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In this ensemble of beautifully personal interrelated essays writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan weaves together threads of stories and common experiences to create a meditation on family life She explores the familiar rituals the shared dreams and the guarded secrets that tie family together as she unravels the mysteries behind familial relationships Throughout McClanahan seeks to identify what it means to be an individual within the context of kinship and unexpected connectionsBesides navigating her own emotional landscape and her familys McClanahan revisits the physical places of her childhood adolescence and adulthood She takes us to the military bases where her father and husband were stationed to the cemeteries she loved as both child and adult and to the various hospitals and homes that served as backdrops for family crises and celebrations Without sentimentality she considers the meaning of lossesthe loss of a child a family home and a family pet and a lost chance at motherhoodPartly fashioned around the lines of the folk tune The Riddle Song The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings captures the palpable bonds that exist between mothers daughters fathers siblings aunts uncles nieces nephews and grandparents Through intuitive and exquisite language Rebecca McClanahan reveals the strange and enchanting patterns that connect her to these ancestral souls
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Song of Riddles is an inquiry into the meaning behind the metaphors that animate the Song of Songs based on a wide range of source materials and scholarship The core question prompting this inquiry into the Song of Songs is whether given the opaque literary confines of the text it is possible to access the Songs intended subtext using the text itself as a guide in uncovering its underlying theological message The nexus between metaphor and meaning in the Song lies at the point at which the three planes of dreamfantasies riddles and love wisdom intersect Understanding how the Song functions simultaneously on these independent trajectories is the first step toward arriving at the concealed meaning of the Songs seemingly impenetrable metaphors The research presented in this book demonstrates the Song to be part of the rare literary genre of riddles and points to the two lovers in the Song as hinting to the Temple keruvim These angelic figurines were the sequestered keepers of the Holy Ark and the Divine law as well as the representatives of the nation of Israel before the Divine presence The approach to understanding the Song presented in Song of Riddles seamlessly and authentically merges the traditional rabbinic allegorical approach to the Song with the plain sense of the text
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Song of Riddles is an inquiry into the meaning behind the metaphors that animate the Song of Songs based on a wide range of source materials and scholarship The core question prompting this inquiry into the Song of Songs is whether given the opaque literary confines of the text it is possible to access the Songs intended subtext using the text itself as a guide in uncovering its underlying theological message The nexus between metaphor and meaning in the Song lies at the point at which the three planes of dreamfantasies riddles and love wisdom intersect Understanding how the Song functions simultaneously on these independent trajectories is the first step toward arriving at the concealed meaning of the Songs seemingly impenetrable metaphors The research presented in this book demonstrates the Song to be part of the rare literary genre of riddles and points to the two lovers in the Song as hinting to the Temple keruvim These angelic figurines were the sequestered keepers of the Holy Ark and the Divine law as well as the representatives of the nation of Israel before the Divine presence The approach to understanding the Song presented in Song of Riddles seamlessly and authentically merges the traditional rabbinic allegorical approach to the Song with the plain sense of the text
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Feast of Creatures Anglo Saxon sold at 24.24 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
In A Feast of Creatures Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley HopkinsLike the early English riddlers before him Williamson gives voice to the nightingale plow ox phallic onion and stormwind In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler the sword as a celibate thane the silver winecup as a seductress the horn transformed from headwarrior to inkbelly or battlesinger In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions sources and analogues a shrewd sense of literary play and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed In his introduction Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship
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The Golden Christmas Book Stories Songs Poems Riddles and Things to do for Christmas
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This book is a used library book and may contain the librarys name barcode markings etc This book is by no means stolen and is available for resale
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The people of the Kentucky mountains and the southern Appalachians preserved a language alive with colorful turns of phrase and whimsical wit and for their amusement they created a rich vein of oral loresongs tales and games James Still presents a varied and entertaining collection of riddles whimsies and verbal pranks gathered through his long association with the mountain people of eastern Kentucky This book includes in one volume two earlier booksWay Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek and The Wolfpen Rustiesthat have been unavailable for several years It contains the complete text of the original editions including Stills explanatory notes for archaic or obscure expressions Also included are the original lively illustrations by the noted artist Janet McCaffery
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Answer to the Riddle sold at 20.12 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
In 2002 at age twentyeight david maclean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean No money No passport No identity Taken to a mental hospital by the police maclean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows but not his family his friends or the woman he loved All of these symptoms it turned out were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking Upon his return to the states he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing absurd and unforgettable journey back to himself A deeply felt closely researched and intensely personal book the answer to the riddle is me drawn from macleans awardwinning this american life essay confronts and celebrates the dark mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable especially to ourselves
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Songs for Swingin Lovers sold at 32.09 $ ; this product is listed in the Music category, produced by , and sold by Deepdiscount.com.
Limited vinyl LP pressing Franks romantic masterpiece arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle Originally released in 1956 and celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016 Songs For Swingin Lovers features classic standards and signature Sinatra recordings including Ive Got You Under My Skin Love Is Here To Stay and You Make Me Feel So Young Songs for Swingin Lovers Was the tenth studio album recorded by his fourth for Capitol Records It was the first album ever to top the UK Albu
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MexicanAmericans of today are richly nourished by the folkways of three cultures Indian Spanish and Mexican This comprehensive look at the MexicanAmerican world includes proverbs riddles and folksongs
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The pieces to a vast mysterious and ancient puzzle come together to form the secret society known as the Circle but when Cheyne a young archaeologist becomes determined to solve the ancient riddle and find the Armageddon clock before the Beast of the Hours awakes Original
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Playtime Treasury A Collection of sold at 101.17 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Children will have hours of fun with this collection of chants riddles songs and games Lively illustrations accompany each rhyme while easytofollow instructions explain how to play the games themselves
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Step It Down Games Plays sold at 23.38 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Growing up in the rural South Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays These songs and games recorded in Step It Down by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes capture the shape and color of the crowded impoverished lifedemanding and lifeloving days of the black family of sixty years ago revealing the strength and vitality of African and slave traditions in black American lifeThe power of music and motion to transform a world of scarcity and hardship into one of laughter and joy echoes throughout Bessie Joness wordsAnd the other childrens and I would go in the bottom and have a frolic instead of going to bed I was just up for that singing and I remembered they used to say Come on Lizzie and wed go down a way and wed have a dance Oh it was pretty You know it was just as good as the bluesbetter better in a way When the old folks would go to work or go off or something wed put on them long dresses and boy wed have a timeStep It Down weaves together the lyrics music and description of traditional AfroAmerican childrens songs as well as Joness comments on their meaning and feel Whether reciting Tom Tom Greedy Gut or demonstrating the more complex steps of Ranky Tank and Buzzards Lope Bessie Jones always viewed the amusements of the young as preparation for adult roles and relationships and as a teacher she developed her own philosophy of how a black child is socialized into the larger community Grounded in the values of black society her songs taught children about cooperative interaction and mutual concern not about competition and individual achievement showing them how to create fun out of nothing more than their hands feet voices and imaginations
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Oh yuck Thats gross I love it The music CD features Greasy Gopher Guts Road Kill Stew The Cat Came Back and 25 other gross and annoying songs guaranteed to make kids and grownups laugh groan and smile The 96page workbook includes gross and notsogross jokes and riddles experiments and stunts things to make pranks and skits recipes and the Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts card game Gross amp Annoying Songs is a great resource for kids parties summer camp weekend retreats family camping clubs and rainy day fun Approximate run time 4500
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Step it down games plays sold for 352.36 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Growing up in the rural South Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays These songs and games recorded in Step It Down by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes capture the shape and color of the crowded impoverished lifedemanding and lifeloving days of the black family of sixty years ago revealing the strength and vitality of African and slave traditions in black American lifeThe power of music and motion to transform a world of scarcity and hardship into one of laughter and joy echoes throughout Bessie Joness wordsAnd the other childrens and I would go in the bottom and have a frolic instead of going to bed I was just up for that singing and I remembered they used to say Come on Lizzie and wed go down a way and wed have a dance Oh it was pretty You know it was just as good as the bluesbetter better in a way When the old folks would go to work or go off or something wed put on them long dresses and boy wed have a timeStep It Down weaves together the lyrics music and description of traditional AfroAmerican childrens songs as well as Joness comments on their meaning and feel Whether reciting Tom Tom Greedy Gut or demonstrating the more complex steps of Ranky Tank and Buzzards Lope Bessie Jones always viewed the amusements of the young as preparation for adult roles and relationships and as a teacher she developed her own philosophy of how a black child is socialized into the larger community Grounded in the values of black society her songs taught children about cooperative interaction and mutual concern not about competition and individual achievement showing them how to create fun out of nothing more than their hands feet voices and imaginations
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Loves a Long Song sold for 21.99 $ , available in the Movies, TV Series category; this product belongs to and is sold by Deepdiscount.com.
King Black Acid is the brain child of daniel john riddle A forward thinking and incredibly talented orchestrator singer guitar player and writer A thinker a visionary an alien a freak loves a long song is the culmination and condensation of the popside of riddles brain with lush arrangements and forceful rock psychedelia as the back drop that his band the starseed transmission provides for his lyrical journeys Trips leave every hour so hurryup Get a ticket to ride Youll arriv
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Limited vinyl LP repressing Released in 1955 IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS was Frank Sinatras ninth studio album Recorded for Capitol the album was arranged Nelson Riddle and is regarded as one of the firstever concept albums featuring songs about loneliness and lost love Certified gold IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS was commercially successful and spent eighteen weeks at number two on the charts Rolling Stone also considers it one of the best albums of all time
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Judy Garland is one of the most beloved entertainers of all time both as a multiple Academy Award nominated actress and as the singer of legendary recordings This 1958 release presents Judys renditions of beautiful love songs over Nelson Riddles perfect arrangements This sublime album is pressed on 180 gram audiophile grade vinyl and is draped in gorgeous fullyrestored sleeve artwork
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Route 66 The Complete Series sold for 81.09 $ , available in the Movies, TV Series category; this product belongs to and is sold by Deepdiscount.com.
Get your kicks on Route 66 One of the most brilliant shows to emerge from the 60s Route 66 was famous for its catchy Nelson Riddle theme song intriguing characters topdrawer writing and stellar guest star appearances This classic and original road trip Drama was one of the most highly rated of its era and also established the Corvette as an American icon
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PianoVocalGuitar Artist Songbook A collection of songs from Linda Ronstadts collaborations with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra Includes songs from three albums Lush Life For Sentimental Reasons and Whats New Songs include Skylark Am I Blue My Funny Valentine Ive Got a Crush on You and more
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