What do cats, donuts, kids, Courtney Love, yoga and fresh deli produce have in common? All have captured the attention of James Servin, a journalist whose articles have appeared in GQ, House & Garden, Black Book, The New York Times, British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, among other publications. During the last year, he decided that he would cheer himself up by writing a happy poem every day. Most of the time, he was able to. In the spirit of Louisa May Alcott and Grandma Moses, Servin offers these (mostly) cheerful poems. The idea was not to tune out reality, but to recognize the beauty that exists alongside everything else that's trying to get our attention. Staying positive in the real world almost requires a certain kind of defiance - and that's what this sweet-yet-knowing collection of poems is all about.

Radical Sentimentality

Literature & Fiction

Servin, James

Poetry

Epigraph Pub

A sense of humor is what lead me to my eventual career choice, funny bartender, and then, finally, New Yorker cartoonist. And a sense of humor is why, having edited 400 books of my own cartoons, I was asked to pull together the collection you now hold in your hands. My assignment? Contact varied and interesting contributors living or working in this area we love, the Hudson Valley, then beg them to come up with funny material. The response was truly astounding, even to a jaded jaguar man like myself. The brilliant conductor/writer/college president Leon Botstein is here, along with the legendary singer/songwriter/rocker Graham Parker. Writer/poet/professor Robert Kelly shares a laugh, as does (out of slashes-must use alliteration) local literary luminary Mary Gaitskill, chiming in with a truly hilarious cartoon (who knew?). We have stars of stage and screen: Denny Dillon, Mary Louise Wilson, and Lou Trapani, to name a few. Rounding things out is a bevy of cartoonists and writers, artists, and poets, and whether you prefer a sly, knowing grin, a satisfied chuckle, or a full-out braying guffaw, all will make you laugh. So enjoy already. And don't forget to tip your bartender.

Some Delights of the Hudson Valley

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

A place where young Americans can seek poetic magic in the winding streets of a beautiful city. The museums, the cafés, the parks. An artist like Lucy can really enjoy Paris in January. If only she can stop griping at her mother. This comic journal details a mother and daughter¿s month-long stay in a small apartment in the fifth arrondissement. Lucy is grappling with the onslaught of adulthood. Her mother faces fifty. They are both dealing with their shifting relationship. All the while, they navigate Paris with halting French and dog-eared guidebooks.

French Milk

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Knisley, Lucy

Regional & International

Vanessa, a freelance writer who grew up in Spain, is fleeing the pain of an unraveling relationship when she goes to her grandmother's house on Canada's east coast, near Oak Island. Here her discovery of a 400-year old diary written by a failed Spanish Dominican monk rekindles her obsession with an international, multi-million dollar treasure hunt that has drawn investors, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Canada, the United States and Europe for more than two hundred years. Vanessa's arrival at a new solution to the mystery, by learning how to see beyond the barriers of reason, plunges her into an underworld from which "there is no turning back, where the rules that run the surface world do not apply..."

The Oak Island Affair

Bow, Jane

Literary

Told in full color, charming, literary/graphic/comic form, this is the story about a girl who meets an apple, a snowman and a refrigerator one cold day. Each holds forth to her on a particular wisdom about hunger, passion or love.

Heart: Seed Snow Circuit

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

My Life of Turmoil is an intimate portrait of a man and his family, and of the generation that spawned the Baby Boom. Wenig's nearly photographic memory gives us a detailed picture of an energetic America where anything was possible for someone with enough motivation. However, even though this is a compelling and meticulous memoir, the deeper intention of the book is to warn the world about the threat posed by anti-Semitism and Islamofascism. Larry Wenig is a man of passionate opinions, and many readers may disagree or take offence at some of them. But whatever your thoughts about his assessment of the world situation, you will agree that Larry Wenig is a man of immense courage and conviction, a survivor with a harrowing but inspiring tale to tell and a warning to deliver. In this book, he has succeeded in doing both.

My Life of Turmoil

Biographies & Memoirs

Wenig, Larry

Historical

In our quest for the essence in life, interest seems to go out mainly to change and improvement, and many a one has the idea that, by striving for change, a real change may actually take place. But is that so? In the talks with Alexander Smit it is made very clear, that the very urge for self-improvement and change has become one of man's main obstacles for realizing his true nature. On the one hand, this urge is based on ideas and an idea can never contain the reality. On the other hand, self-improvement and the fixation on change are themselves causing man's inner conflict to continue. In the confrontation with a teacher who is not bound by ideas, it is possible to come to an immediate recognition of our original nature, as a result of which the manifestation, i.e. body, mind and feeling, may be accepted completely. Alexander Smit whose final guru was Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is deeply rooted in the age-old tradition called 'Advaita'(Non-duality), which has been transmitted from teacher to disciple. At first sight no specific, recognizable method seems to be imparted here - rather, any such method seems to be undermined. But on closer study the authentic Advaita appears to be there, as bright as a diamond. Only a truly original transmittance, not based on memory, can be a help in the realisation of the Authentic within ourselves. The present book 'Consciousness' contains a selection from the numerous talks in which the oral transmission of this Authentic or Original in man takes a central place.

Consciousness: Talks About That Which Never Changes

Smit, Alexander

Religion & Spirituality

It is our intention to help you realize your full potential by guiding you through the mechanism of spirit. From our perspective it is simple. You have two main tools and the rest is a variation on this theme. The first is love, and the second is intent. These two are the vehicle and the fuel. You contain all you need, and you create what you need when you are in the now. When you are walking hand in hand with your breath, feeling your heartbeat, you are powerful. The joy comes from being you with you. You are vibrating instruments. To yourselves, you appear solid, but to us you are a vibration. We see you in terms of your colors, we see you in term of your light, we see you in terms of the shapes that surround you, and we can hear your melody. You are a giant orchestra and pyrotechnic display, combined. You are beautiful to us; you are magnificent in every way. When a human plants a seed of enlightenment, all around will begin to see the light. Light does not have an agenda. Light does not try to convince anyone of its attribute. Light just reveals what is there. It is an awesome power to realize your oneness and to set an intention to vibrate at a higher frequency. Discovering your true purpose and your oneness will manifest a bridge of light that will open the path to a new consciousness. And so be it.

Conversation With Angels

Self-Help

Ashuah, Dror B.

Personal Transformation

Posing, snoozing, stretching, staring and other delights of the feline lifestyle are documented in poems by James Servin, whose last collection, Radical Sentimentality, introduced readers to the fabulous kitty foursome: Melanie, Andy, Toby, and Moses. Let the language of Purr (with an occasional meow thrown in for good measure) welcome you again into their sweet, sleepy world. In Part Two, "The Human Parade," people-watching takes a playful spin. A New York-based journalist, Servin has recently contributed stories to Vogue Living, Martha Stewart Living, and Page Six Magazine. He is the features editor of BlackBook magazine.

Purr

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Becoming Fire: A Freudian Psychoanalyst's Spiritual Journey shows us how to synthesize spiritual beliefs and science, our inner lives and our work in the world. We share the journey of an ordinary person who discovers the extraordinary-faith in God-amidst the atheism of the Freudian path. We share the triumph of grace as we follow Dr. Severino through personal tragedy and loss to joy. We find inspiration for healing our mind and nurturing the soul, hope for inner peace despite our turbulent times, encouragement to move from fear to love of all, and pleasure in reading a story well told. Sally K. Severino, MD is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Dr. Severino is certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association and served as the first woman president of the American College of Psychoanalysts. She is grounded in the Christian contemplative tradition, has served on the Board of Directors for The Contemplative Center of St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a Felician Associate of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Province in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Becoming Fire

Severino, Sally

Christian Books & Bibles

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