“In order to change the face of what the media calls beauty, we must actively teach our children a more profound definition of what is beautiful and reinforce and affirm that definition daily.”
Leanne Power wrote this book based on what she learned about what true beauty means. Self esteem is something many girls struggle with unfortunately,including me.
It’s a wonderful story about true beauty, and I love that the people in it are average looking. A book full of what society thinks of as beautiful saying we are all beautiful just wouldn’t have the same effect.
It can be purchased on the website or on amazon.com
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*Disclosure: I received a copy of this book for review and a few other copies to give out as gifts to our Girl Guide Summer Camp. All opinions are honest.
I signed up for this book tour because I love reading about language however this book was more indepth that I had expected. I had a hard time getting into it at first but once I was past the first chapter or so, it was much better. There were still parts that I just couldn't understand but I understood enough to enjoy the book. It is however hard reading and took a long time to read because I couldn't read too much of it at once without falling asleep. It's not that it was boring, just technical (as far as language goes) and concentrating that much when already tired makes you fall asleep."It's a pain for English speakers to have to learn the gender of every noun in French or German along with the noun itself. But in Navajo, for every single verb in the language you have to learn these five variations. You just have to know. The nearest equivalent for an English speaker would be if every verb were like be, where we have to know that it's I am but I was and I've been and subjuntively, if I were - just imagine if English had it in addition that today I speak, yesterday I spoke, tomorrow I spock, repetitively I spack and hypothetically I just might spoo." - pg 68.
"The plural of man [...] was mani "mahnee." The ee sound is pronounced in the front of the mouth, while the ah sound is in the back (try saying ee-ah-ee-ah and notice how you switch forward and back.) After a while, anticipating the upcoming ee, speakers started pronouncing the ah more frontally. One way of doing that is to pronounce it eh (say eh-ee-eh-ee and everything stays up front). This meant that mahnee was not pronounced meni. But sounds have a way of dropping off the ends of words as a language moves along [...] The plural -i marker was no exception, and so by the time Proto-Germanic was Old English, meni was just men. " - pg 72
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| Paleo Raw Fruit Pie |
Crust 2 cups raw nuts (almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, etc.) 1 cup dates, pitted (raisins, figs or dried apricots can also be used 1/4 tsp. sea salt (optional) 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut Cinnamon or nutmeg Put raw nuts in a food processor, and blend with S-blade until nuts are reduced to small crumbs. Add the dates and salt, and blend again until no more date chunks remain. Pour crumbs in to 9-inch pie plate, and use your hands to press crumbs into the form of a pie crust. Freeze pie crust for about 15 minutes. This helps it become firm and solid. Fruit Filling 6 cups fresh fruit (blueberries, strawberries, cherries, peaches, etc.) 2 tbs fresh lemon juice 1 cup date, soaked about 10 minutes in water unsweetened coconut (optional) Wash fruits, and cut off stems. Cut bigger fruits into thin slices or chunks. Put 2 cups of fruit, lemon juice, and soaked dates (without the water) into a blender and blend until you have a smooth liquid. Put remaining 4 cups of fruit into a large bowl, and pour blended fruit mixture over it. Mix well. Take pie crust out of the freezer, and pour the fruit mixture into it. Use a rubber spatula to spread the filling into the crust. Sprinkle coconut over the top and put back in the refrigerator for an hour or two. Enjoy! I can't wait to try this! I have recently learned that using dates as sugar is how Lara bars taste so good with only a few ingredients. The post of recipes for energy bars, protein bars, cliff bar taste-a-likes and lara bar copy cats is coming soon... Delicioius black bean chocolate protien bars with only whole foods? Can't wait to try it! I will try to make some of these and blog about it soon! |
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| My daughter Bella and I holding up my son's cake for his 7th birthday. |
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| [All photos by me. Art images, Jill Bliss] |
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| Jill at work, and her sweet 11 year-old dog, Lucy. |
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| Jill's drawing of California Poppies is still one of my favorites of hers. Every year they spring up in her garden. |
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| An artist can never have too much storage. The wall and window ledges are perfect for Jill's smaller collections. |
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| The insanely detailed work of Jill's Anima series. |
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| Enjoying tea in Jill's sweet kitchen. |
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| Clipboards are an easy way to organize loose papers. The chair rail is a perfect spot for Jill's clipboards. |
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| Jill makes business cards from recycled prints and stationary. |
