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Bish Denham

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July 2011


Bish Denham, whose mother’s side of the family has been in the Caribbean for over one hundred years, was raised in the U. S. Virgin Islands. She still has lots of family living there whom she visits regularly.

She says, “Growing up in the islands was like living inside a history book. Columbus named the islands, Sir Francis Drake sailed through the area, and Alexander Hamilton was raised on St. Croix. The ruins of hundreds of sugar plantations, built with the sweat and blood of slave labor, litter the islands. Then there were the pirates who plied the waters. It is within this atmosphere of wonder and mystery, that I grew up. Life for me was magical, and through my writing I hope to pass on some of that magic.”

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It's been stressful for me and my family and all my friends who live in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean. Venezuela is just 500 miles away and the actions taken by the current administration are destabilizing the whole region. I can't even imagine how the people in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao and fe

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A good book if you need a place to start in learning about Zen and meditation.
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The Road (1907). By by Jack London
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Wow. This is about memoir, an autobiography about London’s life on the road between the ages of about 16 to 20. The amount of living and adventure he packed into his mere 40 years of life is astonishing.

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A sweet innocuous, though sometimes banal and trite romance.

What I enjoyed most was the historical setting.
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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
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Interesting. I wouldn’t classify it as horror, so much as a psychological study.
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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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The beauty of Rilke’s phrasing, the way he stitched and wove words together, is undeniable.

This is an audiobook I can listen to again and again. Even though I am an old woman (older by over 20 years than he was when he died at age 51) his words reson
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I stumbled across this book quite by chance. I see that no one has read it or given it a review.

A nice collection of short stories. There’s a little bit of something for everyone from simple stories about ordinary people to sci-fi.

Good writing!!
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The Issue at Hand by Gil Fronsdal
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I wish… when I had first started exploring buddhism and meditation, all these many long years ago, that I had stumbled upon this book. It would’ve answered a lot of questions for me and made things a lot more simple.

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