The Journey Home

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You might be experiencing the effects of known and unknown trauma. We all have life wounds – good news we can heal from them. The story begins with a polar bear on a tiny bit surrounded by only the sea – all the ice has melted. Since he can no longer survive there he sets out to find a place to live. Eventually he finds a boat which makes his journey easier but he can’t seem to find a place to live. Along the way he meets a panda at a harbour, the panda is completely surrounded by a massive city, after that he meets an orang-utan surrounded by tree stumps. Together these animals travel through storms until they reach an island which is home to the already extinct dodo. This does deserve five stars. I'd never heard of Dermot Bolger, bought this because of the cover (and being in a blue book mode) plus I've learnt that the Irish way of writing is rarely to be refused.

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My first autobiography read. It was gifted by a spiritual uncle at the time I lost my mother, as an attempt to help settle me... Figure 9.3.Marian’s husband looking at the Stolpersteine outside Wilhelmsaue 136, Berlin 2010 (Photo taken by Marian Liebmann). Figure 18.1. Stolpersteine commemorating the Freudenthal family in Laisa (Photo by Gina Burgess Winning). It's just amazing to read it. The reader takes us along his journey helping us to realize the most amazing truths of the world, which all the age old intellectuals has assimilated in their soul journey. Figure 1.2.Janet’s mother, Eva, at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Photo taken by Janet Eisenstein).

LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. I started reading this book somewhat grudgingly and after a tumultuous ride on a journey with the author, I came to this. It describes the author's confusion about whether God is personal or impersonal and how one day Srila Prabhupada removed his confusion. I had the same confusion regarding the nature of the divine and this removed my confusion as well. But unlike the author, I lean towards striving to attain the divine as impersonal through meditation. I will always remember this book for this section which inspired me to resume my spiritual quest. An poignant discourse on the idea of "home," especially in a situation--so intense in Ireland, but resonant everywhere--that one might dub "traumatic," if we take traumatic to gesture at the paralysis that comes from a culture dangerously steeped in its past, too enamored with things that are lost. Foundations crumble and fragmentation ensues, and this is made painfully apparent in Bolger's characters and, impressively, embodied in his narrative structure. One group of second-generation members made the trip together with their survivor or former refugee parents. Others went after their parents’ death. Those with elderly parents, unable to travel, went without them but often communicated to them how they had retraced their family history. Some undertook the journey to help them come to terms with the burden of the past. Others saw it as part of the grieving process for a lost world and family that they would never know.

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Figure 6.1.Elaine’s father, Kuba, in the doorway of his grandparents’ apartment building (Photo taken by Elaine’s sister, Susan Devan 1997).

Figure 12.2.Family Portrait Christmas 1951. Diana is on her mother’s knee and sister Rosalind standing (From family collection).