This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society tells stories about real-life characters from Texas's history, as well as personal reflections about life from diverse perspectives throughout the last century.
Perhaps the fastest-growing segment of nonfiction publishing, the memoir has become the literary vehicle of choice for all manner of people wishing to share their reflections about life with a wide audience.
The milestone birthdays — whether sweet 16, of-age 21, over-the-hill 30 or a centenarian at 100 — naturally invite age-specific reflections about life, a summing up of what has been learned so far and a fine-tuning of aspirations for the future.
A memoir - not a manual - about life as a small business owner, complete with honest reflections on failures and shortcomings.
As the result most people are able to achieve a measure of peace that comes from deep reflection about key life experiences, and the important relationships they have cultivated.
The book (the title is a reference to Polish artist and writer Bruno Schulz, who was kept alive in the Drohobych ghetto by a Nazi commander who wanted a mural painted in his son's bedroom – his art deemed him "a necessary Jew") is filled with clever reflections about her life and literature, with digressions and memories describing her life in Beirut.
When will you be back?"'Mmmmm.' '… it's not as much fun.' The patients' reflections about their life circumstances gave the physicians a more complete picture of them as individuals and the challenges they faced.
Thus procedural accounts of personal autonomy can include Hampton's test, not as definitive of the acceptability of social arrangements, but as a contribution to the kind of reflection about the good life on which the personal autonomy of individuals depends.
"When administered after careful preparation and in a therapeutic context, psilocybin can lead to deep reflection about one's life and spark motivation to change". Johnson's next study will compare smoking success rates for people who take psilocybin to those for people who use nicotine patches.
I think you nailed it.. it's also a gentle reflection about how much life just slips by and is forgotten.
