Remembering Blue

Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness and moves to a tiny coastal Florida town. At the Suwannee Swifty convenience store, a sea change envelops her. Mattie O’Rourke sees Proteus Nicholas Blue and their fate is sealed after only a few shy, stolen glances. Nick walks into Mattie’s life having fled his own. A lifelong fisherman from a remote island off the coast, Nick is haunted by the certain knowledge that the sea will be the death of him (as it has been for all the Blue men) and he has resolved to leave it behind. But as Nick and Mattie settle into an intimacy that both comforts and surprises them, Nick feels the inextricable pull of the waxing moon’s tide and the siren’s call of the dolphins that, Blue legend has it, are his brethren. And so it is that Mattie, who only months before felt that happiness would never find her, returns with Nick to the island home that nurtured him and finds herself embraced by a large and loving family and an alluring and sensual landscape. Life on Lethe is transforming for Mattie. But Nick always knew that the sea would claim him, and all of Mattie’s love cannot prevent the tragedy that is their destiny. Moving and enchanting, Remembering Blue is a lush story of love, loss, and the mythic power of the ocean, told in an elegant and passionate voice that could only come from Connie May Fowler. From the Trade Paperback edition..

Daniel learns how to handle the feelings he has after his pet fish, Blue Fish, dies..

The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address intersections of trauma, history, and memory. Methodologies include personal narrative, auto-ethnography, micro-history, psychosocial studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, film/art criticism, and historical inquiry./span.

The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some relief from the constant frustration of how to write the kanji and some way to systematize what he or she already knows. The author begins with writing because--contrary to first impressions--it is in fact the simpler of the two. He abandons the traditional method of ordering the kanji according to their frequency of use and organizes them according to their component parts or "primitive elements." Assigning each of these parts a distinct meaning with its own distinct image, the student is led to harness the powers of "imaginative memory" to learn the various combinations that result. In addition, each kanji is given its own key word to represent the meaning, or one of the principal meanings, of that character. These key words provide the setting for a particular kanji's "story," whose protagonists are the primitive elements. In this way, students are able to complete in a few short months a task that would otherwise take years. Armed with the same skills as Chinese or Korean students, who know the meaning and writing of the kanji but not their pronunciation in Japanese, they are now in a much better position to learn to read (which is treated in a separate volume). For further information and a sample of the contents, visit http: ///www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/miscPublications/Remembering_the_Kanji_l.htm..

The Foundations of Remembering presents a collection of essays written by top memory scholars in honor of Henry L. Roediger III. The chapters were originally delivered as part of the "Roddyfest" conference held in March 2005 to celebrate Purdue University's awarding of an honorary doctor of letters to Roediger in recognition of his many contributions to the field of psychology. Authors were given a simple charge: choose your own topic, but place your work in historical context. Roediger is fascinated by the intellectual lineage of ideas, so addressing historical "foundations" seemed a fitting tribute. The Chapters contained in this volume help to establish the foundations of remembering, circa the first decade of the 21st century, as perceived by some of the leading memory researchers in the world. Not surprisingly, each of the chapters touches on Roediger's research as well, largely because his work has helped to define and clarify many topics of interest to the memory field. The Foundations of Remembering is intended for a wide audience: students, scholars, and anyone interested in exploring the historical and conceptual roots of modern memory theory..

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation.

Between the adventures... Blue and her friends made it back to Earth. The adventures are over, and all that’s left is to clean up the aftermath. She’s dealing with police, rumors and rivalries at school, nightmares and increasingly distant friends. Maybe it’s an adventure of a new kind but it feels more like the end of them. So, Blue comes up with a new plan: Get Phe and Kevin together, officially Get Forrest out of his house And figure out why she can't stop thinking about a certain red-haired clansman, and what she's going to do about it..

This is the story of a young, first-time mother who was unprepared for the unimaginable- the possibility of losing her baby. It is a personal story that speaks of the author's experience of losing her baby daughter immediately after her birth. More importantly it is a story of the process she goes through to come to terms with her loss, to forgive herself and forgive others and to move on with her life. The author captures the pain, suffering and shock of the experience of losing her daughter after struggles getting pregnant. But what she also shares is hope-the road she took to heal that suffering. For anyone who has experienced something similar, this is a story of solidarity, but one that demonstrates that survival is possible. In a time that it seems that life cannot continue, when our worlds may be filled by the opposite of life and joy, there is a light. There is a beacon of hope..

The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens when narratives of war arise out of personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still unfolding. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories of those who participated and were affected by the events of 1948, and how these events have been mythologized over time. This is a three-way conversation between Palestinian villagers, Jewish-Israeli veterans, and British policemen who were stationed in Palestine on the eve of the war. Each has his or her story to tell. These small-scale truths shed new light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as it was then and as it has become..

In her youth she danced with a professional British ballet troupe and modeled for Vogue until war tore through England. Later she rode horseback to hunting camp deep in the Montana wilderness, learned to cook and preserve on a wood stove, and raised four children, all in a state larger than her entire homeland--back cover..

Life is precious and all too often we take for granted that we have tomorrow but tomorrow is not promised to any of us. This is a true story. Wendy Portfors knew her life had changed in an instant when her husband suffered a stroke and the underlying cause was an inoperable tumor. Wendy has written from her firsthand experience. This is an intimate and brutally honest account of her journey through her husband's diagnosis, to Caregiver and ultimately to being widowed. After losing her husband of 38 years Wendy's world spiraled out of control. She bears her soul into her struggle to overcome loneliness, isolation, feelings of abandonment and the darkness of depression. It captures the heartbreak of loss and Wendy's slow and painful journey from unimaginable grief to healing. We will all experience loss in our lifetime. Wendy shares her insights from her personal experience aimed to help others navigate through loss to healing. Whether you are a Caregiver, grieving a loss or supporting a grieving person this book is for you. Wendy's hope is that by reading 'Remembering Love' you will find strength, understanding and compassion for life's passages..

There is magic to be found in this place so beautiful, it might be holy . . . El Canon de los Recuerdos.Here between the mountains, on the edge of the desert, in a remote area of Northern New Mexico, you must come expecting the miraculous: People around the village still spoke of the miracle of the flying sheep, even if they did not believe it to be true. They still spoke of the young Garcia girl and how she saw five sheep tumbled in the wind ahead of a thunderstorm, wool balls at the infinite mercy of God's hand. Dominga's parents and brothers, and most everyone else around Mi Ojo, believed that seven-year-old Dominga had been struck on the head by lightning that day. Even when the sheep were found dead five miles out in Recuerdos Canyon, their wool tinged with hues of purple and pink, like the tips of the clouds at sundown, people around Mi Ojo believed Dominga's story to be nonsense. The miracle, they said was that Dominga Garcia was alive at all, loco or not. But Dominga knew el milagro de Mi Ojo was the five flying sheep, even if her neighbors were too stubborn to acknowledge it.And even now, at forty-seven, the beautiful widow Dominga Garcia de Jesus hasn't stopped believing in miracles; she's just desperately in need of one.In an extraordinarily rich pageant of characters and cultures, through a landscape so palpable it breathes with a life of its own, Canyon of Remembering charts the soul's journey to find meaning, forgiveness, and most miraculous of all . . . love.".

At five years old, Julianne doesn’t want to move to George Town East, especially when she knows she’ll be separated from her best friend. Still, when Julianne’s dad tells her that the headless people that live in her closet and chase her down the hall won’t follow her to their new house, she starts to look forward to the move. George Town East is where Julianne will spend her childhood and adolescence in the 1970s and 1980s; in this memoir, she recalls a simpler time growing up there. Hot summer days, watching television with the family, riding bicycles, and going to the movies were all mainstays of daily life. This was a time before computers, before cell phones and when children growing up didn’t have a care in the world—except school, summer vacations and then becoming a teenager and falling in love for the first time. Join Julianne as she recalls awkward teenage moments, life in a small town, and a time that no longer exists in Remembering George Town East..

The Kennebunksthe phrase evokes peace, ocean breezes and small-town pride. In this captivating collection of vignettes, Kennebunk town historian Kathleen Ostrander reveals another side of the areas allure: its rich and varied past. From an account of the amateur astronomer whose name now graces the Bates College Observatory to the origins of Kennebunks encyclopedic Walker Diaries, Ostrander offers a tour of the areas historical highlights. She notes the mysterious creature once said to live in the Kennebunk River, treasures hidden in fireplaces and under floorboards and the scandalous murder trial of 1866, during which the wife of deceased doctor, drunk, and temperance supporter Charles Swett was imprisoned on the testimony of her own daughter. Through quirky tales and serious sketches, Ostrander offers an affectionate portrait of the Kennebunks sure to charm and inform..

This is a true American success story of family members that were made up of members across the diaspora and exemplifies the brilliance of diversity. Our family was both special as well as a part of the human family that makes all of us special. For those reasons it is important reading-to see the differences of others while also seeing the similarities in ourselves..

In a number of highly-charged child abuse cases, teachers and parents have been wrongfully arrested because of claims of 'recovered memory'. But brain science is now discovering how memories can alter, or even be planted by leading questions. Sabbagh explains the latest findings, and argues that courts must be guided by them..

This brief charts out principles for a cultural psychology of remembering. The idea at its core is a conceptualization of remembering as a constructive process--something that occurs at the intersection of a person and their social-cultural world. To do this, it moves away from the traditional metaphor of memory as storage and develops the alternative metaphor of construction as part of wider social and cultural developments in society. This new approach is developed from key ideas of Lev Vygotsky and Frederic Bartlett, in particular their concepts of mediation and reconstructive remembering. From this foundation, the authors demonstrate how remembering is conflictual, evolving, and transformative at both the individual and collective level. This approach is illustrated with concrete case studies, which highlight key theoretical concepts moving from micro-level processes to macro-level social phenomena. Among the topics covered are: The microgenesis of memories in conversation The role of narrative mediation in the recall of history Remembering through social positions in conflicts Urban memory during revolutions How memorials are used to channel grief and collective memory Remembering as a Cultural Process traces our ongoing journey to answer the question of the different ways in which culture participates in and is constitutive of what it means for humans to remember. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the fields of memory studies or cultural psychology..