Uplifted Stories

I lived in India from 1984-2005, and wrote to my parents regularly about my adventures in Indian ashrams. From 1984-1993 and again 2001-2005, I was living in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, and I am adding all of those my "Letters from India" book, which will mainly be of interest to those familiar with Prasanthi Nilayam, the ashram of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. However, from 1994-2001 I was staying at a wonderfully spiritual, quiet retreat called Shanti Ashram, and I am putting the letters I wrote to my parents while staying there, on this book. The ashram was a dream come true for sadhana. The people are welcoming, it is usually never crowded, and they offer separate cottages to aspirants. The rates are donation basis only. You can contact them for a visit or longer-term stay: Sri Shanti Ashram Thotapalli Hills Via Sankhavaram East Godavari Dist Andhra Pradesh, India 533446 Phone: 011-91-7382009962

Emma -- is a seventeen year girl trying to see the meaning of her life and what it has stored in for her. a story for everyone trying to enact meaningful change in their lives. she is powerless against the charms of a man to turn her life upside down and that man is the SO called BAD boy of her new luxurious school. she been living with her dad because her mom just died and her dad couldn't cope with it. so he wanted to move so they both can get a new start since emma is gonna be graduating this year. suddenly her life is transformed into a luxurious house, private new school, new clothes, and even havin a change with future that she wouldnt dream of. So why is she wary, unable to be grateful, incapable of letting anyone get close to her. Her old life has been left behind and where does her new life fit in now. Only lance the genial, popular bad boy next door, seems to understand, well maybe he is hiding something too Emma is not the only one with secrets.

101 poems of 5 different categories: Ballads, Limericks, Acrostic poems, Odes and Haikus. Read about love, friendship, stories, alternate dimensions, and a different way of looking at the world. Read 101 poems, each one as mystifying and as daring as the last. Enjoy! @Ireadabook101

A sprawling speculative historical chronicle that documents Earth's transformation over five millennia-from the final days of human hegemony (2700-2800 AD) through catastrophic events (the Cataclysms) and into a post-cataclysm world marked by survival, adaptation, and the eventual emergence of uplifted species (culminating at around 8000 AD).