[bksvol-discuss] Fw: Nonfiction wish list request added to list today
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
Since the lists aren't updated on the site daily I've removed the URLs. If
anyone wants any list, write to me and I'll send it to you directly
Cindy
--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Nonfiction wish list request
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 6:23 PM
> Signals : an inspiring story of life
> after life
>
> by
> Joel Rothschild
>
> About this title: This is the true story of two young men,
> Joel and Albert, who meet, become friends and then drift
> apart. When they meet again several
> years later, both have full blown AIDS. They begin a warm
> and loving relationship that sustains them through the
> horrors of the early AIDS epidemic that
> hits LA. It is during this time, when many of their friends
> have died from AIDS, that Joel and Albert make a pact:
> whoever dies first will attempt to contact
> the other from the beyond. Highly sceptical of anyone who
> claims to have psychic abilities, it is Joel who is left
> behind following Albert's suicide. Joel
> (who is dying of AIDS himself) begins to receive "signals"
> of guidance and support from Albert. Almost reluctantly,
> Joel comes to realize that he really
> does possess psychic gifts and that these gifts can be used
> to help others. Now, almost 15 years later, Joel Rothschild
> is one of America's longest surviving
> AIDS sufferers, and whilst he readily acknowledges the part
> medical science has played in keeping him alive against all
> the odds, he also knows that his
> continuing friendship with Albert has given him the
> inspirational determination to heal.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
> and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
>
> Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules.
> To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in
> cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is
> pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with
> judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever
> letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the
> action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.
> -George Polya, professor of mathematics (1887-1985)
>
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