What's the difference between being kind and being compassionate? How can we become more compassionate? And why can being compassionate be so difficult? Learn, along with Sam, answers to these and many other questions about this important character value.
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Greta's existence is fairly average, until she discovers that her husband is leading a double life. Once the shock subsides, can she find the courage to confront him, or will she do what she always does - stay quiet and keep the peace? Even if she chooses this route, is it possible to conceal the truth and pretend things are normal? When events take a startling turn, the decision might not even be hers to take...Liz Todd spends summers in Perthshire and winters in the south of Spain. She shares a love of walking and the outdoor life with her husband, Richard. She is currently working on her next novel ‘The Silent Judgment'.
Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford, begins her story as Lady of the Wardrobe to Queen Elizabeth. As such, she dresses the Queen with the help of Wrios, Earl of Southampton, who is rumoured to be one of the Queen's many sons; as indeed, it is his father, Beth's brilliant and eccentric husband Edward, Lord Oxford, who writes subversively and anonymously, attracting much enmity at Court. Desperate to have his plays performed and unable to publish under his own name, he borrows that of a minor player, Will Shaksper. With the spymaster Robert Cecil seeking to find and destroy Edward's incriminating works that could upend the succession itself, it lies with Beth to protect his work while drawn into a conspiracy from which there is no escape. Trying to save herself and all she holds dear, Beth pours her longing and her fear into writing poesy each midnight on her window ledge, beneath the stars. A dark tale of intrigue and rumour, incest and murder at the fascinating court of the greatest of Queens.
The year is 1614, and Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, still reels from the passing of Bethy. We know him as 'Wrios', the son of the Earl of Oxford and Queen Elizabeth, a man who should be king, but instead finds only disillusionment as a noble in the court of King James, fortyish, lonely, and bogged down completely by the weighty secrets of his past, especially the ancestral quest of his father, Edward de Vere. The Rose and the Sundry Grail builds upon book one, bringing back some of the great characters from the first, such as Wrios, Henry de Vere, Ben Jonson and Jack Swan and introduces a dynamic character with whom Wrios shares the ten-year span of the book, Lucy Morray, as well as the diabolical George Villiers, purported consort to King James. The work is exciting and tragic, heartfelt and adventurous, with characters that capture your imagination and allow you a glimpse of their souls. But it is also a story of love, betrayal, and redemption; the power behind those immanent truths arising from a quest for that which is greater than one's present self. This quest eventually takes them to the brink of death and to a place immersed in the beginnings of Christianity itself.
Once there was a duck who thought he was a lion. The lions thought he was Quackers, and that became his name. Sometimes Quackers was lonely. He dreamt of ponds while the lions went hunting. But when danger came, he did something no lion ever could. And Quackers learned that being a lion comes from your heart - not beak, webbed feet or wings.
Free spirits or conflicted souls? Three friends embark on a journey but where they end up is their choice.
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‘Spiralling Inwards, a collection of verse and things’ is a remarkable collection of writing produced over more than sixty years. It’s a fascinating, intriguing, engaging and humorous collection evoking an often joyful, often troubled, often profound response to life, from an author who has an abundance of creative energy. ‘Spiralling Inwards, a collection of verse and things’ is in effect a story of how we encounter and manage diverse feelings and experiences. It is a perfect book for dipping into and browsing. As the author says, ‘simple spirals of different shapes are the basis of life and more as in the helix of DNA’.