With a desire to help others build a serene and genuine relationship with their sacred selves, professional counselor and inspirational speaker Linda Bovolotto combines poems and essays from previously published collections with newly-created poems that she hopes will help others imagine a harmonious bridge between their inner and outer worlds. Exploration of the heart with acceptance, compassion, and grace is at the center of Linda’s personal and professional life and she shares her simple and insightful messages that invite others to sail with her to unchartered waters where the voice from within asks to be heard; to watch in amazement with her as the timing of life’s synchronistic moments reveal their purpose; and to stay by her side and linger awhile amidst the beauty available in the now.

For those ready to open their hearts, An Invitation awaits …

It was just one day after Lindsay Collier's wife of forty years, Jan, lost her battle with ovarian cancer that a beautiful rainbow surrounded their home in upstate New York where family members were gathered to celebrate her life. Since that time there have been many amazing experiences that have provided some very compelling proof that Jan is not very far away. And Lindsay, a former engineer (engineers always need proof), is not one who is prone to fantasy which makes these occurrences all the more believable. He also tells about some other rather amazing experiences that he and his family have had following losses of other loved ones. These stories alone will make a believer out of you. But there is much more!

Lindsay also found that, as he related these stories to friends and associates, he would often find that they would frequently offer their own stories about how lost loved ones had made contact with them. The stories were amazing and revolved around everything from dragonflies to birds to lights and clocks changing to things appearing out of nowhere. There are more than twenty-five of these included in the book, all of which will leave you feeling very good - and a little less lonely for those you have lost.

Lindsay made a commitment to learn as much as he could from his loss and to help others to find ways to survive their loss. He has spoken to a number of bereavement groups about how to survive loss and shares these insights in Jan's Rainbow. His suggestions and ideas on dealing with loss come from true experience. Before taking early retirement, Lindsay was the Creative Thinking Guru for Kodak so his ideas tend to be different. As he says, "Losing a loved one is a life-changing experience and it requires some very creative thinking to get through it." There are some wonderful, and very different, tips for dealing with loss included that will ease the journey through the bereavement process. Included are ways to re-frame your thinking, how to use positive humor in your healing, and the use of metaphors to expand your thinking or finding innovative ways to survive, and much, much more.

This book is a must for anyone who has lost a loved one or knows of someone who has. It is the ultimate "feel good" book for helping people to deal with losing a loved one. You'll cry, you'll laugh, and you'll be lifted to a new level of hope. A substantial portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to Gilda's Club of Rochester (New York), an organization built in memory of Gilda Radner which provides help to women with cancer.

A great dramatic, unusual, true story of a man's fight against running away from people. When all else failed he turned to the dead - and not in vain!!

The 'Journey' begins with gentle memories of childhood, and the inquiring mind of a boy who loves discovering the spiritual and physical world around him. He seeks answers, not realizing how deep and profound some of the questions are.

The story is told of struggles to live and love, and the difficulties and uncertainties encountered along the path from childhood through adulthood.

Happiness often gives sway to affliction, tragedy, and narrow escapes, but the optimism carried over from the buoyant shoulders of youth bear the man through the physical and emotional roller coaster of his life. Ultimately, the questions and uncertainties of his life are answered through a series of dramatic revelations.

Clearing Your Karma before the Shift presents God's message of love and peace at a time when Earth is experiencing increased violence and chaos. People looking for God's peace will discover healing tools designed to clear their fears. Earth experiences that created fear, anger, hatred and physical violence are explained.

Fears specifically related to your karma are also explained. Karma involves repeated life experiences when lessons are not learned. A method for clearing the fears related to your karma is presented and the reason for clearing your karma is explained.

Clearing you karma now will allow you to live in a higher dimension after the Shift. Presently, two Earth variables are changing. Earth's rotation is decreasing and Earth's frequency is increasing. In less than twenty years, these two variables will cause part of Earth to change to a higher dimension. People who clear their karma will live in the higher dimension, where there will be more love, compassion and peace, and no physical violence.
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This is a vision about ultimate Femininity and the part it plays in the creation of the Universe. This very simple prophecy is derived from the evidence that lies before us. For example it traces a sacred link beginning when teams of Physicists journey into space, and through the Forces of Nature come face to face with the Blessed Trinity. On the journey we meet Larry and Everina who is a cadet on board the good ship Callisto as it hurdles outwards into the unknown. We meet Hiroshi and Jill, who marry while inParadiseand hoping the bond will hold when they return to earth. Listen in bewilderment to Spirinda (The Holy Spirit) as she relates her great fete - the production of her loving Universe to be cherished and saved at all cost, despite the threats from a cruel Ibis. This story is a bold proposal representing the most likely order of events that may lie ahead, while also attempting to answer many questions, yet giving great hope to humanity.

All people hold on to life and hope to find the beauty so often hidden from them. They fail to understand that the beauty they seek surrounds them at all times. Beauty is in all of life, not just the ''happy times'' but what one might consider the ''hard times'' as well. How wonderful to be entitled to live even for a short time and know such feelings as love, hate, joy, sadness, beauty, sorrow, and all the feeing that make us human. This is poetry. Life is a book of poetry. Each day we wake and start a new page and do not understand that we are all poets.

We create what we will be. We see beauty in a half dead tree or we cut it down. We talk to God on our level and shake when we hear his name. Choose your life, create your own poetry, find love and beauty in all things. Love while you can.

"The average person is asleep, enculturated, unaware of the greater possibilities that could be his. Focused by family, friends and the media he is immersed in a group mind-set. It seems all so natural, but in comparison to what could be, there is so much to learn and become."

-George Norwood

Upon awakening my eyelids are heavy -more so than ever before. I attribute this to the medication which is minimal yet not sufficient; I can recall a time without medication. I traveled much lighter then and maybe that was my only time of innocence. The anxiety and depression have exacerbated and nothing seems to be adequate in lifting them from me now. Although I have always experienced a day or two in the dumpster, it has been quite tolerable and seemed to pass over. For every action there is a reaction, correct? This makes sense to me. Fluctuating hormones? It could be. But the truth of the matter being, it is no longer that simple; I am now in the eye of the storm sheltered only by paper and pen.

From the Author

I offer this collection of poems to you, the reader. I know I'm not alone anymore in my thoughts and feelings. And if I can reach anyone who is ''locked-up'' inside as I was - then I know God's work is being done. I was shy and sadden much of my life and was afraid to talk to anyone about how I felt. So when I was alone I would sit and write poems. This is my way of ''self expression.''

Today I know I'm not a 'bad person', I'm just me. I have learned to live, laugh, and enjoy life as it comes. If you are out there, feeling as I have, just remember this, You Are Not Alone...May God bless and keep you.

Ruth Marie Lamson