the reader to go off on these sidetracks. His attitude is: "If you can't wait a chapter or two to get back to the story, well, go take a flying leap, I'm the author." Sometimes the digressions are exasperating. Very unlike Victor Hugo's signature habit of digressing, say when a certain main character in Notre Dame decides to enter the Paris sewers, Hugo takes thirty or more pages to give a history of the design and construction of the Paris sewer system. At least Hugo's digressions have *something* to do with the story. Well, maybe that's the problem. There isn't a main story in this novel. It's not a storybook. There are many short stories nested within the main framework, but there is no real protagonist or overarching theme of any sort. Indeed, the end comes abruptly and there is absolutely no resolution of any conflict. It's not trying to teach anything, really. So what is it? I'm not sure. More a comedy than anything else. Right up there with Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" in terms of humor, but lacking the story. Maybe funnier than Dickens and just as clever. I was rolling in the aisles so many times I lost count. I read the Penguin edition, edited by Melvyn & Joan New. The back cover does a better job than I could ever do in providing a sense of what you're getting into when you pick this one up: "No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations." It's a large work, it will take a while to work through. It's worth it. There are passages I want to go back to and make copies of to tape to the walls, they're that brilliant.
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Interesting read, but takes some getting used to
I heard about this book on a blog, and figured I'd check it out. It's the rambling tale of a man determined to give you every last detail of everything that might be important to the narrative of his life. Unfortunately, he goes on tangets so often that he doesn't even get to his birth for several chapters, let alone the story of the rest of his life. Along the way, you're introduced to lots of random characters who are (at best) loosely related to the protagonist, but as often as not these tangents are fairly amusing. The writing is pretty dense, and this along with the tangents had me putting the book down fairly often. It's probably ideal for a commuting book, but I never wanted to just sit down and blitz through big chunks of it. Overall it's a very different kind of experience than a novel reader typically gets. It's worth a read for a change of pace, but I can't say it's a life-altering read.
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