Sonya VanderVeen Feddema interviews Josh Tiessen, about his recently released book, A Decade of Inspiration, written and produced with his mother, Dr. Julie A. Tiessen. Josh’s book deals with his birth to his missionary parents in Russia and their growing awareness that their son had a special gift. Years later, Dr. Joanne Ruthsatz confirmed that Josh is an art prodigy.
Isn’t reconciliation more of a spiritual gift, and less of a targeted process to be worked toward step-by step as if by YouTube video?
One consequence of a paradigm shift in science is that whole fields are revisited and need to be re-understood. This can be true both for the fields at the centre of the paradigm shift but also for other related disciplines.
How do we figure out who we are? And how do we find a space where we can truly be ourselves? It’s a learning process that goes on our whole lives. Moonlight explores these questions, through a window into three short periods of the life of a young African American man named Chiron.
Dr. C. Nicole Mason’s objective in writing Born Bright is “to offer a fresh perspective on the dynamics of poverty that have long been concealed by grandiose narratives of American exceptionalism promoted by liberals and conservatives alike.”
It took Cohen’s long-time backup singer, Jennifer Warnes’ often eerie, haunting, sometimes reverential 1986 tribute album, Famous Blue Raincoat to draw me into Cohen’s fold. Even then, though, I remained comfortably on its margins. Then came Ten New Songs in 2001, co-written and produced by Sharon Robinson. That was the first pure Cohen CD I bought – but not till 2004. I was hooked, gaffed, pulled up on deck and captured alive for the next 13 years.
You Want It Darker is Leonard Cohen’s last album of his lifetime. It treads the familiar territories of God, sex and death, but with the tone of a man who knows he’s nearing the end and has loosened his grip on them. They are all there, but not as in your face as they once were.
Artful Eye piece.
Medical science has rendered obsolete the experience, tradition and language about our mortality and created a new difficulty: how to die. We need to re-learn when and how to accept that the battle is over. We wait till doctors tell us there is nothing more they can do. But rarely is there nothing more doctors can do.
The Sympathizer is one of the most accomplished war novels in recent years, right up there with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The story of a North Vietnamese secret agent working with the Southern Vietnamese forces, it finds new ground in subject matter that has been examined by writers too numerous to count. To understand its significance, however, will require a little history.
Reading The Morning You Came for Us, though difficult to absorb, may be one way you can begin to understand some of the realities that your Syrian newcomer friends, their families and nation have faced.
“I’d always maintained that a sense of humour can be found in any destination, no matter how bruised, how battered, and that through humour we can find a sense of shared humanity. But Rwanda?”
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