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Treading Water with God: Lessons in Love While Care Giving is a book especially for you, the home caregiver and those who love and support you in your work. Your job is often difficult and tiring physically, mentally, and emotionally. Just like Veronica Kelly Badowski, the author of this book, you too can find enthusiasm and endurance by staying close to God who shares His wisdom, guidance, strength, and peace.Each section of Treading Water With God includes:BIBLE VERSEEach verse will teach, guide, and lift your spirit.MEDITATIONThe author writes from her heart about firsthand experiences as a caregiver. These meditations will encourage you to look to God for everything you need each day as He guides you to become more like His Son, our Lord Jesus.YOUR JOURNALA thought or a question prompts you to think and/or write about your own care giving experiences.TIP FOR CAREGIVERPractical tips are given to make your job as a caregiver easier, organized, happier, and most importantly more mindful of the needs of the care recipient.POEMEvery section includes a poem as a creative expression of the many moods and emotions of care giving.

In Go Play Outside, poet Robert Cooperman chronicles his first, unconditional love, basketball even if the affair has been unrequited, Cooperman is far better at writing poetry than he ever was at hoops. Cooperman begins with the origins of the game itself, from the legendary peach baskets of Dr. James Naismith, arising out of that brutal and boring winter of 1891, in Springfield, Massachusetts. From that origin point, progressing into the early professional game of the Twenties. Cooperman then takes us fast forward to his own discovery of the beauty of the game while watching early NBA contests. Evolving with his attempts at playing the game himself, on his own block, in schoolyards. Finally, trying out, unsuccessfully for his high school team. Thereafter, rejuvenated with his witness of the recently late, great Elgin Baylor Cooperman s all-time sports idol the player, he asserts, who changed the game from horizontal to vertical. Along the way, we get pictures of what it is about the sport that he loves: its flow, its kinetic music, its balletic grace and style, as when a perfectly attempted jump shot swishes through the bucket for a score. Maybe it s too much to assert that basketball is a metaphor for life, but without the game, Cooperman s life would have been far less rich. And like life, basketball requires hard work, dedication, practice, and maybe a little bit of genius, or at least moxie. All of which are on display in this lovely collection.