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My wife and I have been married for fifty-three years. We have two grown children and six grandchildren, all girls. I recently retired from Hospital and First Responder Chaplaincy with Fire and Police. This volume is about my experiences as a crisis chaplain.Over the years, I have written simple poetry for family and friends. While preaching in ten countries, I have sent email logs of the day's events. During the COVID-19 crisis, I was encouraged to write a page or two on subjects unrelated to COVID-19 and email it to select hospital staff.Combining these elements, we present Casting Shadows at Midnight: Poetry, Musings, and Writings of a Crisis Chaplain.Many of the poems are written to my Bride of fifty-three years. Some were written while riding with the police and fire departments, and others were generic.In the Musing section, we share thoughts and impressions from multiple crisis scenarios. A sampling of these Musings includes impressions from overseas travels teaching Chaplaincy.Writings are items that came out of the COVID-19 crisis.The reader will find a little humor, light drama, and theology, along with personal notes and tidbits that mean something to me. I must admit that I'm neither a skilled comedian nor detailed enough to produce a classic mystery novel. I'm also not an expert theologian who can write a heavy volume to settle the inerrancy question that has plagued people for years.However, I am knowledgeable enough to write about topics that interest many readers. Some of the writing is deeply emotional and personal. The poetry will not win many awards but will be heartfelt.Born in Collin County, Texas, Rickey grew up in a tiny town of 254 residents. There were sixteen in his high school graduating class. He attended East Texas Baptist College for two years and then transferred to Dallas Baptist College, where he met his bride, Julie. Their marriage is almost fifty-three years long and growing.He and Julie pastored churches in Missouri and Texas. He became a chaplain with the Plano Police Department, continued with the McKinney, Texas Police Department, and finally retired from the Department of Public Safety as a Chaplain and the Dallas Police Department as a chaplain trainer.Undeterred by the demands of his career, Rickey pursued further education, earning a master's degree from Luther Rice Seminary and a doctorate from Master's International School of Divinity. These academic achievements have equipped him to focus on his current role, providing chaplaincy services to patients and their families.Since retiring from Hospital Chaplaincy, Rickey has enjoyed grandchildren. His son Stephen has two marvelous stepdaughters, and his daughter Christy has two beautiful sets of twin girls. The bigs are identical, and the littles are fraternal.

A Montana Feud brings back all the rugged and passionate characters of the Rodeo in the Blood series for another drama-filled adventure. Fans of thrilling rodeo rides and the complexities of human relationships will find this story absorbing.During the pandemic shortened 2020 rodeo season, former rivals, Rusty Blackstone and Warren Weston, join forces to pursue their rodeo dreams. At a rodeo in Chinook, Montana, Rusty accidentally reignites a dormant feud between his father and rodeo producer Jake Augustine. Rusty is lucky to survive the ensuing turmoil.Meanwhile, Warren battles his ex-wife, Jenny, for a portion of his rightful inheritance. Throughout, Rusty, Warren, and Jenny struggle with the new arrangement to share their son, Todd. Warren battles to care for his invalid mother. Unexpected violence mars Rusty and Amanda's horseback wedding.Harlan, the only man they all trust, does his best to help them through everything.

Georgie Holbrook created this evaluation to prove her findings with over 2000 people. Living one's passion is measured by the 'inherent story of your health' being in alignment with your 'external lifestyle.' She has unearthed her discovery for you to have this opportunity to prove to yourself now to live in harmony with your authentic self.Imagine your health and lifestyle evaluation as a pair of bicycle wheels. You will have the visual opportunity in 3 simple steps to see quickly what types of reality wheels you have created, which for most people, is an eye-opening experience. Are your wheels slowly being deflated from lack of importance or vital understanding? Have your wheels been spinning in a robotic daily routine showing up in mild to extreme health issues? Or when asked if your life most days are joy-filled, you rethink the question, and say 'yes' when you mean 'no?'SCORE YOURSELF is a rare opportunity to explore your greater health and happiness. Learn 7 ways your body speaks in a language inviting change. Over 2000 people had these 7 health issues in common. Georgie says this is not normal, these can actually be prevented and healed.A major surprising fact, over 2000 people had 10-20 health issues out of 27 giving them personalized feedback to consider taking their health seriously. No one had none! Learn the underlying cause, and do not ignore these significant messengers. Consider these signs as the love language of your soul getting your attention to embrace natural solutions and take the time to make healthy changes.Learn how trial and error remedies leave you distrusting your body.Explore reasons why one rarely heals if they have an internalized quiver.Understand how emotions manifest in physical health issues as a language.Discover how health challenges can be 80% emotional and be reversed.Ask yourself, what areas of your life work really well? What areas do you feel can still be improved if you could understand what is required to make changes? With detailed understanding, you have the opportunity to change and fall in love with your life.Once the evaluation is completed and scored, you can take small steps and pick areas you want to improve on. First, you will understand why making this improvement is vital. Second, when you experience the benefits - you will start building self-confidence in the way you physically and emotionally feel and want to make healthier choices. This evaluation will prove that nature by design has answers, and the intelligence within you has been doing healing and repair since the day you were born. Believe always that nothing is impossible to improve and heal.Georgie shares from her own experience. She learned that to honor her Inherent Purpose in life, her body as her friend had to redirect her life during a 7-year devastating health challenge, having facial deformity and near blindness. She self-healed, having been given a second chance, has helped hundreds of people learn natural principles which align with the harmony of their soul that transformed their lives. Creating for them endless possibilities for successful living lifestyles that complement their purpose and reason for being alive. Remember the life you save, maybe your own.

The dance between words on a page has the ability to move us in many directions. How we react to those words, both as a reader and a writer, tells more about ourselves than we might think.This book is a collection of poems ranging from Space to Earth to Family - from the vastness of the Universe to the intimacies of interpersonal relationships. Life, and the meaning of life, is many things to many people. Examine our existence. Examine ourselves. Can we draw many parallels? Maybe.Whether our lives are touched by poetry or not, words have staying power beyond pen on paper, words spoken aloud.It is not always what we write that carries weight in our lives, but what we don't write - the pauses, the spaces between where we stop - the unwritten words. Truths often live between those lines.

JD is a pirate who wants to see the world and bakes apple pies. He doesn't steal or kill, yet his crew loves him. JD encourages his pirate friends to learn a new way to do things in The Apple Pie Pirate book by Suzanne Pollock.

The reader will experience Libya's oil boom and a brief on exploration techniques, a walk through an Arab Medina, a description of the world's largest desert, a belly dance through the eyes of the young bachelor, flights over the Mediterranean and once in Sicily some complications including a torrid love affair, and the consequences of life changing decisions. This story combines adventure, history, travel, intrigue and romance into a fun 'wonder what will happen next reading experience. A portion of this story is based on the author's personal experiences in Libya in the 1960s.

Uncle Eyeon's discovery is one of the Adventures of Frrug.Uncle Eyeon shows Frrug and his friends what he has discovered about iron rocks. He can make things from them by melting them on a fire.Frrug and his friends decide to go into the cave where Uncle Eyeon found the iron rocks to get some of the rocks.The cave is a maze - which you follow a track and you can go around the page to the next page.The cave has prehistoric creatures to avoid.Can you help Frrug, and his friends find the iron rocks and then get the rocks back to Uncle Eyeon?When Uncle Eyeon receives the rocks, he makes Frrug and his friends a special friends forever badge.

Join Bobby as he explores Cape Cod with old friends and new in this exciting sequel to Robby the Rolling Rock.From seals to whales, and boats to bridges, Bobby shows us the best way to travel is with a bird's, in this case a swan's, eye view.

"Madstones" is a new collection including six works of fantasy and science fiction, representing several different constructs - short stories, a stage play, a screenplay, and a prose poem."Rama with the Ax," a short story, opens the collection, pitting a sinister stage magician, his undead assistant, and an alien god-beast from beyond time against a black man with a horn and his blues brothers. Who will win this bizarre battle of the bands?"Doom of the Autochthon" is a fantastic short story, set in another world, another time. If you've ever been inclined to be angry at the sun, this one is for you. Corruption and Empire were never like this before!"Retro Beach Party" is a screenplay. Check out what happens to these otherwise perfectly normal college students when a bale of contraband washes ashore during spring break. And when extraterrestrials crash this shindig, things get really wild. Remember, it all comes from the sixties, kids. This one is a trip in time back to those halcyon days of yore, and a reminder of how hard it is to laugh in these times."Hurdy-Gurdy Rondo" is a play in one act for the theater of the absurd. What do we really know about the past? We may know more as science marches onward. But not everybody sees these things the same way. Can't we all just...get along?"The Eidolon of Clay" is a prose poem with a historical setting, passing fleetingly into the realm of fantasy upon the finding of a forgotten piece of statuary. Times change, cherished ideas change, but the human heart?"The Hilbert Hotel," a short story, closes the collection. In it we learn along with our heroine that there are many infinities and that some are bigger than others, and what it actually takes to change the world. The answer may surprise you!"Madstones" will appeal to readers from eighteen to eighty who like imaginative fiction with wit as well as a sense of wonder. "Madstones" is six zircons in the rough, hair of the dog that bit you for the psyche.

After surviving a lifetime of abuse, Anna Madison, and her daughter Meg, are starting a new life filled with promise and hope.Having realized their dreams of building a safe home for abandoned and abused children, they now find themselves facing the eventuality of it being destroyed.But the sudden, unexpected appearance of an arrival from Anna's childhood, provides them with the assurances needed to save their home, as well as the tools needed to destroy the person responsible for the years of violence they endured.To accomplish that though, Anna and Meg must resort to using the same manipulation and abuse tactics wielded by their tormentor. It's a task that questions whether their need for vengeance is stronger than their desire to leave the past behind.

Larry Cashman dreamed of living in the tropics. Having few redeeming qualities, it was unlikely he could escape from New York City. Through uncanny good luck, he lived in Southeast Asia and Hawaii. Read his story in The Cashman Chronicles.

This is the biography of an internationally known business owner, consultant, and writer who began her career as an educator and is one who believes that we should never stop learning.

Hi. I'm Marissa Sanlier. Up until a few days ago, I was a twenty-year-old girl living with my great, great... maybe a few more greats... aunt in Pennsylvania. She died... mysteriously... and left me everything. Her fortune, her corporation, and this huge estate.But she also left me a note. That note led me to secrets that dated back thousands... tens of thousands of years and laid to rest the question of where we came from, why we were here, and who made us this way.I stumbled onto an ancestry of assassins dedicated to seeing the innocents remain free, and ensuring the plots of secret societies hidden in the shadows never come to pass. Secret societies that always existed, clouded in conspiracy theories, but whose history dates back to the birth of mankind! My great aunt trained me from a toddler to one day take her place... unknown to me... and I was now supposed to simply accept her role as guardian? The choice is clear. I could fade into a privileged lifestyle, ignore the genetic enhancements passed on to me by dead parents, and watch the world fall slowly into chaos, slavery, and total subjugation by those working in the shadows. Or I could take up the mantle of my ancestors and become...The Hawk!

In the last age, Fanir, the oldest and wisest of the Knowledge Dragons, sealed himself and his last clutch of eggs within the protective casing of Diamond Glass. All other Dragons mysteriously vanished at that moment, plunging the land into turmoil and despair. The once-mighty Dragons slipped into the fabric of myth and legend, their tales woven into the very essence of the realm. However, the time approached when they would return and reclaim their rightful place as protectors and enlighteners of the land.Cassandra, a Glassblower's apprentice from a village deep in the marshes, is unexpectedly thrust into the world of Energy Wielders and Legendary Dragons. As she begins to understand her unique ability to sense the ebb and flow of the world's energies, her path converges with that of Adriana and Bolkin, emissaries from the fabled Azurite Tower. Along the way she discovers she is one of five powerful Energy Wielders who must come together to fulfill the prophecies. On the journey, Cassie discovers and makes friends with a Little Dragon, the first to be seen in over 1000 years. This convergence marks the beginning of her journey, not just to pave the way for the Return of the Dragons but also to discover her true self.Together with her friends, Cassie embarks on a perilous quest to find the Dragon Prophecies, which hold the key to the Dragon's return. Their adventure is fraught with danger as they navigate treacherous paths, evade malevolent forces, and survive sinister energy attacks. Undeterred, the companions ventured into the streets of a forsaken city, its corridors haunted by the tortured souls of ages past. As whispers of ghosts echo through the derelict corridors, their resolve is tested when a vile curse afflicts one of their own. United in their quest, the devoted heroes devise a plan to lift the curse and liberate the spirits of the trapped. In the darkness of the forsaken city, they unearthed the coveted Dragon Prophecies, a beacon of hope for a world shrouded in despair.

The stories in Gettin' High take place mainly in New York City and Puerto Rico, though three are set in rural Michigan where the author grew up. They transpire during the turbulent decade of the 1960s. As the title suggests, many characters smoke weed and experience its eerie and pleasurable effects. That is one current running through several stories, though not a major theme. Rather, the thematic anchor is the search for love and meaning in a changing, transient world.The characters are generally involved with music, as performers or students, and what it means to become a professional musician. Music as a means to communicate truly with another person is also an important facet of the plot lines in the stories, whether this is on a river tour or on a formal concert stage, and the characters strive to find the essence of their art in various ways. Of course, music goes beyond words, and this musical quest is what propels many of the characters' lives and loves. Also, the real-life business of music is another salient aspect for character development.Three of the stories are set in the rural landscape of the author's youth. Here the theme of the demise of the family farm is set forth against the backdrop of the long transition from an agrarian to an urban life style which has taken place throughout the 20th century. All of the stories in Gettin' High were written many years ago while the author himself was working as a professional musician in the Puerto Rico Symphony. As such, they may seem somewhat dated, since this was a time before iphones, the internet, TikTok and social media. People actually needed to communicate more directly with one another, in a more intimate fashion. And this is reflected in the plots and dialogue of the stories. The roles of men and women were also, for better or worse, more rigidly defined. And this perspective undoubtedly finds its way into the portrayal of the characters as they seek to explore new boundaries and experiences--from the farm to the concert stage to smoking weed--a long trajectory set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war.Though these stories were mostly written over 50 years ago, the author believes that they are still relevant in today's world. The subject of abortion figures in A Love Story as well as interracial love. Also, a forgotten incident of child abuse rears its head in The Hermit as well as performance anxiety in The Recital. The racism still lingering in the South of the early 1960s, and which America is still struggling to truly confront, plays a role in Milly-A Fantasy. And undoubtedly, the transformative potential of music has not diminished over the years--whether it be jazz, the folk music of the 1960s, today's Hip-Hop and Rap or the classical music of the formal, concert stage. Humanity still seems to thrive on music's inherent message of hope and its curative power. Finally, it is the author's hope that, at the very least, readers will find something of themselves in the characters of these tales as they seek out life's ephemeral joys, happiness and fulfillment in today's challenging world.

Perhaps Harrison Hamblin should have known when that body hit the Land Rover's hood. With a huge, unexpected thump. As it slid hesitantly off the hood, next hitting the road's feeble rock barrier, and tumbling into the ravine.Maybe he should have known what his colleague, the Navajo genius Michael ThreeHats, explained. "As my brothers the Apache's would have done. A warning. Turn around, leave our land, or meet our challenges." Harry was naively eager to meet this latest test. So he has accepted the challenge of carrying unknown, probably contraband freight to his old stamping ground, Dar es Sabir (Door of patience). And putting up with the irritable band of Tuaregs who seem be trailing him constantly.And other tests and challenges: Encountering excitable Tuaregs, odd, half-starved pygmies, Jean d'Argent his former manservant, now a successful entrepreneur, a past love and old friends and acquaintances in Dar es Sabir, now a newly declared city-state renamed the Republic of Independent People. The RIP is the fabrication of Wahid, the former revolutionary who conquered Sabir on the third try. And Harry even admired him as a kind of Robin Hood before this revolution.But things had changed. Wahid had become tyrannical, potential foes were "counting dunes," (a euphemism for summary execution), and his father's rumored lost treasure was foremost on his mind. Driving all his decisions. Bad ones.Harry has acquired the name, passport and identity of a German arms dealer who was coincidentally his bunk-mate as he sailed to Algeria.We also soon learn that Wahid is a practicing pedophile, that the reputedly honest judge has compromised his own integrity, and that the beautiful Amina (protagonist for three years in Harry's dreams), has married Wahid but has failed to bear him children. In the background lurks Alain, evil twin to Antoine, the former police chief.