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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Analysis of a Drowning Scene </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">I plopped against the water like a green coconut and sank like an
elephant bolder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spurted upward,
thrashing and flailing as I tried to grab air, water, help, something,
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Down into the belly of the
watery darkness I dipped and gulped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
came back up, gasping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gulp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Up. Gasp. Down. Gulp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My lungs
heaved under the burden of its unfamiliar cargo of salted silted water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind screamed words that my flooded larynx
could not utter. (</span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The Talking
Palm: </span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How<b> </b>the childhood storms of a young woman’s life
remained hidden until a palm fruit started talking</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> p </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">68)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> This is a partial description of a drowning scene in the life of a
twelve-year old Caribbean girl. It is the last day of the school year. Sheryl
and her classmates have cleaned their school furniture on the gray beach of Salisbury
village in Dominica. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since forced labor is
over, all that is left for the pupils to do now is to have fun in the vast
Caribbean Sea. Some of Sheryl’s friends are already enjoying the soft sea water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> While Sheryl’s friends frolic in the water, Sheryl is content to
relax on that part of the shore where her feet can stand on sand in water.
Thank you. You see, Sheryl has decided she will only go into water where she
can stand firmly on sand. Wading deeper into water requires Sheryl to stay
afloat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staying afloat requires swimming
skills. How can one float in water will when one cannot swim? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> But Sheyrl’s excuse that she cannot swim is not enough for Linda,
one of Sheryl’s friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She insists
that Sheryl come far into the water where all of Sheryl’s friends are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can Sheryl so deprive herself of the
volley of fun her friends are clearly having in that cool water? Linda asks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t Sheryl hear the shrieks and laughter of
joy coming from the water? Isn’t she envious of such happiness? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl should, according to Linda. To Linda,
it is unacceptable that her friend stand on a dry dilapidated jetty while
normal kids are dancing in water. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> So Linda decides to take matters into her own hands. Thank you
very much. She will make sure Sheryl has a day of fun to remember. So Linda
entices Sheryl to venture further down the jetty, to the point closest to the
deepest part of the sea. Although Sheryl is scared of falling through the
cracks on the jetty, she nonetheless trusts her friend. After all, Linda knows
that Sheryl cannot swim. Sheryl is sure of that. She’s made sure Linda knows
that as well as she knows<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her ten
fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Off course Linda knows that. Linda
knows that Sheryl cannot swim. That is why she is calling Sheryl forward. Right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl can’t read Linda’s mind. Can she? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> Sheryl tepidly follows Linda’s instructions to join Linda at
that point of no return. Linda gives her friend no sign of what she is
thinking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl has no reason to
suspect her friend of any mischievous intent to take Sheryl into a situation
Sheryl has never been in before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
should Sheryl expect that all she is going to do is join her friend at the end
of the peer? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why shouldn’t that be the
only purpose for Linda’s call? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
what I would think of a friend whom I have known for so long and trusts so much.
Wouldn’t you? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> But the moment Sheryl entrusts her friend with her body, allowing
short Linda to wrap her hands around the waist of Sheryl’s tall body, things
change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl finds her feet no longer
rooted to something solid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, they
are in the air, flailing whichever way they choose, as Sheryl hurtles nonstop
toward the unsuspecting bodies of salted water and startled friends. Linda’s
embrace had become a push.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> The very experience the protagonist’s fear indicates
she is trying to avoid in the first place is the very situation that greets
her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;"> By Esther Jno-Charles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is the end of a day at high school; Sheryl goes home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homework time is approaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl has the luxury of doing her homework
at home or elsewhere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl, of course,
chooses to do it elsewhere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is eager
to take her homework assignments with her to the house of a missionary named
Miss Eliot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But according to a story in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Talking Palm</i>, it is not for the
reason you may be thinking of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheryl
really wants to go to Miss Eliot for her food. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif",sans-serif;">Miss Eliot
also gave me fresh crisp coconut cookies and toasts that brought joy to my
forever-hungry belly. Her bread was always so flat and soft, while the outer
crust of the bread my father made and those I bought were round and rough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although our local bread was delicious too,
especially when freshly baked, hers seemed to taste more buttery and more
refined and gentler on my tongue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whenever I went to her home to study, and before I could do any serious
studying, all I concentrated on while my head was seemingly planted in my
science book was how long did I have to wait before that tea and … bread
came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(104-105)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The thought of eating the toasted sandwich lures Sheryl to the neighbor’s
house more than the desire to do homework, especially after she comes from high
school hungry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she arrives, she
can’t even think about work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is very
hungry, and her mind is captivated with the smell and taste of the delicious
food she is expecting to come her way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In her mind, her father’s bread does not look or taste as nice as the
neighbor’s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though it did, things
on the other side sometimes look better than what we have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By Esther Jno-Charles </span></div>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-85648056069140462762014-06-13T08:46:00.001-07:002014-06-13T08:46:32.528-07:00Near Miscarriage
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<span style="color: black;">
“<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
months after the wedding, I was in Marva’s yard playing skip with
her daughters, unaware that skipping could cause me to miscarry my
two-month old pregnancy. Later that night, I felt a terrible pain in
my hip. My entire body ached. I could barely move. Fortunately,
Tracy came home that night to bring me some of her delicious sweet
potato pudding.” </span></span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These
are the opening sentences of “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jumping
Hoops</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,”
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
story in my book: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Talking Palm:</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
childhood storms of a young woman’s life remained hidden until a
palm fruit started talking</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Newly-wed
Sheryl is pregnant. She knows that. But she is nineteen. When her
teenage neighbors sound as if they are having so much fun jumping
hoop, what does she do? Join the fun. So what if she is pregnant?
She is invincible, isn't she? After all, she is a teenager. Do
teenagers think they can get harmed when they do harmful things? Do
they think they can hurt themselves or others when they do reckless
things like drink and drive, or or rendezvous with strangers they
meet through the internet? </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheryl
is not deliberately pounding herself, or throwing herself against an
object, or doing anything so stupid that a rock would know that she
has gone too far. She is not even thinking about her baby, her first
baby, her precious baby to come, one she cannot wait to see. She has
no reason to. </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her
baby is safe. Deep inside of her. Nothing can go wrong since she is
not expecting anything to go wrong. Right? As far as Sheryl knows,
she is jut skipping. How can anything go wrong when she is just
having a good time? </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later
that night, when pain engulfs her body, she realizes her mistake.
Her idea of having fun is really a reckless act that has jeopardized
the life of her baby </span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps
if the teens' mother had known that Sheryl was pregnant, she would
have warned Sheryl against jumping hoop. </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ether
Jno-Charles</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Author:
<i>The Talking Palm:How</i><i><b> </b></i><i>the childhood storms of
a young woman’s life remained hidden until a palm fruit started
talking </i><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></u></span></span><i>
</i></span></span></span>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-49333754680992254602014-02-24T07:06:00.003-08:002014-02-24T07:08:45.576-08:00The Help Sheryl Speak Loud and Far Movement<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> In
“The Skerrit,” little Sheryl thinks she is going to die in a
house in the ocean. She thinks she deserves such cruel punishment for
her truancy. She also believes that no one, not even her mother, can
rescue her from the tragedy that awaits her. So she stands alone,
scared, powerless and silent before a powerful adult her culture has
led her to believe has the absolute right to hurt her. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> Like
Sheryl, thousands of girls around the world are led to believe that
they deserve to be ill treated, dream-deprived, uneducated and
silenced. Let us reverse that legacy for the silenced girls of the
world by helping Sheryl speak loud and far. Make her voice reach </span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><b>at
least one million people</b></span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">.
We can do it. Together. With your help, Sheryl will no longer face
the world alone. With your support, Sheryl’s voice will be heard.
</span>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0.13in;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">You
help broadcast Sheryl’s voice when you tell 5 people or more to get
</span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><i>The Talking
Palm</i></span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> at </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0.13in;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span>
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> </span>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0.13in;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">Then
tell each of the five or more to tell 5 others and so on. </span>
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> On
behalf of the once silenced Sheryls of the world, I thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> Esther
Jno-Charles</span></div>
Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-21110243451319443182014-02-17T10:52:00.000-08:002014-02-24T07:08:57.680-08:00Invited or not Invited to the Wedding<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> In
<i>The Talking Palm</i>, nineteen-year old Sheryl is preparing to get
married, but she does not invite her closest friends and relatives.
Sheryl lives in a small village where everyone knows who your friends
are and who are not. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> Therefore, not inviting close associates whom
people expect to be invited will elicit vicious gossip and ill-will
toward Sheryl. Sheryl knows that, and that bothers her. Yet, she
does it anyway. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> Ladies,
should your close friends and relatives be expected to be invited to
your wedding? Which friends or relatives would you not or did you
not invite to your wedding? </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> Share
your thoughts and or experiences.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> By
Esther Jno-Charles</span></div>
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</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Book: The
Talking Palm</span></span><span style="color: black;"><b>:</b></span><span style="color: black;">How</span><span style="color: black;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
childhood storms of a young woman’s life remained hidden until a
palm fruit started talking: </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzB</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></div>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-65977707766596625052014-02-10T12:55:00.000-08:002014-02-10T13:02:43.243-08:00Is Sheryl Psychologically Ready to Get Married?<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> In
<i>The Talking Palm,</i> nineteen-year old Sheryl is planning to get
married, but she is very frustrated. Neither she nor her family can
invite their relatives or friends to her wedding. According to
Sheryl's fianc<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">é</span>, Marvin,
Sheryl's associates are not religious folks (130-138). </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Yet,
Sheryl or her family do not resist Marvin's demand or ask him to
reciprocate. Instead, they grudgingly comply but complain behind
his back. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">When
Sheryl blindly obeys Marvin's demand without holding a serious
discussion or calling for mutual compromise, is she setting up the
stage for a disastrous relationship? Has she created an unhealthy
template of how her husband should treat her in the future? </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Does
Sheryl's misery about her decision to comply while simultaneously
feeling powerless to direct her path show a fundamental flaw in
Sheryl's character? Isn't she morally obligated to nurture her soul,
which in turn will enhance the quality of her relationships? <b> </b>Is
Sheryl mature enough to make right decisions for her good?</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> What
do you think? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> By Esther Jno-Charles </span>
</div>
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<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Read
about Sheryl in <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
Talking Palm</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>:</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>How</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>the
childhood storms of a young woman’s life remained hidden until a
palm fruit started talking</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></span></span></h2>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-84608648859991706012013-11-26T13:09:00.000-08:002013-11-26T13:09:10.095-08:00Uncomfortable in Her Tall Skin
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> When
nineteen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>-year old
Sheryl enters holy matrimony, according to <i>The Talking Palm:</i>
<i>How the childhood storms of a</i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>young
woman’s life remained hidden until a palm fruit started talking:</i></span></span>
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></span>
she does so with a measure of low self-esteem. She thinks she is too
tall. In fact, she is taller than her peers and as tall as her
six-foot tall fiance. Sheryl does not like that. She does not want
to be as tall as her fianc<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">é</span>.
That makes her uncomfortable, especially because she grows up hearing
and believing that girls should be shorter than men.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> But Sheryl has
never fitted that man-woman height mold. To her, she has always
towered over her peers. In fact, when she was younger, she felt so
desperate, that she asked God to shorten her. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">She
now stands at the threshold of womanhood, and looks across her
fianc<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">é's</span> face, not up at
him. Sheryl is not happy about that because the ability to look up
at the man, she thinks, is what makes a woman feel pretty, fragile
and feminine. She goes into her wedding not feeling as feminine and
pretty as her shorter girlfriends.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> The
problem here is that teenager Sheryl has not yet learned that God,
not culture, should be the source of her identity. If she discovers
and believes whom God says she is and what He thinks of her, that
knowledge is enough to ground her and build her up into a confident
and powerful young woman. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> How
do you think a young woman's dependence on societal norms of beauty
can impact her sense of self and hence, her marriage?</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Esther Jno-Charles </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-43059405448915639932013-05-14T06:31:00.000-07:002013-05-14T06:31:59.279-07:00Your “Talking Palm Moment”
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hi
Friends,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheryl
is thirty-eight years, a mother of three and a student at Smith
College in Northampton with a writing assignment that is due
in a few days. She does not know what to
write. Even though lots of ideas spin through her mind, they seem
irrelevant and uninteresting. The fact that her assignment is based
on her childhood experiences does not necessarily help her. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheryl is in trouble. S</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he </span></span></span>may not be able to submit her homework on time. Late work will lower her grade. <span style="font-size: small;"></span>How
embarrassing would that be? </span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Fortunately,
Sheryl does not have to spend another night pecking <span style="font-size: small;">at</span> her head for
specks of inspiration. A coconut shows up unexpectedly in a bag of
groceries her brother brings in from New York City. Sheryl has used the
coconut so many times in her adult life without it reminding her of
her childhood connections to it. But somehow, that night, seeing
and feeling that brown palm triggers her childhood memories.</span> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Talking Palm </span></span><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The mere appearance of that hard-shelled palm fruit opens Sheryl's
heart. Sheryl has a "talking palm moment," for out of <span style="font-size: small;">her</span> heart, like the water in the nut, pours forth some of her childhood experiences, happy and sad. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
night, Sheryl's grade is saved. </span></span></span>
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is your “talking palm moment”? Where were
you in your life when something you were once connected to stormed
back into your life, triggering memories you thought you had
forgotten? </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read
Sheryl's stories at </span></span><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://www.<a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a></span></i></span></span></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Urge
5 other people to read as well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forever at your service, </span></span></span>
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Esther
Jno-Charles</span></span></span></div>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-45590246062218172382013-05-06T06:57:00.000-07:002013-05-06T06:57:17.882-07:00Coconut Milk and Cocoa
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">When
he wanted someone to fetch the breakfast that my mother had prepared
for him, hot</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>
cocoa without milk</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
codfish stewed with coconut oil and onions, and lettuce and tomato
salad, I was it.” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Talking Palm</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://amzn.to/175EzBh</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sheryl,
the main character in </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Talking Palm</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://amzn.to/175EzBh</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
grows up helping her father bake bread in her family's bakery in
Dominica. She usually gets up while the village is still asleep to
help her father prepare the bread for the morning rush. In addition
to kneading and rolling and blasting dough into loaves, albeit to her
father's dissatisfaction, Sheryl does other errands, which she would
prefer not to do, but must. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">One
of these errands includes fetching her father's breakfast. Sometimes
that breakfast includes hot cocoa with no milk. Without milk, the
tea is deep brown with a pure earthy taste. Who could afford to buy
evaporated or powder milk to whiten cocoa tea and make it more
palatable? But sweetened cocoa tea flavored with cinnamon or lime
skin or bay leaf or nutmeg tasted as good as it could be. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Coconut
milk could surely add a delicious blast to the dark cocoa. But
Sheryl's mother would have had to find the coconut, break it, grind
it and then milk it for its tongue-pleasing effect. Which mother has
that time? </span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Fortunately,
in America, we don't need that hard labor. We can just run to our
local supermarket, grab a tin of coconut milk, one of the healthiest
milks in the world, and add some to our cocoa tea. Then, while
relaxing at the table, we just surrender to that tongue-teasing
flavor of coconut milk and cocoa. Ah. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">By
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Talking Palm </i></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">http://amzn.to/175EzBh</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span></div>
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In “<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">The Skerrit,” a story in <i>The Talking Palm</i>, little Sheryl thinks she is going to die in a house in the ocean. She thinks she deserves such cruel punishment for her truancy. She also believes that no one, not even her mother, can rescue her from the tragedy that awaits her. So she stands alone, scared, powerless and silent before a powerful adult her culture has led her to believe has the absolute right to hurt her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">Like Sheryl, thousands of girls around the world are led to believe that they deserve to be ill treated, dream-deprived, uneducated and silenced. Let us reverse that legacy for the silenced girls of the world by helping Sheryl speak loud and far. Make her voice reach </span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><b>at least one million people</b></span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">. We can do it. Together. With your help, Sheryl will no longer face the world alone. With your support, Sheryl’s voice will be heard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">You broadcast Sheryl’s voice when you tell 5 people or more to get </span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><i>The Talking Palm</i></span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif; font-size: small;">:</span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How the childhood storms of a young woman’s life remained hidden until a palm fruit started talkin</span></span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif; font-size: small;">g</span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">at amazon.com: </span><span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh">amzn.to/175EzBh</a> </b></i></span></span></u></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">Then tell each of the five or more to tell 5 others and so on. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif, sans-serif;">On behalf of the once silenced Sheryls of the world, I thank you.</span></div>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-25952126672807272662013-04-01T10:19:00.001-07:002013-04-01T10:21:19.066-07:00To Take or Not to Take the Biscuit <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Fourteen-year old Sheryl loves Shirley Biscuits. Twenty-five year old Sam knows that. Sheryl also knows that Sam does not like her family. One night, Sheryl rushes to her neighbor's store to buy some last-minute groceries. There, she encounters Sam, the shopkeeper's cousin. He is alone.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Before Sheryl can even ask for what she wants, Sam throws her a dangerous proposal: he will give her a free packet of Shirley Biscuit in exchange for sex. Suddenly, the teenager is confronted with a dilemma: should she or should she not take the thing she loves? </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> What do you think Sheryl does? What do you think of Sam? Are there moral problems immediately apparent in Sam's proposal? Do teenagers ask their peers to make such choices regularly, daily? Do adults ask adults to compromise their moral values for material gains? Have you ever faced such a dilemma? How did you deal with it?</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Read The Biscuit, a story in my autobiographical book </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Talking Palm:</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://amzn.to/175EzBh"><i>amzn.to/175EzBh</i></a></u></span></span><i> </i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">see how Sheryl resolves that crisis.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Tell teenagers and mothers about it. Strike a conversation with them about the dilemma the story poses. Who knows? Your telling could change a teenager's life, for good. </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Have fun. </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Thank you</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> When
I grew up in The Commonwealth of Dominica, coconut foods were some of
my favorite foods.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roasted
coconut with the fresh butter loaves were irresistible. Copra, the
coconut fruit that forms when the coconut dries inside its shell is
oh so delicious. What a goodness gracious smell it gives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Have
you heard of coconut tabl</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">è</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t?
I lived for it. My friends and I had to find a way to get some
pennies to buy those sweet coconut treats on our way back or our
school day was not complete. Why? “</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
were finely grated, light and fluffy; others were thinly sliced,
compact and sticky. The stickier they were, the sweeter, and the
sweeter they were, the better.” </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(The
Talking Palm</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
http://amzn.to/ukoL9u</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
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vendors made it so easy to tempt our little noses and inquisitive
eyes. They kept those lick-your-finger sweets right where we could
see them as we walked to and from school. Of course, tabl</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">è</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
addicts like me knew which gates to peek over and which windows to
focus our envious attentions before we got through the doors. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Let's
not forget the delectable coconut jelly swimming inside its own water
in a green coconut. On a hot day, that jelly brings cool relief to a
thirsty tongue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Did
i introduce you to </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>sanngkotj,
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
out-of-this</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">universe
gravy my mother used to make with stewed meat and coconut milk? How
did I delve into that rich goodness? With fingers of course. Five
fingers. Shhh. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before
I send you on a coconut rampage, I must remind you of coconut ice
cream. Have you tried it? Do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Try
something coconut. Let me know what you think.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Coconuts. Sheryl's favorite food in </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Talking Palm:</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">http://amzn.to/ukoL9u</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
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Get </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
book. See what else Sheryl did with that tropical fruit. What was
your favorite part? Tweet/blog it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An entire
community converged upon a tiny Baptist church in the village of Salisbury,
Dominica, one sunny April day in 1993. They came to see the mouth of a man who
made them laugh, who dominated their conversations, who sold them bread, who bought
their agricultural products for resale, finally silenced in death. People of
all stripes of life lined that white bungalow, bringing their memories of my
father with them: one brother from Antigua, another from England, my mother from
New York, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>business associates, religious friends,
customs’ officers, relatives, neighbors, the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From far and near, from villages and towns they
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that village of
about two thousand people, my three brothers and sister eulogized my seventy-three
year old father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said that whenever
he came from the family garden he first divided his ground provisions and then
religiously sent his children to distribute to our neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They shared that when he shopped, he always
got exactly what he wanted: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the biggest head
of fish, the leanest cut of beef or the firmest ripe fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They remembered how he made fun of himself and
had everybody that came to buy his bread, laughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said that he insisted that his children
never steal, and commanded <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>us to return
the limes we sometimes stole back to the owner’s farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They revealed how he made his children bring
back the extra change that the shopkeepers sometimes mistakenly gave us when we
bought groceries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they troubled my
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I was not there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not at the funeral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it hurt. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurt that I was not there to forgive my father
in person for the times he called me monkey and stupid when I did not knead the
dough the way he wanted me to, and when he said I was worse than a prostitute
when I spoke to boys while I was still a virgin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurt that I could not tell my father I
forgive him because as an adult I finally understood he cared about me even
though he used the twisted means he knew how to protect me from what he thought
were the ravages of youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurt that I
could not tell my father’s silent ears that I had picked up the phone numerous times
to forgive him but was afraid to speak into his open ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurt that I had lost the last chance to
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will my father ever
know about the letters of forgiveness I wrote him, in my mind, before he died?
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Esther Jno-Charles </span></div>
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-24248597117801292162012-04-06T11:38:00.000-07:002012-04-06T11:38:43.871-07:00How the stories we tell children influence the type of treatment children believe they deserve<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Excerpt from "The Skerrit" in <i>The Talking Palm</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Any moment now the skerrit could take me and place me in the old leaky fishing boat that people said he always used. He would take me past the school house, past the boathouses covered with coconut branches, past the jetty littered with empty coconut shells, row me to a dilapidated wooden house in the middle of the angry Atlantic Ocean, and abandon me at a spot only the skerrit knew about. If I could not swim well, I would drown. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The skerrit’s sea house was one the government built to punish truant children like me, people said… </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(45)<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A classroom is a place where children should feel safe and protected. But according to “The Skerrit,” a story in <i>The Talking Palm</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://amzn.to/ukoL9u,<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheryl waits in her classroom for a man to take her to the ocean and let her drown as punishment for her truancy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to the story, eight-year old Sheryl:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">- accepts the cruel punishment as appropriate for her truancy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">- believes she deserves the punishment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">- expects no one to help or rescue her <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">- never cries out for help<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">- does not try to defend herself<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">- does not tell her parents before or after her encounter with the skerrit <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The "skerrit" is a cultural myth that some Dominican adults previously used to frighten children to stay in school in. According to that myth, the country gave a mysterious man permission to punish truant children by drowning them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do you think the cultural myths we share with our children affect their self worth and influence the type of treatment children think they deserve? </span></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Talking Palm:</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://amzn.to/ukoL9u</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">How do you feel for little Sheryl in the story? Like Sheryl, have you ever had a “skerrit" moment? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Esther Jno-Charles</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-73276899077709169752012-02-03T12:13:00.000-08:002012-02-03T12:13:26.572-08:0010 sy Steps to Writing a Book Review on Amazon.com<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Go to Amazon.com or use the book's link to take you to the page on Amazon.com.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. If you go directly to amazon.com, write the name of the book (like <i>The Talking Palm </i>or the author'<i>s </i>name<i>)</i> into the search box.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. Click on the image of the book for which you want to write a review.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. Beside the book image that emerges after that click, and on the right hand side of the book is a phrase that says, "Be the first to review this item."</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. Click on that link.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. It will take you to a login page that also has the 3-4 simple steps to write your review.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.</span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two of the easy steps include rating the book out of five stars and choosing either a video or written review. Choose one, preferably written. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8. Don't worry or be afraid that your review may not be like the professionals'. It does not need to be. You read the book. You have an opinion. Your opinion is important. Express it!</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.4pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Esther Jno-Charles</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">uthor of The Talking Palm: How the childhood storms of a young woman's life remained hidden until a palm fruit started talking: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/AuEk0Z"><span class="hash"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">amzn.to/AuEk0Z</span></i></b></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-91184152364084609862011-12-28T13:14:00.000-08:002011-12-28T13:14:14.463-08:00Writing Tips<div style="background-color: #fdedc0;"><span class="size12 Helvetica12" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; min-height: 18px;"></span><center><span class="size12 Helvetica12" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; min-height: 18px;"> </span></center></div><div style="background-color: #fdedc0;"><span class="size12 Helvetica12" style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; min-height: 18px;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>This week, reduce my sugar intake to shed some extra fat<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>weight: 267lbs<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>#Weight loss goal for the week: lose 4-8lbs<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">#Exercise Plan<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="Standard">Monday: back/chest/belly, 1hour aerobics</div><div class="Standard">Tuesday: 1 hour walk</div><div class="Standard">Wednesday: thighs/ butt/belly, 1 hour aerobics</div><div class="Standard">Thursday 1 hour walk/run-<b>optiona</b>l</div><div class="Standard"></div><div class="Standard">Friday: arms/shoulder/thighs, 1 hour aerobics</div><div class="Standard"><br />
</div><div class="Standard">I can do all things through Christ who empowers me.</div><div class="Standard"><br />
</div><div class="Standard">I hope that sharing my journey to #restoration of excellent #health will inspire someone to take that first step or continue the journey.</div><div class="Standard">Thank you</div><div class="Standard">Esther Jno-Charles</div><br />
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</div>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-77445792804957411712011-10-09T18:32:00.000-07:002011-10-09T18:32:57.296-07:00A Rose is Born<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A Rose is Born</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br />
</div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A single bud sits amidst the prairie stems.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">The sun shines freely in the morning sky,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Radiating its golden rays into a dazed and sleepy pond.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A red velvet petal unfolds, beckoning invisible forces.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">The wind blows openly throughout the meadow's sweetness.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Rippling through the green summer grass,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Refreshing the single bud.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A velvet petal unfolds itself,</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Awakening the lazy pond.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A velvet petal unfolds itself,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Bringing the wonders of life into motion.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Green leaves burst from the swaying stem,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Boasting the never-dying beauty that will now, not always, show though to the world.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A velvet petal unfolds itself.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="yiv1087679957gmail_quote" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318209644472110" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-left: 1ex;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318209644472107"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318209644472104" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1318209644472101"><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A baby mouse playfully bats at the leaves.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Circling</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Squeaking, jumping up, scampering around.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">A velvet petal unfolds itself and warms the groggy pond.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Filling it with feelings of happiness,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Erasing all moments of despair.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Inspired, the sunlit pond whispers its favorite song,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Opening the eyes of wilderness,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">With its gleaming yellow glow.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Lightening evermore the spirit of the growing wonder.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Which will in a period of time,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">have such an effect on a single mind,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">This one single rose,</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">That will change the lives, the destiny, of many.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div align="center" id="yui_3_2_0_1_131820964447298" style="text-align: center;">By Odella Chrislyn Jno-Charles <span>at </span>11yrs</div></div></div></div></blockquote>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-75926815572916483452011-10-05T13:11:00.000-07:002011-10-05T13:11:03.448-07:00Great author Michael Hicks.check out this great author's website: ski fi/fantasy. He has a free kindle book as well. <br />
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<a href="http://kimyunalesca.blogspot.com/2011/07/author-interview-esther-jno-charles.html">http://kimyunalesca.blogspot.com/2011/07/author-interview-esther-jno-charles.html</a>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-88829259265083709182011-09-03T01:10:00.000-07:002011-09-03T01:10:27.878-07:00SET IN DOMINICAFUN VIDEO ABOUT DOMINICA WHERE MY NOVEL #THETALKINGPALM: <i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">http://amzn.to/q74opJ</span></i>, AND #WIDESARGASSOSEA AND #PIRATESOFTHECARIBBEAN ARE SET: http://bit.ly/nzMBne.<br />
#DOMINICA is a wonderful, fun #destination for #ecofriendly tourists, #naturelovers, #hikers, #divers, romantic lovers, artists, #adventureseekers and others!<br />
Check out the DOMINICA video and leave your comments: http://bit.ly/nzMBne.<br />
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Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-73292072923492550252011-09-01T12:14:00.001-07:002011-09-01T12:14:57.849-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">CHEAP CHEAP BOOKS! ONLY 99c!<br />This WONDERFUL group includes avid readers of a rainbow of books! So THIS #LABOR DAY WEEKEND, take this unique opportunity to #SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS AND GRAB tons of GREAT BOOKS!SOoooo CHEAP!<br /><br />check this:<br />#INDIEBOOKBLOWOUT! 9/2-9/5! GRAB my book #THETALKINGPALM & other GREAT books for ONLY 99¢! Plus #FREEKINDLE AND GIFT CARDS: <a href="http://bit.ly/pNbZKA" rel="nofollow" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/pNbZKA</a> STOCK UP!<br />Thank you<br />Esther Jno-Charles<br />Author: The Talking Palm </span>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279661113288183989.post-44478442284103700662011-08-25T14:22:00.000-07:002011-08-25T15:05:57.124-07:00READ AND REVIEW THE TALKING PALM IN 7 DAYS!I AM GIVING AWAY 7 #KINDLE eBOOKS OF THE TALKING PALM IN A FUN GAME!<br />
YOU DO NOT NEED A KINDLE. SIMPLY DOWNLOAD A KINDLE APP. FOR PC, BLACKBERRY, ETC.<br />
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PLAN: I want 7 people who are willing to READ my novel, REVIEW and RATE the book on amazon.com FIRST, then PASTE the same review on goodreads.com. <b><u>ALL DONE IN 7 DAYS OR LESS. </u></b><br />
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The Talking Palm is an easy read! It is great inspirational book for teen girls and for young and mature female adults! Men can read it to, especially if they have teenage or young adult daughters or plan to.<br />
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<b><u>HERE IS HOW THE PLAN WORKS</u></b>.<br />
(1) If you agree to THE PLAN ABOVE, then from August 25th-August 26th, submit your email to the "Follow by email" box under the calender on my blog: <a href="http://estherjno-charles.blogspot.com/">http://estherjno-charles.blogspot.com/</a> I need YOUR email to send the gift!<br />
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(2) From the email list, I will randomly choose 7 candidates to gift the #kindle ebook to after midnight on August 26th.<br />
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(3) Everybody will receive their email notification of the gifted book from amazon.com on August 27th. <br />
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(4) I will post the winners's names on goodreads.com as well.<br />
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(5)The time game is on from August 28th - September 4th!<br />
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(6) I look forward to seeing your reviews on amazon.com and goodreads.com<br />
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(7) Thanks for your wonderful participation.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Author: The Talking Palm </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Esther Jno-Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749985983612478068noreply@blogger.com0