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    Sounds of My Soul
    Sounds of My Soul
    Sounds of My Soul
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    Sounds of My Soul

    By Charmiene Maxwell-Batten

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    Real life observations, narrations and insights about characters, places and events that come to life with the meaningful observations made by Charmiene Maxwell-Batten. The author's perceptive skill in finding 'food for thought' within our day-to-day experiences gives the reader an added and sometimes deeper perspective on everyday life. The author's natural curiosity and ability to explore the landscape of human behavior is both honest and compassionate. These absorbing chapters invite the reader into a thoughtful world of reflections and spark an added awareness of 'ordinary' life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateSep 30, 2011
    ISBN9781105747274
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      Sounds of My Soul - Charmiene Maxwell-Batten

      Sounds of My Soul

      Sounds of My Soul

      By Charmiene Maxwell-Batten

      "Better to write for yourself

      And have no public

      Than to write for the public

      And have no self"

      Cyril Connolly

      Sounds of My Soul

      Charmiene Maxwell-Batten

      Copyright

      ISBN 978-1-105-74727-4

      Copyright 2012

      By Charmiene Maxwell-Batten.

      All rights reserved. This work may not be copied, duplicated or imaged in any way, mechanical or electronic, without the written consent of the

      Copyright holder/author.

      FIRST EDITION 2012

      Order this book at: www.lulu.com/content/11573132

      Contact: Charmiene@hotmail.com

      Books

      By Charmiene Maxwell-Batten

      A Medley of Reflections

      Araminta’s Message – a communiqué from the Enchanted world of Fairies

      Reflections of a Journey in Thailand and India

      England – Ponderings and Reflections

      Ponderings and Reflections of Childhood

      America - Ponderings and Reflections

      Switzerland – You Danced in my Heart

      Ponderings and Reflections of a Housekeeper

      Sounds of My Soul Volume 2

      Finding My Moccasins

      "For small creatures such as we,

      The vastness is bearable

      only through love"

      Carl Sagan

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      The Salt Flats

      Reacting and Responding

      Beauty or Duty

      Alcatraz for the Rich"

      America the Free

      Attention Span

      Bullying

      Community, Cult, Clique, Gang or Family

      ‘Do Gooders’

      Dogma or Science

      Elegant

      Marketing

      Shining Star

      Recipes

      Kali

      Epilogue

      Biography

      Dedication

      Dedicated to our dear Kali,

      who died on September 27th, 2011.

      The unconditional love shown by dogs, is an example to the human race.

      Kali, you are deeply missed.

      "To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon

      is to be back in Eden,

      where doing nothing was not boring –

      it was peace.

      ~Milan Kundera

      Acknowledgements

      Many thanks Laura Redmond (http://Lauradawnsky.com) for much appreciated computer help with eBooks. Laura is a gifted artist and photographer.  Thankyou David W, Morin Jr. and Diana Fairbank for your much appreciated computer help with formatting my books.

      Thank you to the writing group in San Antonio, Texas for our weekly meetings and feedback on my writing.

      I want to thank the many people whose path joins mine for a short or longer walk through Life.

      Whatever the mirror reflects is valuable and worthy of seeing.

      "If spring came but once a century

      instead of once a year,

      Or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake

      and not in silence,

      what wonder and expectation there would be

      in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change."

      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Introduction

      This collection of thoughts are vignettes of personal musings that express insights gained by living everyday life. Anyone who shares a curiosity for our human condition will surely relate to and voice their own intrinsic observations about this collective and profound journey called ‘Life’.

      Our unique footprints as individual characters are unmistakable even though social programming tends to form a mode of expression that is familiar in a shared culture, generation or even religion. That strong longing to walk a distinctive path yet standing together as a community where guidance, support and acceptance is a vital component, remains a longing in any society. Alone and together, need not be a contradiction.  It need not be separate.

      To live and let live while imparting the originality of each personal existence has always been my own longing.  Not ‘alone alone’ and not ‘together together’. Living life comfortably together alone, or alone together, is a vision of contentment; a symphony that plucks the strings in my heart.

      Do people write because they feel lonely or to stay busy or even to keep the clouds of depression away? Perhaps all of those things. Whatever the reason, I

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