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The former editor of Ramparts magazine discusses muckraking and the American way of life in the turbulent sixties
When Grandma gives you a lemon tree, definitely don’t make a face! Care for the tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new ideas, bloom. “Charms from cover to cover.” —Kirkus (Starred review) “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised (and disappointed) to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget! But when she follows the narrator’s careful—and funny—instructions, she discovers that the tree might be exactly what she wanted after all. This clever story, complete with a recipe for lemonade, celebrates the pleasures of patience, hard work, nature, community . . . and putting down the electronic devices just for a while.
Clichés are commonplace in the world today.Some people build their whole life around a catchy phrase that both entertains and informs. But a lot of times they only deal with surface issues that gives temporary answers to life's more serious issues. Clichés have a place in life and language. But to be helpful they must be transformed into something that empowers people to explore more deeply the great issues of our life and times.The effort of this book is to take a popular cliché and use it to enable people to think more seriously about the issue of bitterness and strife that pervades a great part of the population of the world today. To live a life full of bitterness and strife has to be one of the most distressing ways to live. Bitterness and strife absorb so much of a person's daily existence. It is hard to be constructive when something so strong as bitterness and strife has a foot hole in a person's life. So then, using the common cliché, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade", this book aims to lead the reader towards a path away from bitterness and strife and into a life of joy and peace. No one has to be bitter in life. Bitterness is a choice. There are alternatives. A path to a more positive and constructive way of life can be chosen. Since this cliché has been introduced into the language of modern culture it has been used by various disciplines, doctrines and daily conversations to capture the innate ability of many humans to rise above the pull of bitterness and adopt a lifestyle that chooses to be positive and constructive rather than angry and bitter. We are not created to be bitter, but to be a pleasant aroma that overcomes the harsh tone of our existence that pervades human interaction in so many sectors today."When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is a cliché that is simple but profound in so many ways. Part of the aim of this book is to move it away from just its simplistic use to a more serious effort to transcend the pervasive tendency of modern humans to be consumed by bitterness and strife. Seven elements are presented as primers for acquiring the capacity to overcome any form of bitterness that seeks to have control over our lives. Some are biblical and some are human aspirations that have a close correlation to the teachings of the Bible. In either case the belief is that God desires that humans would be able, with divine help, to live a life that is void of bitterness and infused with God's love that is able to transform the most hurtful situations in life into expressions of God's all-encompassing love, mercy and grace. What I hope to do in this book is to enable someone to get beyond any anger or bitterness in life and become a stronger more loving, compassionate, and kind person.
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sitings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
A lemonade stand in winter? Yes, that's exactly what Pauline and John-John intend to have, selling lemonade and limeade--and also lemon-limeade. With a catchy refrain (Lemon lemon LIME, Lemon LIMEADE! Lemon lemon LIME, Lemon LEMONADE!), plus simple math concepts throughout, here is a read-aloud that's great for storytime and classroom use, and is sure to be a hit among the legions of Jenkins and Karas fans. "A beautifully restrained tribute to trust and tenderness shared by siblings; an entrepreneurship how-to that celebrates the thrill of the marketplace without shying away from its cold realities; and a parable about persistence." —Publishers Weekly, Starred
Out of the “lemons” handed to Mexican American workers in Corona, California--low pay, segregated schooling, inadequate housing, and racial discrimination--Mexican men and women made “lemonade” by transforming leisure spaces such as baseball games, parades, festivals, and churches into politicized spaces where workers voiced their grievances, debated strategies for advancement, and built solidarity. Using oral history interviews, extensive citrus company records, and his own experiences in Corona, José Alamillo argues that Mexican Americans helped lay the groundwork for civil rights struggles and electoral campaigns in the post-World War II era.
Daily Diary / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating lists, for Scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes an excellent gift idea for birthdays, Christmas, coworkers or any special occasion. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 page Softcover bookbinding Flexible Paperback
We're not making lemonade anymore. This book turns the adage on its head by providing readers with practical solutions for dealing with life's sourest points. When Life Gives You Lemons...Stop Making Lemonade discusses some of the most common lemons from familial to the unexpected. When Life Gives You Lemons is also interactive! Inside are Lemon Checkpoints that allow you to jot down the sour points in your life, and how to address them, along with lemon-inspired recipes, lemon facts, and more! Break the habits that lead you to sugarcoat your life, step up to the plate, and learn supreme accountability! When Life Gives You Lemons will show you that life's sweetest moments come when you pucker up and take the lemons that life gives you - or the ones that you give yourself - head-on! Leesa Askew is a transformational speaker and corporate coach who is passionate about supreme accountability, cultural competency, and lemons. When Life Gives You Lemons...Stop Making Lemonade is a testament to her passions and how others can get rid of those pesky lemons in their lives. "Join me in the movement to take supreme accountability, to change the narrative, and STOP making lemonade!" - Leesa Askew #stopmakinglemonade Visit www.leesaaskew.com to find out more.
We've all heard the adage: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. But no one ever says how. Finally, with the inspiration of Plato and the help other great philosophers, Tom Morris has figured it out and here gives us a recipe we all can use. Along the way, he shows us how to move with wisdom from difficulty to delight in everything we do.
