Dr. Jack Brauns survived four years of captivity during the Holocaust because of education, relationships and being in the right place at the right time. The 84-year-old Covina resident, who practiced medicine in La Puente and Glendora, recently published his memoir, "Recollections and Reflections: How I Turned Despair into an Appreciation of Life.
NORWAY -- Norway Memorial Library will host author Susanna Grannis, founder of CHABHA, a Vermont- and Rwanda-based humanitarian organization, at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 7. Grannis discuss her new book, "Hope Amidst Despair: HIV/AIDS Affected Children in Sub- Saharan Africa." African refreshments will served and books will be available for purchase and signing. Commenting on her new book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate writes, "This is an unsentimental and realistic assessment of the desperate situation of children in sub-Saharan Africa affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Thus when the author says there is hope despite the hopelessness we must believe her. We are indebted to Susanna Grannis for pointing to the light at the end of the tunnel.
In the ever-diminishing world of contemporary poetry, Les Murray is one of the few undeniable titans. He is a bit of a renegade: a Catholic and a "subhuman redneck" (as his most famous collection of poems, "Subhuman Redneck Poems," has it) and an almost too-earnest foe of human cruelty and much of modern cosmopolitan and intellectual life. Measured against the teasing, meaning-averse vagaries of postmodern poetry and the sometimes prettyish, usually vapid adjective salads that fill the occasional nook in high-brow magazines, Mr. Murray reads like a mutton-chopped bard of yore. He's cut from old cloth. He likes plot and picaresque - his novel in verse, "Fredy Neptune" has a bit of the page-turning feel of a 19th- century adventure novel - though the quality of the novel's verse demands a...
Walking through a San Bernardino home that had been sitting empty in foreclosure and now shines with fresh paint and granite countertops, Robert Hooker points to the baby grass just beginning to sprout from the newly landscaped backyard. Hooker and the nonprofit organization he heads is all about new beginnings.
A couple of years ago I endured several weeks of despair. This time of tears began as I sat with a family the day after Christmas watching their middle-aged father and husband slip from this life to the next. Then, shortly after New Year's, my family received news that doctors had found a tumor in the brain of the gentle woman who had babysat our daughter.
Over 21 million people in America suffer from depression, the leading cause of disability in this country, especially among the elderly. For those of us who have suffered from depression the symptoms are often the same, with moodiness, exhaustion, loss of enthusiasm, sleeping to much or too little, irritability, anxiousness, loss of appetite, disconnection from friends and family, or just feeling plain burned out. This is how I felt during my bout with depression. It is not an illness that comes overnight; it's a gradual change in mood that slowly sucks you into a dark cloud of emotional despair. In the book "The Thyroid Solution," Ridha Arem, MD, puts forth a compelling case in showing the connection between the thyroid, moods, emotions and behavior. The thyroid is called "the gland of...
The Washington Redskins put the 2011 season out of its misery Sunday. Before (just guessing here) 40,000 occasionally interested fans at Lincoln Financial Field, they were pounded 34-10 by the Philadelphia Eagles - who also had nothing to play for, but had better players to do it with. The game was replete with a blocked field goal attempt (Graham Gano's fifth of the season), a breakdown in the secondary that resulted in a long touchdown pass, a pair of senseless 15-yard penalties by two veteran receivers who should know better (Santana Moss, Donte Stallworth), a shanked punt - all the special touches you'd look for from a 5-11 team that's shutting it down for the year.
The other event was the Amer-I-Can Graduate at NFL Hall of Famer, Jim Brown's home. A class of the most maniacal and self-destructive young men and women in our community went through a 14 week program to change their lives-an example of what real hope, faith and works (the will to change your reality) can do. One of the young men was shot four times with an AK47 (by some of his homies that didn't want to let him out of the life of death and destruction) a month earlier-but he made his graduation. He was just as profound in his comments when he said Amer-I-can taught him that success in life is "Mind over matter; If you have a mind-things matter, if you have no mind-then nothing matters." Dr. Garvey's words that nobody but you keeps you from knowledge and purpose (of self) coming from a...
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