Book Description
Companion to the beloved bestselling classic Circle of Stones, I Sit Listening to the Wind invites women everywhere to tap into the powers of interiority, regain the sacred, and create communities of support — in the process reimagining and remaking the modern world. Without coming to terms and seeking balance with their masculine side, Judith Duerk says, women can never reach the full potential of their feminine side. For those seeking balance between the masculine urge to do and the feminine desire to be, Duerk’s mixture of prose, poetry, and reflective questions creates a model for integration. Includes a reading group guide.
Customer Reviews:
A riveting flute solo in the symphony "Journey to Wholeness".......1998-12-29
Judith Durek's sensitive descriptions and testimonials give light to the tunnel. If you are on or just beginning the inner journey, this book will give comfort, guidance, and encourage you to find your own circle of women. This book and her first book "Circle of Stone" is essential on the journey home. I look forward to the next book in this series.
Customer Reviews:
Three Joe Leaphorn Mysteries.......2005-07-24
---"The Blessing Way"---
"He stirs, he stirs, he stirs, he stirs,"
"Among the lands of dawning, he stirs, he stirs.
The pollen of dawning, he stirs, he stirs.
Now in old age wandering, he stirs, he stirs.
Now on the trail of beauty, he stirs,
Talking God, he stirs..."
It is in the 1970's pre-cell phone where parallel lives take place. We have an Indian wanted for a stabbing who turns up dead. Not just dead but in the wrong place. Not the wrong place but in a mysterious way. There is also a team of archeologists looking into which craft (they just may find it). One archeologist seems to be missing. A strange Navaho has his hat stolen but the silver hat band left. A woman is coming to visit her fiancé is in for an adventure she did not count on. From all of this Joe Leaphorn must make some sort of sense.
It is the descriptiveness of Tony Hillerman that goes beyond the mystery to pant a picture of a different world that we get to glimpse in the process of reading.
Read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall ads a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
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---"Dance Hall of the Dead"---
The Fire God is missing
Twelve-year-old Ernesto Cata (Zuñi) is practicing to be the Fire God in a local ceremony. His best buddy George Bowlegs (Navaho) is a Zuñi wana-be.
Ernesto is missing and there is a pool of blood by his bike. The next day his buddy George runs off. It is up to Sgt. Joe Leaphorn to find the boys before anything happens to them (if it has not already.)
As with most of Hillerman's novels everyone has different agendas and stories that overlap. There are alleged stolen artifacts form and archeological dig, and possibly a drug interest. They may or may not interact. We also get a good dose of Zuñi culture, and a feel that we are in the area.
Hillerman is nice enough to leave sufficient clues to let you figure out the mystery before Leaphorn and you then get to watch as he finally comes around to your way of thinking.
Another book by Hillerman "The Boy who Made Dragonfly" further describes the dance hall of the dead (Kothluwalawa.)
Author's Note:
"In this book, the setting is genuine. The village of Zuñi and the landscape of the Zuñi reservation are depicted to the best of my ability. The characters are purely fictional. The view the reader receives of the Sha'lak'o religion is as it might be seen by a Navajo with an interest in ethnology. It does not pretend to be more than that."
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---"Listening Woman"---
A great cliff hanger
Joe Leaphorn can put the loose ends together even when no one else realizes there are loose ends. The story starts out with an old man being bludgeoned and later Leaphorn is intentionally almost rundown by a mysterious man in gold rimed glasses. He tries to tie these together. Then he uses an old robbery as an excuse to get out of a Boy Scout commitment and track down the antagonist. Needles to say the story gets more convoluted for everyone but Leaphorn.
This is an excellent story with the added plus of the description of the area and the Navaho that occupies this area. What seems at first to be over description later enhances the final scenes.
Speaking about the location and Navaho, even the schools, this story is even more enjoyable if you read "Seldom Disappointed" first. Tony describes how he comes by the plot and the people. He even goes out to locations first as research.
I have read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall adds a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
You'll Enjoy Hillerman's Flights of Imagination.......2000-07-17
In this volume, encompassing three novels, we are introduced to Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, educated at a White college yet living on the reservation, and discover some of the ways of the Dineh, the people. The subject novels -- "The Blessing Way," "Dance Hall of the Dead," and "Listening Women" were written between 1970 and 1978, and deal with the effects of jealousy, greed, rage, and revenge brought onto the Navajo reservation by outsiders. Hillerman has an unerring talent for using small bits of Indian culture to weave convincing stories laced with an inticate pattern of mystery.
From day one, Hillerman has been a successful mystery writer. He writes with integrity about the lives of the Southwest Indians (emphasis on the Navajo) with perception and understanding. Hillerman has won many fans with his series of mysteries but some in the Navajo nation are disturbed over a White author writing about their "ways" even though Hillerman doesn't get into secret tribal matters. Regardless, Hillerman has fostered a lot of good will for the Navajo, the Zuni, and the Hopi with his large audience of readers.
Over the years, the possibilities inherent in the mystery formula have become exhausted. Hillerman has developed, within the framework of the formula, a Navajo policeman who solves crimes with a mixture of modern and ancient skills and also educates readers about Navajo beliefs. Hillerman's stories don't challenge a reader's intellect. That isn't the author's intention. What he produces is a likable hero, descriptions of fabulous scenery, unobtrusive murders, and the absorbing lives of the Navajo. The author ably works the White and the Idnian worlds as he explains the reality of Whites and some off-reservation Indians intruding on the reservation and the resulting conflicts. In Hillerman's mysteries the reservation Indians always win.
The author's writing skills are evident as he mixes the acts and thoughts of different individuals smoothly and coherently in "The Blessing Way." The author employs McKee, a close friend of Leaphorn, to do most of the work. McKee deduces, faces danger, solves dilemmas, but Leaphorn actually ties the loose ends together at the finale. Leaphorn reveals clues but you'll be none the wiser unless you have some knowledge of Southwestern weather, fauna, hieroglyphics, Indian beliefs, and similar arcana.
The author uses the "Dance hall of the Dead," to really educate a reader in SW Indian lore. The central point to the story is an archeological excavation and the disruption brought by the White man to the reservation. Navajo mysticism pervades this murder mystery. We learn about the Beautiful Mesa Families, who elected to die when Kit Carson arrived in 1864; Zuni Indian spirits who join the Kachinas and become one of them; the Navajo Chindi who spread sickness and evil among the Dineh; and the Shalako Ceremony which grants fertility to crops and brings needed rain to the desert regions of the reservation.
In the "Listening Women," Hopi ways are introduced as are the Navajo concepts of -- Remaining in harmony with the universe; Navajo wolves identified as men and women who turn from harmony to chaos and assume the guise of Coyotes, Dogs, Wolves, and Bears in order to spread sickness among the Dineh; Disharmonious sand paintings which can cause death; and Destruction of tradtitional Kiowa medicine bundles when the Buffalo disappeared. While this quantity of information might seem daunting to a reader, author Hillerman allows Joe Leaphorn to solve a murder while smoothly inculcating a reader in Native American lore.
The author has applied a gentle and refined twist to the mystery formula by creating an intriguing product employing Southwest Indian lore, the masterful Joe Leaphorn, and a little murder or two wrappoed up in a pleasing package. Try Tony Hillerman's mysteries, you'll enjoy his flights of imagination.
My first Hillerman book, it made me buy all the others!.......1997-11-10
The Joe Leaphorn mysteries by Tony Hillerman have become one of my favorite reads. I never thought that I would be interested in mysteries set on an indian reservation but this book changed all that. After reading this book I found and read every Hillerman book I could find and watch the lists for new ones. I have also learned a lot about reservation life and have a new-found respect and understanding of what life is like for the American Indian today. Kudos to Tony Hillerman!
Average customer rating:
- Great listening
- Not her best, but not bad
- Hillerman does it again!
- I like this guy
- Early Leapthorn excels at Lore
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Book Description
The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold of a solution—and is greeted with the most violent confrontation of his career.
Download Description
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.
Customer Reviews:
Great listening.......2007-06-13
This cd was a nice mix of Native American culture, intrigue, and excitement. I won't even bother with abridged cds because they leave out too much.
Not her best, but not bad.......2007-03-10
It could have been better, but it wasn't a waste of time.
Hillerman does it again!.......2006-11-06
Navajo Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is challenged once again in this unique mystery, another masterpiece from Tony Hillerman.
I like this guy.......2006-08-27
I reviewed one of his books recently, with young Joe Leaphorn as the protagonist. This one was written much later, and "Legendary Lieutenant" Leaphorn comes out of retirement to look over Jim Chee's shoulder and maybe give him a complex. Hillerman has, over the years, given us some depth and texture in his characters and their interactions, and I always enjoy spending a bit of time with these folks. Still living on that slow Navajo time, and there's no crime in that. In this particular mystery, well, I have to say it. The mysteries and the plots aren't his strong suit. Nobody cares. It's a diverting read and you'll enjoy it. I did.
Early Leapthorn excels at Lore.......2005-09-30
This early Leapthorn novel must have passed me by before now. Later novels, both with Leapthorn and Chee, tend to emphasize the problems of dual cultures, but Leapthorn here is Navajo first, cop second. Since the case is about the alleged desecration of a ritual site, Joe interviews a traditional medicine woman attending ceremonial gathering. I enjoyed a glimpse of these rites as much as the solution to a cracking mystery involving Native American activists, straying Catholic priests and kidnapped Boy Scouts.
Book Description
Everyday life is loud with ringing phones, blaring TVs, and yelling children. Women find themselves longing for time away from it all so they can really hear God.
“But when I pored over the pages of Scripture,” says author Sharon Jaynes, “I discovered that some of God’s most memorable messages were not delivered while men and women were away on a spiritual retreat, but right in the middle of everyday life. He spoke to Gideon while he was threshing wheat and to shepherds while they were watching their flocks by night.”
Using wit, Southern charm, and wisdom, Sharon invites women everywhere to explore answers to the heartcry, “How can I hear the voice of God?”
Includes helpful study guide.
Customer Reviews:
Inspirational! She helps open one's eyes to God in action every day........2007-06-20
I thoroughly enjoyed Becoming a Woman Who Listens to God. It is obvious that Sharon Jaynes loves God and sees His hand in her daily activities. The author isn't trying to give a doctrinal statement on what the Bible says, she is helping the readers discover God as they go through the day.
The reason this book made an impact on me was that the author shares her personal experiences, both those that put her in a favorable light and those that don't. One of my favorites was when she watched the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. She wrote about a key segment of the film in which there is a fire where the bad guys are trying to obtain the jewel that will lead them to the ark. From this situation, Jaynes drew the analogy of 3 types of people and how they are seeking God. Since this is one of my favorite films I was instantly engrossed in the description. From her clear description of the 3 types of people I realized that God had indeed revealed truth to her through the movie. I have watched that movie several times and yet I never saw that analogy.
A second example that meant a lot to me was when she went to her son's school to meet with one of the teachers. After the meeting, God spoke to her as she watched a busload of handicapped students get off the bus. Later that day, her husband asked how the meeting with the teacher went. She said, "Oh, it was fine, but let me tell you about the one I had with God in the parking lot." It was good that she recognized God's voice through the situation, but it was awesome that she shared that experience with her husband. Immediately, I found myself asking "When was the last time I shared what God was teaching me with my hubby?"
If you want to know God better and be able to recognize His voice in the midst of a busy schedule, read this book. You will be glad that you did. I know that I am.
I Agree with PROCEED W/CAUTION.......2007-05-24
I must strongly agree with this last person's review. I also found that she talks about things from the Bible out of context. For example, she talks about Aquila & Priscilla teaching Apollos about Jesus. This author gives credit only to Priscilla (pg. 86) & not Aquila. If you look at Acts 18:26 it clearly states that Aquila & Priscilla (BOTH OF THEM) took Apollos into their home to teach them about Jesus. I have to agree that this author does not have a firm understanding of the Bible & its teachings.
Awesome Book!.......2006-02-09
This book made me think deeply about my relationship with God and how to listen to His voice each and every day. I laughed out loud while reading it and shed tears - God truly spoke to me through this book. I would have to say that for me it was life-changing. I highly recommend it and think it would make an excellent Bible study for women.
Proceed with caution.......2005-08-10
I would not recommend reading this book. Here is an excerpt of my notes on the first chapter.
p. 14 1 John 1:1 Ms. Jaynes says the `Word of life' is Scripture. The Word of Life is Jesus, not Scripture. In the beginning was Jesus, not Scripture. If she can make such a fundamental mistake, we need to be very careful taking any of her teaching/conclusions for granted.
I'm a bit dubious about her statement on that same page that the Bible is easy enough for a child to understand. Her statement suggests that anyone can pick it up, read it and understand it. God tells us over and over that only through the Holy Spirit can we understand His Word. It is "foolishness" to the unbeliever.
p. 18 Again...Logos she says is Scripture. Logos is Jesus.
A very shocking statement on p. 25 "that soft breeze upon your check is the Holy Spirit passing by." God is not a soft breeze on your cheek.
p. 25 When she says sometimes you read the Bible and don't get anything out of it and that's okay...it'll just store up for later. I'm not sure that's good teaching. If you're reading the Bible and not getting anything out of it, then ask God to reveal His truth to you. You should always be getting something out of it right then and there it seems to me.
And from reading Chapter 2 on the Holy Spirit, I'm not comfortable that this author has a firm understanding of who God is. I don't think she should be trying to teach others. This is dangerous ground.
Customer Reviews:
Three Joe Leaphorn Mysteries.......2004-11-02
---"The Blessing Way"---
"He stirs, he stirs, he stirs, he stirs,"
"Among the lands of dawning, he stirs, he stirs.
The pollen of dawning, he stirs, he stirs.
Now in old age wandering, he stirs, he stirs.
Now on the trail of beauty, he stirs,
Talking God, he stirs..."
It is in the 1970's pre-cell phone where parallel lives take place. We have an Indian wanted for a stabbing who turns up dead. Not just dead but in the wrong place. Not the wrong place but in a mysterious way. There is also a team of archeologists looking into which craft (they just may find it). One archeologist seems to be missing. A strange Navaho has his hat stolen but the silver hat band left. A woman is coming to visit her fiancé is in for an adventure she did not count on. From all of this Joe Leaphorn must make some sort of sense.
It is the descriptiveness of Tony Hillerman that goes beyond the mystery to pant a picture of a different world that we get to glimpse in the process of reading.
Read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall ads a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
----------------------------------------
---"Dance Hall of the Dead"---
The Fire God is missing
Twelve-year-old Ernesto Cata (Zuñi) is practicing to be the Fire God in a local ceremony. His best buddy George Bowlegs (Navaho) is a Zuñi wana-be.
Ernesto is missing and there is a pool of blood by his bike. The next day his buddy George runs off. It is up to Sgt. Joe Leaphorn to find the boys before anything happens to them (if it has not already.)
As with most of Hillerman's novels everyone has different agendas and stories that overlap. There are alleged stolen artifacts form and archeological dig, and possibly a drug interest. They may or may not interact. We also get a good dose of Zuñi culture, and a feel that we are in the area.
Hillerman is nice enough to leave sufficient clues to let you figure out the mystery before Leaphorn and you then get to watch as he finally comes around to your way of thinking.
Another book by Hillerman "The Boy who Made Dragonfly" further describes the dance hall of the dead (Kothluwalawa.)
Author's Note:
"In this book, the setting is genuine. The village of Zuñi and the landscape of the Zuñi reservation are depicted to the best of my ability. The characters are purely fictional. The view the reader receives of the Sha'lak'o religion is as it might be seen by a Navajo with an interest in ethnology. It does not pretend to be more than that."
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---"Listening Woman"---
A great cliff hanger
Joe Leaphorn can put the loose ends together even when no one else realizes there are loose ends. The story starts out with an old man being bludgeoned and later Leaphorn is intentionally almost rundown by a mysterious man in gold rimed glasses. He tries to tie these together. Then he uses an old robbery as an excuse to get out of a Boy Scout commitment and track down the antagonist. Needles to say the story gets more convoluted for everyone but Leaphorn.
This is an excellent story with the added plus of the description of the area and the Navaho that occupies this area. What seems at first to be over description later enhances the final scenes.
Speaking about the location and Navaho, even the schools, this story is even more enjoyable if you read "Seldom Disappointed" first. Tony describes how he comes by the plot and the people. He even goes out to locations first as research.
I have read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall adds a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
Book Description
Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history's most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill. Her learned mind attracted the most radical philosopher of her time, Peter Abelard. He became her teacher, lover, husband, and finally monastic ally. That relationship has made her fame until now. But Heloise is far more important in her own right. Seventeen experts of international standing collaborate here to reveal and analyze how Heloise's daring achievements shaped normative issues of theology, rhetoric, rational argument, gender, and emotional authenticity. At last we are able to see her for herself, in her moment of history and human awareness.
Customer Reviews:
Cutting-edge Scholarship.......2000-07-14
Anyone who has ever read Abelard's Historia calamitatum and the Letters of Abelard and Heloise will be very interested in this collection of fifteen essays on Heloise (a.d. ?1101-1163/64?), Abbess of the Paraclete. My favorite is "Authenticity Revisited" by John Marenbon, which is a breath of fresh air in "one of the longest-running controversies in medieval scholarship". Marenbon and most - but not all - of the scholars who contributed to this book believe that Heloise did indeed write the famous letters which bear her name. Two essays, by Constant J. Mews and John O. Ward and Neville Chiavaroli, examine a newly re-evaluated series of letters which may well be love letters exchanged by Abelard and Heloise before their ill-fated marriage! Most of the other essays fall into the category of literary criticism, several from a feminist perspective, but the opening essay, by historian Mary Martin McLauglin, tells us more about "Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete".
Customer Reviews:
A great cliff hanger.......2004-05-22
Joe Leaphorn can put the loose ends together even when no one else realizes there are loose ends. The story starts out with an old man being bludgeoned and later Leaphorn is intentionally almost rundown by a mysterious man in gold rimed glasses. He tries to tie these together. Then he uses an old robbery as an excuse to get out of a Boy Scout commitment and track down the antagonist. Needles to say the story gets more convoluted for everyone but Leaphorn.
This is an excellent story with the added plus of the description of the area and the Navaho that occupies this area. What seems at first to be over description later enhances the final scenes.
Speaking about the location and Navaho, even the schools, this story is even more enjoyable if you read "Seldom Disappointed" first. Tony describes how he comes by the plot and the people. He even goes out to locations first as research.
I have read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall adds a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
Audio-Version does not do this book justice!.......2000-04-18
I listened to this book on tape, unabridged, and afraid IN THIS FORM it was drawn out and rather boring, hard to keep track of characters too. It is a much better "paper" read. Had hoped for more Native American cultural and religious education through this fiction; instead it was a who-dunnit like almost any other. Did like the twist of having the downtrodden fight back with modern technology and means, though.
This book was a good quick read........1999-11-01
I am an 8th grader and this book was a very quick read. It was very gripping and well written! I never got bored with it, and I finished it in two days. I reccomend this book to anyone 5th grade and up who likes mystery or action books!
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