![]() ![]() ![]() Hopcke is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in private practice in Berkeley, California. ![]() Listen to an interview with Robert Hopcke on the Jungianthology Podcast By using real people’s experiences in relationships, careers, dreams, and spiritual lives, we will see in this lecture how meaningful coincidences enable us to find depth and beauty in the stories we live. In this lecture, we will examine four aspects of synchronistic events: their acausality, the emotional impact they have, their symbolic nature, and their occurrence during transitional times. The coincidences nearly all of us have experienced in our lives (synchronicity, to use Jung’s term) are meaningful because our lives are a story with a beginning, middle, and an end, with unexpected plot twists and turns where fascinating and mysterious characters enter and leave. There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kat goes full bore reporter and it's on! She is not going to let anything stand in her way of getting to the truth. In spite of being from 2 worlds and never feeling solidly a part of either, she is a great reporter and when her traditional customs and Navajo faith is threatened by way of a death of a close friend and a looting of an ancient burial site. In a nutshell this book is about Native American Katherine James a sheltered but strong member of the i-team who walks straddling 2 worlds: that of the one she was born to as a Native American on a reservation and that of a caucasian woman (thanks to her mother's failed affair with a white man). This is a rare feat for many authors to pull off. Though focusing on a team of smart, focused, die-hard award-winning journalists, each H & H is very different, their likes, dislikes, how they live, their backstories all read as if they are separate and independent. ![]() Clare is that each book is very different. ![]() In Naked Edge, she has kept up her great style of writing. ![]() I read the first i-Team book and was a bit turned off but books 2 & 3 had me hoping that this author would continue to turn out well developed, HOT, rich stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (The other three are told in The Mating Season (1949), Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963), and Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971).) With this horrible fate hanging over him, Bertie repairs to Totley Towers (the aforementioned joint in Gloucestershire) to have the first of his four novel-length adventures connected with that place and its inhabitants. ![]() The cow-creamer falls into enemy hands, jeopardizing a silver-fancying uncle’s delicate digestion, as well as Bertie’s chances of being invited to future dinners cooked by the best French chef in all England. The caper doesn’t come off, thanks to a badly-timed brush with a beak (that is, a magistrate) who had previously fined him 50 pounds for conspiracy to steal a policeman’s helmet. In the center of it all is a fashionable fathead named Bertie Wooster and his endlessly resourceful gentleman’s gentleman-Jeeves.īertie’s crisis begins when his Aunt Dahlia commissions him to sneer at a silver cow-creamer (don’t ask, just Wiki it). ![]() This novel, first serialized in New York and London newspapers in 1938, packs several “Jeeves and Wooster” short-stories’ worth of material into one wickedly dense weave of plot, every stitch of which you will feel in your side as the ridiculous heists, blackmails, rivalries, counter-plots, and romantic complications bearing down on one Gloucestershire manor reveal just how many different shades of laughter your body can produce. ![]() ![]() With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story. ![]() Jack Zipes’s introduction traces the history of the book’s reception and explores the tensions that Salten experienced in his own life-as a hunter who also loved animals, and as an Austrian Jew who sought acceptance in Viennese society even as he faced persecution. After the Austrian author Felix Salten sold the rights to his 1923 bestseller Bambi for a paltry 1,000, Walt is reputed. Bambi: A Life in the Woods, the 1922 novel by Felix Salten, first translated into English in 1928 by future Soviet spy Whitaker Chambers, begins when Bambi is born in the middle of a. ![]() Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious, and Bambi learns important lessons about survival as he grows to become a strong, heroic stag. The extent of Walt Disney’s grasp of the natural world remains unclear. Originally published in 1923, Salten’s story is more somber than the adaptations that followed it. ![]() This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator. Most of us think we know the story of Bambi-but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told.įor decades, readers’ images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film-an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature’s innocence-which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. ![]() ![]() ![]() “He used to be a pilot, so he spent his life in airports and big cities all over the world. “I think that’s the point.” Dad chuckled. Martin live way up here?” Maggie Rose asked. They looked ready to stand there all day. Dogs can always think of something fun to do, even on a rock. I looked, but there were no dogs and no squirrels, just a lot of big animals with curly horns on their heads, standing around on a big rock as if they were stuck. “Bighorn sheep!” Maggie Rose exclaimed, pointing out the window. “The air’s thinner up here, and it can’t hold the heat.” “That’s because we’re so high up,” Dad explained. ![]() “It’s funny, it was so warm at home and it’s so cold here.” Maggie Rose leaned forward to speak to Dad. Her skin smelled sweet, with another odor I thought of as “soft.” Her lap was a sweet, soft place. They told my nose that our car ride was taking us to a place called “Up in the Mountains.”ĭad was in the front seat of the car, and I was in the back with my girl, Maggie Rose. The smells coming in through the open window of the car were cool and clean. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes works exactly the way I intended it to. ![]() It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served. A painting on the wall of a comic book shop of 'Calvin and Hobbes.' ( Gianfranco Goria / flickr) Produced by Mythili Rao and Jillian Weinberger. ![]() If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. Salinger of comic stripsa recluse and legendary in the cartoon world, but rarely seen. The cartoonist previously explained that, while he's a big fan of Pixar animation, he has "zero interest in animating Calvin and Hobbes. The comic's popularity continues to this day, with creators paying homage to Calvin and Hobbes in everything from Bloom County comics to Marvel Studios' Loki series.ĭespite receiving multiple studio offers, Watterson has refused all attempts to merchandise Calvin and Hobbes or adapt the property outside the cartoon strips. The comic follows a mischievous but philosophical kid named Calvin and his best friend Hobbes - a stuffed tiger who Calvin regularly perceives as real and capable of human speech - as they go on various day-to-day adventures together. Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, which ran from 1985 to 1995, is wildly regarded as one of the most beloved newspaper comic strips of all time. ![]() Bill Watterson's Legendary Work on Calvin and Hobbes The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury. Calvin, cheeky, hyperactive and mischievous, and Hobbes, his cuddly toy tiger who, as far as Calvin is concerned is very much alive and kicking, are two of the. ![]() ![]() With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Hollandsworth's The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer brings this terrifying saga to life. For more than a decade, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth has researched this gripping tale of murder and madness that plays out like a well-crafted whodunit. At the time, the concept of a serial killer was unknown and unimaginable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis, a series of brutal murders rocked the burgeoning city and shook it to its core. Collins Award A New York Times Bestseller One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreīefore Romeo and Juliet, and Lancelot and Guenevere, there were Tristan and Iseult.Tristan and Iseult's story is one of honor, betrayal, jealousy, forbidden love, potions, Kings, Queens, etc. If you’re looking for a classic medieval tale, this one’s for you. There are moments that are far from PG, such as Iseult’s loyal maid pretending to be her and slipping into the King’s bed to sacrifice her ‘purity’ to him, in order to conceal Iseult having lost hers to Tristan, as well as Iseult being turned over to a mob of lepers who want to “have her in common”, but in general the story is told with great restraint, despite a plot containing such passion and violence. How well he describes everyone seeing the “Love terrible, that rode them”, as they simply can’t be apart. What a beautiful image Tristan conjures of a crystal chamber, between the clouds and heaven, filled with roses and the morning, where he would like to take Iseult. Bédier’s language is enchanting, and adds to his storytelling. Tristan is bearing Iseult across the sea to wed his King, when the two inadvertently drink a love potion that binds them forever, and leads them into adultery. ![]() The tale is of the brave young knight Tristan, and the fair lady with the ‘hair of gold’ Iseult, and it’s complete with honor and romance, battles with dragons, magic philters, court intrigues, and daring escapes. ![]() What a fantastic thing Joseph Bédier did here, reconstructing this story in 1900 from ancient French poems and other sources. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although they’re not my favourite characters ever, I enjoyed them nonetheless. While it is a retelling of The Little Mermaid, this book fell flat for me. Since I’m a big Disney fan, I’ve been looking forward to reading this book. Now Evie will do anything to save her friend’s humanity, along with her prince’s heart - harnessing the power of her magic, her ocean, and her love until she discovers, too late, the truth of her bargain. She can’t stay in Havnestad, or on two legs, unless Evie finds a way to help her. And, as the two girls catch the eyes - and hearts - of two charming princes, Evie believes that she might finally have a chance at her own happily ever after.īut her new friend has secrets of her own. That her own magic wasn’t so powerless after all. A witch.Ī girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. One feared, one royal, and one already dead.Įver since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Productions at the Sugar Maple Arts Playhouse are easy to cast, since all of the actors are shapeshifters!) But Chloe, the product of a mixed marriage between a sorceress and a mortal man seems to have inherited no magic at all. Other businesspeople in Sugar Maple are free to use their powers to create the inviting enchantments that delight tourists. Actually, the town has flourished as a haven for ordinary- looking people who only drop their mortal mufti amongst themselves, when their true natures and skills can shine - and a diverse group it is, what with the werewolves, selkies, wizards, faeries, shape-shifters, poltergeists, vampires, and trolls. ![]() Every knitter knows that Chloe's store is the place "where your yarn never tangles, your sleeves always come out the same length, and you always, always get gauge." Sounds perfectly magical, doesn't it? ![]() ![]() Sugar Maple, Vermont, is a lovely town that is distanced from the evils of the world as most of us know it - a haven for ordinary people who welcome tourists to their shoppes, the inn, the playhouse, the library, and the storybook charms of quaint New England.Ĭhloe Hobbs, owner of Sticks & Strings, provides tourists and townies with yarn, knitting instruction, and the kind of hand-knitted sample items that can tempt even the most stash-stuffed knitter to open her purse. ![]() |