This is an inspirational book for women and girls, but anyone is welcome to read it. I know that by teaching women and girls to put themselves first and take care of themselves first, then you are teaching everyone to do the same, as women give birth and are the natural nurturers and teachers anyway.
Kee Kee's Metamorphosis takes you on a journey of a young girl struggling with bullying and abuse. Intended for a wide audience, especially middle and high schoolers, this book shows how bullying can lead to depression, frustration, and the path of self-destruction. The author has shared what she went through as a 13-year-old in Madison, Wisconsin. This book is her way of helping current and potential victims of bullying regain their self-worth. For those whose sense of identity has been forced on them by others and whose day-to-day lives are run by shame and avoidance, Kee Kee's Metamorphosis can be a life saver. In this eye-opening and thought-provoking book, the victims will find hope and strategies to maneuver around being bullied. So join Kee Kee as she navigates this journey, recovers from trauma, and learns to forgive. This true story is one you don't want to miss.
When you find yourself in a world full of promises, hopes, dreams, and sometimes fantasies only to be caught up in a world of confusion, disappointments, and untruth, you often find yourself holding onto the edge, at times unable to relate, wondering if it’s your last breath, chance, or unforeseen opportunity to make your messed up situation right. As life takes a turn for what we might think is the worst, a change soon comes that puts the pieces to the puzzle in its proper place.
This was never intended to become a book but merely an inquisitive endeavor, or search, to discover what those ‘flashing lights’ were up over the mountains. It was as simple as that. Local people said they had no idea what they were, but that people had seen them over many years and just assumed they were airplanes. Pictures were taken of the flashes and then when the pictures were obtained, the image was cropped around it in close to see what would be revealed. That turned out to be a complete surprise. There were shapes conforming to the way people identify images as being like UFOs should be, but there were a whole lot of strange images doing very strange things that hadn’t been expected. Yes, they are still labeled as UFOs (Unidentified Foreign Objects) but they come with a whole new list of strange happenings, experiences, paranormal events both with new and sometimes with answers to some old questions. The author lets her imagination get away a time or two as she tries to imagine a scenario that could depict what is taking place within a series of pictures. She could be ‘way off’ but it gives a ‘jumping off place’ for others to come up with an answer. Actual pictures… true experiences… hidden things emerging… and information or answers sometimes materialize. It’s all included within the pages of the book and many will find things they’ve never heard of or seen before, but there just also might be things that match something they themselves have seen and tried to explain and now has a picture to show of it. The entire book is for you to think about and then YOU DECIDE.
Togetherness and sharing. This sums up the specialness of this book. The book can be enjoyed and looked at alone or with others no matter what age. It will bring the much needed these days bonding of friends and family in a fun type of experience. Whether read or looked at alone or getting together with others to read or hear the stories put into a simple cadence of understanding type poetry the book will be enjoyable for all. Back in time there was prose and poetry with rhyming words in a variety of ways. These days some poetry has become so involved with fancy words and details the thoughts and fun for some about poetry has vanished away. This book tells stories but in a very simple to understand rhyming cadence poetry which may open up or awaken a ‘new phase’ of interest to the readers to try. There are pictures to go with a lot of the poems which will help open up your thoughts and imagination so when the poems without pictures happen, you may sense almost seeing pictures from your imagination showing on the inner screen of the movie theater of your mind.
There are two sides to every story. Some say stories are made up fantasies or fairy tales, while others think they are true. Well, this book covers them both. The stories ARE made up… but… the pictures of the things described within the stories are REAL! The pictures may look like they ‘should’ be the ‘fairy tale’ or‘folklore’ because how could you take a picture of something that doesn’t exist without altering the photo, which these are not.YOU DECIDE!
The original book was published in 1970 with steps to teach very small children how to swim. It was used by swim instructors as well as parents. The original book is being republished for its 50th anniversary. The new book will include some additional material for the reader.
It is her story of embracing risk and change and learning to dance with them. Beginning with a painting of life in Fiji that cradles readers so softly that they wish that they had been born there, readers then accompany her on an adventure to Canada as her family relocates. There is no way to grasp her family's insistence she marry a stranger. Her parents, victims of cultural conformity, insist that she stay with him regardless of the physical and mental abuse he inflicts. Veena's choices inspire readers to deny fear it's power and to embrace change so they can become the authors of their own stories.
