Saturday, October 16, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Ed.D. Independent Scholar
DiEdwardo, Maryann. The Fourth “R” A Book to Promote the Journey through Hispanic American Literary History to Develop Language Skills. Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse, 2008. Review: “Dr. DiEdwardo's book is a ‘must have’ for all educators, especially for those who teach students of other languages. The book is simple, and its components are easy to follow. What I find particularly compelling about this book is the idea to use authors from the students' home country to enhance self-esteem and pride, in addition to creating individual voices. ” Toni Velleca, ESOL Teacher
Books by Maryann DiEdwardo:
The Fourth R. Music Transforms the College English Classroom; The Legacy of Katharine Hepburn, Fine Art As A Way of Life; Pennsylvania Voices Book VII Living Literacy through Technology and Music to Develop Self-Efficacy in Computer Enhanced College English Composition Classes
Pennsylvania Voices Book IX journaling, blog, wiki, tools for writers; Pennsylvania Voices Book X Writing Based on History: Techniques to Teach Writing through History
Books by DiEdwardo, Maryann and Pasda Patricia:
The Horse Keeper: The Healing Gifts of Painting and Writing about Horses. Philadelphia: Infinity Publishing, U.S.A. 2008.
The Art of Trees
Pennsylvania Voices Book I The Horse Prophet
Pennsylvania Voices Book II Appaloosa Visions
Pennsylvania Voices Book III Appaloosa Dreams
Pennsylvania Voices Book IV The River Keeper
Pennsylvania Voices Book V The Legacy of Allison
Pennsylvania Voices Book VI Collection of Fiction and Non-Fiction
Pennsylvania Voices Book VIII The Artist’s Sketch Book
The Marvelous Nature Alphabet Book
Horses about Hope, the art of myth, legend, and graphic writing
On Healing: Inspiration through Writing, the writer’s voice
Pennsylvania Voices On Healing: Cancer Survival Through Prayer, Painting and Writing. Orlando, Xulon Press, 2007
DiEdwardo and Pasda. The Passing Light. American Book Publishing. Due 2010.
Books by Maryann DiEdwardo:
The Fourth R. Music Transforms the College English Classroom; The Legacy of Katharine Hepburn, Fine Art As A Way of Life; Pennsylvania Voices Book VII Living Literacy through Technology and Music to Develop Self-Efficacy in Computer Enhanced College English Composition Classes
Pennsylvania Voices Book IX journaling, blog, wiki, tools for writers; Pennsylvania Voices Book X Writing Based on History: Techniques to Teach Writing through History
Books by DiEdwardo, Maryann and Pasda Patricia:
The Horse Keeper: The Healing Gifts of Painting and Writing about Horses. Philadelphia: Infinity Publishing, U.S.A. 2008.
The Art of Trees
Pennsylvania Voices Book I The Horse Prophet
Pennsylvania Voices Book II Appaloosa Visions
Pennsylvania Voices Book III Appaloosa Dreams
Pennsylvania Voices Book IV The River Keeper
Pennsylvania Voices Book V The Legacy of Allison
Pennsylvania Voices Book VI Collection of Fiction and Non-Fiction
Pennsylvania Voices Book VIII The Artist’s Sketch Book
The Marvelous Nature Alphabet Book
Horses about Hope, the art of myth, legend, and graphic writing
On Healing: Inspiration through Writing, the writer’s voice
Pennsylvania Voices On Healing: Cancer Survival Through Prayer, Painting and Writing. Orlando, Xulon Press, 2007
DiEdwardo and Pasda. The Passing Light. American Book Publishing. Due 2010.
Friday, February 26, 2010
E-Book Excerpt Pennsylvania Voices Book X Writing Based On History
Pennsylvania Voices Book X
Writing Based On History: Techniques to develop independent writers through history involve strategies to reach the writers via conversations that lead to writing process abilities
By Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Ghandi
My strengths come from the greater glory of God, faith that is unwavering, and devotion to the fine arts.
For my family
Contents
About Writing
Essays
Techniques to develop independent writers through history involve
strategies to reach the writers via conversations that lead to writing
process abilities
Historiography
Sample Chapter from The Fourth R
Glossary
About the Author
About Writing
To write, we engage memories of readings, life experiences and imagination. Accordingly, these three patterns compose voice on the written page. Writing comes to us early in life as we experience the need to communicate. Beyond the early experiences in schooling, we continue to write. Unknown to most, writing is a habit that takes the form of digital email or the shopping list. But, writing is an essential like skill needed for human dignity.
Voice creates thesis. Use third person with a combination of elements to write a strong argumentative position based thesis: three elements of language such as diction, voice, syntax, paired with an active verb to show analysis, an element of literary skill such as fiction, drama, poetry, and add a primary source or author. For instance, Shakespeare utilizes voice, diction and syntax in the monologues of Hamlet to create characterization
Ultimately, painting and writing are personal journeys determined by the mind, spirit, emotional ability to try to find voices and to hear the inner voices and listen. Therefore, creators listen to their own voices first. The letter is the most vital part of our writing process as we communicate important data. Letters are prose or straight forward language with sentences and compositions in plain English. We touch upon different types of prose in our writing segment of the healing process since the words that generate the most healing are usually those that come from our inner core that we think through in plain English or in our native language. All writers whether they are youngsters of the age of two or the elderly have vital voices in their selected language. Therefore, we believe that the school system should be practical and teach multi linguistically. The thought process shall be respected and cherished as the paramount feature of the human mind. All learning and healing starts with the dignity of the mind and the language most understandable. Writing, an art, is a necessary endeavor natural for the growth of human intelligence. The artistic creative part of each individual must be nurtured as a natural course of education. Art can be taught to the young child as is reading and mathematics. Ideally, art should be sighted as just as vital a subject for develop of life skills.
Essays
Essays have central theses. Design main theses in the introductions usually as the last sentences, topic sentences in developmental paragraphs with concluding statements in all paragraphs and details to support as well as concluding statement paragraphs.
Sentence Outline Example:
Troy Outline
I. Introduction. Thesis Statement: Over the centuries, people’s fascination with Homer’s Troy has spurred them to action, from conquest to poetry, from myth to science.
II. A summary of the Iliad. Topic Sentence: At first glance, one may wonder how the story of Troy could have fascinated so many people, but it is easier to see when one has gained a true appreciation of this great literary work.
III. The fascination with Homer’s Troy. Topic Sentence: The infatuation with Troy has gripped many people, both famous and ordinary, from ancient to modern times.
IV. Heinrich Shleimann’s investigations. Topic Sentence: Heinrich Schleimann’s nearly insane obsession with Troy led him to take drastic measures: digging it up.
V. Later archeological discoveries. Topic Sentence: The archeologists after Schleimann used more organized scientific (and less damaging) methods to preserve and learn more about Troy.
VI. Conclusion. Topic Sentence: Troy has managed to survive nearly every ordeal, from earthquakes and fire to Schleimann’s reckless excavations, and still manages to enthrall people today.
Introduction
Troy. Trojan War. These words have tickled the ears and imaginations of many for millennia. People who have never even seen Troy have fallen in love with the ancient city; its captivating nature is so great. This is the city that Homer wrote about in his famous epic, The Iliad. This is the city that so fascinated Heinrich Schliemann, the man who began the first archeological excavations of Troy. This small city, that lies upon the northwest corner of Turkey, has been the inspiration of artists, writers, rulers, military commanders, et cetera. Yet, this city has also caused great controversy. Many have wondered, was there really a Trojan War? And even, before it was proven true, was there really a Troy? Perhaps it is this very controversy that has caused Troy to be so captivating. Those who believe in Troy and the Trojan War cannot only believe passively; they must fight for their love against those who would try to disprove it. They must have a passion for Troy. Over the centuries, people’s fascination with Homer’s Troy has spurred them to action, from conquest to poetry, from myth to science.
Sample Essay Draft One
The Elements of Composition in the Art of Pocahontas
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Ed.D.
The elements of composition in the art of Pocahontas include line, form, space, color or tone and texture as well as symbolic imagery and style. Visibly different, from varied periods of history, two particular pieces from Dr.Edward Gallagher’s online gallery of Pocahontas art reveal how elements of composition change our views of the young woman. Interestingly, an engraving entitled Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe (1616) {Illustration #1 in the digital gallery collection of 155 Pocahontas illustrations selected by Dr. Edward Gallagher) and an oil painting by Howard Chandler Christy (#148 in the same digital gallery collection) also entitled Pocahontas (1911) provide contrasting views of the famous young Powhatan woman known as Pocahontas through the artists’ unique applications of the elements of composition.
Simon van de Passe uses line to create form in an oval space with only black and white in his engraving. A skilled draftsman, Simon employs portrait art technique as style in the design of the face of the young woman. A stiff woman sits in the center of an oval as the only image. In Pocahontas Her Life and Legend, William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton explain that “Simon van de Passe depicted ‘Matoaka als Rebecka’ in a 1616 engraving and so provided the only likeness contrived during her lifetime, though this portrayal may be unrepresentational because it gives us the daughter of ‘Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck’ as the Virginia Company, her sponsor, and the artist wanted her to be seen” (Rasmussen and Tilton 10). A static image centers the pictorial plane with no emotion or background. She seems to be unaware of her surrounding. Historically, the most interesting feature of the work may be the recorded fact that Simon van de Passe’s engraved portrait is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life (Nova. Pocahontas Revealed). A recent NOVA film notes that the inscription describes her as the daughter of a mighty emperor, and the ostrich feather in her hand is a symbol of royalty (Nova. Pocahontas Revealed). Smithsonian Institution remarks that “This engraved portrait of Pocahontas, created from life during her time in England, is the oldest work in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. Pocahontas, who took the Christian name Rebecca, sailed to England with husband John Rolfe in 1616” (Smithsonian). Clearly, for the artist Simon van de Passe, the elements of composition reveal a historically accurate approach in his engraving to show a particular view of Pocahontas.
In juxtaposition to the lack of emotion or passion of Pocahontas found in the Simon van de Passe engraving of 1616, we visit the beautiful yet emotional Pocahontas of Howard Chandler Christy (illustration #148 in the online collection) who depicts Pocahontas through a six foot oil painting with much more exuberance. Through vibrant color, line and form become a duality that exist in the landscape as stylistic features of a symbolic imagery filled space. “His ‘Christy Girl’ took the fashionable look and independent character of the Gibson Girl” and replaced some of the dignity of the latter with an increase in youthful sensuousness” (Rasmussen and Tilton 45). “She is clearly resisting” her English suitor (Rasmussen and Tilton 46). The left side of the painting shows nature with color contrasts surrounding an open armed young figure while the right side of the painting depicts darker and tighter compositional geometric patterns hovering around the male figure who kneels while holding her stiff hand. Style is the controlling element of composition for Christy as all the other techniques coincide to create a wonderful melody of art and message. Pocahontas, nature, and the dark male figure, join in a world of artistic and stylistic beauty.
The elements of line of the first piece, Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe (1616) {Illustration #1 in the digital gallery collection of 155 Pocahontas illustrations selected by Dr. Edward Gallagher) directly contrast the elements of color and style of the oil painting by Howard Chandler Christy (#148 in the same digital gallery collection) also entitled Pocahontas (1911). Invention becomes style for Christy as he took the character of Pocahontas and created a new American icon through imagery and style. Christy’s image portrays the first historical stage toward an apotheosis of an “American Girl.” (The Invention of the Western Film 78).
Works Cited
Pamphlet of Exhibition
Rasmussen, William M.S. and Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas, Her Life and Legend.
Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994.
Articles
Rasmussen, William. American Art Review. 1994. December. Online. Available. Access Date May 14 2008. http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=PERIODICALS&artist=23477
Books
Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film, A Cultural History of the Genre’s First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=pocahontas+chandler+christy&source=web&ots=ztlE7pIUoD&sig=j3sva9IILZIFOIIZ8uFlGedxnE0&hl=en
Web Sites
Nova. Pocahontas Revealed. This Web site was produced for PBS Online by
WGBH.Web site © 1996-2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. Online Available.
Access Date May 14, 2008. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pocahontas/
Smithsonian Source. Resources for Teaching American History. “Primary Sources”.
“Pocahontas Engraving”. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies.
Online. Available. Access Date May 14, 2008. http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?PrimarySourceId=1199
Writing Based On History: Techniques to develop independent writers through history involve strategies to reach the writers via conversations that lead to writing process abilities
By Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Ghandi
My strengths come from the greater glory of God, faith that is unwavering, and devotion to the fine arts.
For my family
Contents
About Writing
Essays
Techniques to develop independent writers through history involve
strategies to reach the writers via conversations that lead to writing
process abilities
Historiography
Sample Chapter from The Fourth R
Glossary
About the Author
About Writing
To write, we engage memories of readings, life experiences and imagination. Accordingly, these three patterns compose voice on the written page. Writing comes to us early in life as we experience the need to communicate. Beyond the early experiences in schooling, we continue to write. Unknown to most, writing is a habit that takes the form of digital email or the shopping list. But, writing is an essential like skill needed for human dignity.
Voice creates thesis. Use third person with a combination of elements to write a strong argumentative position based thesis: three elements of language such as diction, voice, syntax, paired with an active verb to show analysis, an element of literary skill such as fiction, drama, poetry, and add a primary source or author. For instance, Shakespeare utilizes voice, diction and syntax in the monologues of Hamlet to create characterization
Ultimately, painting and writing are personal journeys determined by the mind, spirit, emotional ability to try to find voices and to hear the inner voices and listen. Therefore, creators listen to their own voices first. The letter is the most vital part of our writing process as we communicate important data. Letters are prose or straight forward language with sentences and compositions in plain English. We touch upon different types of prose in our writing segment of the healing process since the words that generate the most healing are usually those that come from our inner core that we think through in plain English or in our native language. All writers whether they are youngsters of the age of two or the elderly have vital voices in their selected language. Therefore, we believe that the school system should be practical and teach multi linguistically. The thought process shall be respected and cherished as the paramount feature of the human mind. All learning and healing starts with the dignity of the mind and the language most understandable. Writing, an art, is a necessary endeavor natural for the growth of human intelligence. The artistic creative part of each individual must be nurtured as a natural course of education. Art can be taught to the young child as is reading and mathematics. Ideally, art should be sighted as just as vital a subject for develop of life skills.
Essays
Essays have central theses. Design main theses in the introductions usually as the last sentences, topic sentences in developmental paragraphs with concluding statements in all paragraphs and details to support as well as concluding statement paragraphs.
Sentence Outline Example:
Troy Outline
I. Introduction. Thesis Statement: Over the centuries, people’s fascination with Homer’s Troy has spurred them to action, from conquest to poetry, from myth to science.
II. A summary of the Iliad. Topic Sentence: At first glance, one may wonder how the story of Troy could have fascinated so many people, but it is easier to see when one has gained a true appreciation of this great literary work.
III. The fascination with Homer’s Troy. Topic Sentence: The infatuation with Troy has gripped many people, both famous and ordinary, from ancient to modern times.
IV. Heinrich Shleimann’s investigations. Topic Sentence: Heinrich Schleimann’s nearly insane obsession with Troy led him to take drastic measures: digging it up.
V. Later archeological discoveries. Topic Sentence: The archeologists after Schleimann used more organized scientific (and less damaging) methods to preserve and learn more about Troy.
VI. Conclusion. Topic Sentence: Troy has managed to survive nearly every ordeal, from earthquakes and fire to Schleimann’s reckless excavations, and still manages to enthrall people today.
Introduction
Troy. Trojan War. These words have tickled the ears and imaginations of many for millennia. People who have never even seen Troy have fallen in love with the ancient city; its captivating nature is so great. This is the city that Homer wrote about in his famous epic, The Iliad. This is the city that so fascinated Heinrich Schliemann, the man who began the first archeological excavations of Troy. This small city, that lies upon the northwest corner of Turkey, has been the inspiration of artists, writers, rulers, military commanders, et cetera. Yet, this city has also caused great controversy. Many have wondered, was there really a Trojan War? And even, before it was proven true, was there really a Troy? Perhaps it is this very controversy that has caused Troy to be so captivating. Those who believe in Troy and the Trojan War cannot only believe passively; they must fight for their love against those who would try to disprove it. They must have a passion for Troy. Over the centuries, people’s fascination with Homer’s Troy has spurred them to action, from conquest to poetry, from myth to science.
Sample Essay Draft One
The Elements of Composition in the Art of Pocahontas
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Ed.D.
The elements of composition in the art of Pocahontas include line, form, space, color or tone and texture as well as symbolic imagery and style. Visibly different, from varied periods of history, two particular pieces from Dr.Edward Gallagher’s online gallery of Pocahontas art reveal how elements of composition change our views of the young woman. Interestingly, an engraving entitled Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe (1616) {Illustration #1 in the digital gallery collection of 155 Pocahontas illustrations selected by Dr. Edward Gallagher) and an oil painting by Howard Chandler Christy (#148 in the same digital gallery collection) also entitled Pocahontas (1911) provide contrasting views of the famous young Powhatan woman known as Pocahontas through the artists’ unique applications of the elements of composition.
Simon van de Passe uses line to create form in an oval space with only black and white in his engraving. A skilled draftsman, Simon employs portrait art technique as style in the design of the face of the young woman. A stiff woman sits in the center of an oval as the only image. In Pocahontas Her Life and Legend, William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton explain that “Simon van de Passe depicted ‘Matoaka als Rebecka’ in a 1616 engraving and so provided the only likeness contrived during her lifetime, though this portrayal may be unrepresentational because it gives us the daughter of ‘Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck’ as the Virginia Company, her sponsor, and the artist wanted her to be seen” (Rasmussen and Tilton 10). A static image centers the pictorial plane with no emotion or background. She seems to be unaware of her surrounding. Historically, the most interesting feature of the work may be the recorded fact that Simon van de Passe’s engraved portrait is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life (Nova. Pocahontas Revealed). A recent NOVA film notes that the inscription describes her as the daughter of a mighty emperor, and the ostrich feather in her hand is a symbol of royalty (Nova. Pocahontas Revealed). Smithsonian Institution remarks that “This engraved portrait of Pocahontas, created from life during her time in England, is the oldest work in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. Pocahontas, who took the Christian name Rebecca, sailed to England with husband John Rolfe in 1616” (Smithsonian). Clearly, for the artist Simon van de Passe, the elements of composition reveal a historically accurate approach in his engraving to show a particular view of Pocahontas.
In juxtaposition to the lack of emotion or passion of Pocahontas found in the Simon van de Passe engraving of 1616, we visit the beautiful yet emotional Pocahontas of Howard Chandler Christy (illustration #148 in the online collection) who depicts Pocahontas through a six foot oil painting with much more exuberance. Through vibrant color, line and form become a duality that exist in the landscape as stylistic features of a symbolic imagery filled space. “His ‘Christy Girl’ took the fashionable look and independent character of the Gibson Girl” and replaced some of the dignity of the latter with an increase in youthful sensuousness” (Rasmussen and Tilton 45). “She is clearly resisting” her English suitor (Rasmussen and Tilton 46). The left side of the painting shows nature with color contrasts surrounding an open armed young figure while the right side of the painting depicts darker and tighter compositional geometric patterns hovering around the male figure who kneels while holding her stiff hand. Style is the controlling element of composition for Christy as all the other techniques coincide to create a wonderful melody of art and message. Pocahontas, nature, and the dark male figure, join in a world of artistic and stylistic beauty.
The elements of line of the first piece, Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe (1616) {Illustration #1 in the digital gallery collection of 155 Pocahontas illustrations selected by Dr. Edward Gallagher) directly contrast the elements of color and style of the oil painting by Howard Chandler Christy (#148 in the same digital gallery collection) also entitled Pocahontas (1911). Invention becomes style for Christy as he took the character of Pocahontas and created a new American icon through imagery and style. Christy’s image portrays the first historical stage toward an apotheosis of an “American Girl.” (The Invention of the Western Film 78).
Works Cited
Pamphlet of Exhibition
Rasmussen, William M.S. and Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas, Her Life and Legend.
Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994.
Articles
Rasmussen, William. American Art Review. 1994. December. Online. Available. Access Date May 14 2008. http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=PERIODICALS&artist=23477
Books
Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film, A Cultural History of the Genre’s First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=pocahontas+chandler+christy&source=web&ots=ztlE7pIUoD&sig=j3sva9IILZIFOIIZ8uFlGedxnE0&hl=en
Web Sites
Nova. Pocahontas Revealed. This Web site was produced for PBS Online by
WGBH.Web site © 1996-2007 WGBH Educational Foundation. Online Available.
Access Date May 14, 2008. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pocahontas/
Smithsonian Source. Resources for Teaching American History. “Primary Sources”.
“Pocahontas Engraving”. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies.
Online. Available. Access Date May 14, 2008. http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?PrimarySourceId=1199
E-Book Excerpt Pennsylvania Voices On Healing: Cancer Survival Through Prayer, Painting and Writing
Pennsylvania Voices On Healing: Cancer Survival Through Prayer, Painting and Writing
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo and Patricia J. Pasda
All characters and places in this work are fictional and any resemblance to persons or places living or dead is purely coincidental.
To Jesus
Who has gifted Patti Pasda with the survival of cancer to aid others through prayer, painting and writing. Patti continues to guide through her many books paintings and lectures for children as well as adults.
“And even some years ago, when they had revolted from the way which God had given them, to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations, and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.”
Book of Judith
Chapter 5
Holy Bible
Part One
1 Kings Chapter 10 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
Psalm 148
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars
Chapter I
We call this chapter Whisper since that is how we first learned of this tale. We traveled through a small town called Journey in the state of Pennsylvania, United States, Planet of Earth. Curiosity filled us every time we saw a building with a door that had no steps. As the door was about five feet from the ground, we often thought of who lived there and why the steps had been taken away for a new design that clearly made the door unless.
Then, we also looked over the keen hills and valleys of the town and saw the past sweep before us as a dream. The story of Journey expanded for us to represent that state where we were born into and the state where we will probably die too. As she breathes life into us, this land, land we know as Pennsylvania, fulfills life: the place of happiness, sadness, pain, waves of contentment and resentment. We find forgiveness in the rivers of the state and memories that fill us with gentleness through the art of story.
Land knows no boundaries. Dirt, sand, piles of moss exist and float as life forces of the planet earth. Pennsylvania Voices is a series about horses who helped the inhabitants of Pennsylvania understand the land. On a ride through Journey, we found our hearts.
Prayer has inspired us to write.
The horse prophet is prayer to Jesus unfolding in a symbolic way as a tribute to those who do not know Jesus yet, but who here the whispers of the Holy Spirit through the creatures that God placed upon the earth to help humans.
Maryann and Patti
Always the Wind
Chapter 2
Here is a story that seems to be told with the strength of the past voices of horse prophets who have helped us in our journey home. The town of Journey in Pennsylvania sweeps the land with beautiful contrasts. To the north are the coal mines and to the south are the rivers. In 2006, those who inhabit Journey are more interested in the termination of the use of fossil fuels. The fight for global warming trend has been a cause for awhile. But there are more internal causes that seem more important to us. Those are the battles for life and death when disease takes over the body.
Four hundred snows after the first prehistoric artifact laid upon the earth in a region called North America, the antiquity tribe of Nez Perce were the gentry of the Pacific Northwest. Calmly, the path of the first generations grew, changed, fled and disappeared. But their influence, the artifacts, would remain. It is that very gift of the earth that saved a special stone, a bright but small piece imbedded with the bone of a horse prophet that traveled with the package of a cedar tree sent to cheer a man dying of cancer, that would provide the voice and spirit who tells this tale. Beyond mere animal behavior and physical existence they possess the wisdom of all the generations, follow the law of the herd and soothe those who listen. They listen to the wind and if you quietly wait, you can hear the wind too.
Some stories must be told. Stories so great in depth they burst forth in writing like a butterfly from its cocoon. This is such a story: of the gift horses freely share with those who listen and understand. Myth presents us with a chance to dream of a past, present and future that soar with the possibilities of the horse as a prophet who enlightens humans.
Moonlight rays swept over the waves and hit the black rocks near the shore. When the sun rose the light flickered across the water and the rocks became azure reflections of the ocean’s blue. The townspeople called this place rocky winds, for the winds blew consistently and endlessly over the sand and rocks. Shells flickered n the light and gulls flew overhead. Here the wind, the sea, the people and the land were one.
The sun had just risen as my friend, Allison, glanced out the van window at this modest community and the lighthouse that was to be their new home. She paused for a few minutes to pick up a bright stone that caught her eye. The wind whistled through the van window. The black of the rocks turned to azure as the sun rose higher in the sky and the water reflected the light of the new day and the wind howled. The stone seemed to call to her so she kept it in her right pocket.
Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo and Patricia J. Pasda
All characters and places in this work are fictional and any resemblance to persons or places living or dead is purely coincidental.
To Jesus
Who has gifted Patti Pasda with the survival of cancer to aid others through prayer, painting and writing. Patti continues to guide through her many books paintings and lectures for children as well as adults.
“And even some years ago, when they had revolted from the way which God had given them, to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations, and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.”
Book of Judith
Chapter 5
Holy Bible
Part One
1 Kings Chapter 10 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
Psalm 148
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars
Chapter I
We call this chapter Whisper since that is how we first learned of this tale. We traveled through a small town called Journey in the state of Pennsylvania, United States, Planet of Earth. Curiosity filled us every time we saw a building with a door that had no steps. As the door was about five feet from the ground, we often thought of who lived there and why the steps had been taken away for a new design that clearly made the door unless.
Then, we also looked over the keen hills and valleys of the town and saw the past sweep before us as a dream. The story of Journey expanded for us to represent that state where we were born into and the state where we will probably die too. As she breathes life into us, this land, land we know as Pennsylvania, fulfills life: the place of happiness, sadness, pain, waves of contentment and resentment. We find forgiveness in the rivers of the state and memories that fill us with gentleness through the art of story.
Land knows no boundaries. Dirt, sand, piles of moss exist and float as life forces of the planet earth. Pennsylvania Voices is a series about horses who helped the inhabitants of Pennsylvania understand the land. On a ride through Journey, we found our hearts.
Prayer has inspired us to write.
The horse prophet is prayer to Jesus unfolding in a symbolic way as a tribute to those who do not know Jesus yet, but who here the whispers of the Holy Spirit through the creatures that God placed upon the earth to help humans.
Maryann and Patti
Always the Wind
Chapter 2
Here is a story that seems to be told with the strength of the past voices of horse prophets who have helped us in our journey home. The town of Journey in Pennsylvania sweeps the land with beautiful contrasts. To the north are the coal mines and to the south are the rivers. In 2006, those who inhabit Journey are more interested in the termination of the use of fossil fuels. The fight for global warming trend has been a cause for awhile. But there are more internal causes that seem more important to us. Those are the battles for life and death when disease takes over the body.
Four hundred snows after the first prehistoric artifact laid upon the earth in a region called North America, the antiquity tribe of Nez Perce were the gentry of the Pacific Northwest. Calmly, the path of the first generations grew, changed, fled and disappeared. But their influence, the artifacts, would remain. It is that very gift of the earth that saved a special stone, a bright but small piece imbedded with the bone of a horse prophet that traveled with the package of a cedar tree sent to cheer a man dying of cancer, that would provide the voice and spirit who tells this tale. Beyond mere animal behavior and physical existence they possess the wisdom of all the generations, follow the law of the herd and soothe those who listen. They listen to the wind and if you quietly wait, you can hear the wind too.
Some stories must be told. Stories so great in depth they burst forth in writing like a butterfly from its cocoon. This is such a story: of the gift horses freely share with those who listen and understand. Myth presents us with a chance to dream of a past, present and future that soar with the possibilities of the horse as a prophet who enlightens humans.
Moonlight rays swept over the waves and hit the black rocks near the shore. When the sun rose the light flickered across the water and the rocks became azure reflections of the ocean’s blue. The townspeople called this place rocky winds, for the winds blew consistently and endlessly over the sand and rocks. Shells flickered n the light and gulls flew overhead. Here the wind, the sea, the people and the land were one.
The sun had just risen as my friend, Allison, glanced out the van window at this modest community and the lighthouse that was to be their new home. She paused for a few minutes to pick up a bright stone that caught her eye. The wind whistled through the van window. The black of the rocks turned to azure as the sun rose higher in the sky and the water reflected the light of the new day and the wind howled. The stone seemed to call to her so she kept it in her right pocket.
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Pennsylvania Voices BOOK ONE
THE HORSE PROPHET
By Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo and Patricia J. Pasda
For J.D. and J.J.
All characters and places in this work are fictional and any resemblance to persons or places living or dead is purely coincidental.
Dedicated to The Nez Perce
PROLOGUE
“And even some years ago, when they had revolted from the way which God had given them, to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations, and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.”
Pennsylvania Voices BOOK ONE
THE HORSE PROPHET
By Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo and Patricia J. Pasda
For J.D. and J.J.
All characters and places in this work are fictional and any resemblance to persons or places living or dead is purely coincidental.
Dedicated to The Nez Perce
PROLOGUE
“And even some years ago, when they had revolted from the way which God had given them, to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations, and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.”
Writing between Rivers by Maryann DiEdwardo
Writing between Rivers by Maryann DiEdwardo
Rivers. Peace, Inner silence.
Rivers. Love. Inner hope. Echoes God.
Rivers. Faith. Inner trust. Echoes God.
Rivers. Let go of ego. Come into God.
Rivers. Come to peace. Welcome God.
Rivers. Soften Hearts. Prepare for God. Holy Rivers.
Rivers flow. In my heart. In my soul. God’s Rivers.
Rivers will be here long after I pass away. Rivers are spiritual spiritual. Work by rivers. Write by rivers.
Rivers. Peace, Inner silence.
Rivers. Love. Inner hope. Echoes God.
Rivers. Faith. Inner trust. Echoes God.
Rivers. Let go of ego. Come into God.
Rivers. Come to peace. Welcome God.
Rivers. Soften Hearts. Prepare for God. Holy Rivers.
Rivers flow. In my heart. In my soul. God’s Rivers.
Rivers will be here long after I pass away. Rivers are spiritual spiritual. Work by rivers. Write by rivers.
Both Dickens and DiEdwardo seek to change the cultural actions of society by writing and sharing novels.
Both Dickens and DiEdwardo seek to change the cultural actions of society by writing and sharing novels.
Lesson 1: research the use of social justice as a reason to write
Find a passion that moves you to research. Visit local libraries and read about your passion. For me, poverty runs thorugh my memory. I experienced her in my life at different moments. I remember! I suggest that you might read my book on the use of memory to write. The Fourth R is available through Authorhouse.com/bookstore
Lesson 2: design methodology of applying the social justice paradigm for writing
Trust your own writing methods. Write daily. Journaling is a great plan. I keep journals for regimens and save them in my home library. Refer back to your journals when you need writing material. Take your cause, for me, poverty, and experience through actions. I volunteer for a local soup kitchen. First of all, I learned that poverty is generous and can help all who serve, those who need food and those who serve the food. I learned to care about myself as I cared for others.
Lesson 3: characters and social justice
My sister Pat developed a character based on social justice. He was starved as a child in a similar manner to the starvation our father experienced in World War 2. We started with starvation. Then we developed a story.
Lesson 4: setting and social justice
The place should be based on your own experiences. I walk through forests near the town that I picked to stand as my setting. I feel the ground and write when I am really telling a truth based on imagination.
Lesson 5: mood creates voice to resound themes of social justice
Mood is the feeling the read gets from the book. What can your novel do for the reader? How can the voice of your created humans benefit others?
Lesson 6: themes dynamically bring us to a state of relaxation and vision to understand truths
We write to gain hope. Through her treatments, Pat talks about the books we write. View our complete works on our online posting areas such as my personal wiki space: http:maryannpasdadiedwardo.wikiaspaces.com and visit www.authorhouse.com/bookstore for my book lists.
Lesson 7: literature is inspirational
Your writing can change you as the works of Dickens changed him.
Lesson 8: symbolism in inspirational literature
Animals symbolize the natural world. we write about Pat's non-profit service dog organization. Poverty symbolizes the pain of the human condition.
Lesson 9: plot as a methodology of social justice
Our plots are based on our experiences.
Lesson 10: use a 21st century digital presentation
We blog our themes.
Lesson 11: reflect issues with the human condition
Poverty is a theme that reflects history and suffering.
Lesson 12: write about real experiences
You can write your own truths.
Lesson 1: research the use of social justice as a reason to write
Find a passion that moves you to research. Visit local libraries and read about your passion. For me, poverty runs thorugh my memory. I experienced her in my life at different moments. I remember! I suggest that you might read my book on the use of memory to write. The Fourth R is available through Authorhouse.com/bookstore
Lesson 2: design methodology of applying the social justice paradigm for writing
Trust your own writing methods. Write daily. Journaling is a great plan. I keep journals for regimens and save them in my home library. Refer back to your journals when you need writing material. Take your cause, for me, poverty, and experience through actions. I volunteer for a local soup kitchen. First of all, I learned that poverty is generous and can help all who serve, those who need food and those who serve the food. I learned to care about myself as I cared for others.
Lesson 3: characters and social justice
My sister Pat developed a character based on social justice. He was starved as a child in a similar manner to the starvation our father experienced in World War 2. We started with starvation. Then we developed a story.
Lesson 4: setting and social justice
The place should be based on your own experiences. I walk through forests near the town that I picked to stand as my setting. I feel the ground and write when I am really telling a truth based on imagination.
Lesson 5: mood creates voice to resound themes of social justice
Mood is the feeling the read gets from the book. What can your novel do for the reader? How can the voice of your created humans benefit others?
Lesson 6: themes dynamically bring us to a state of relaxation and vision to understand truths
We write to gain hope. Through her treatments, Pat talks about the books we write. View our complete works on our online posting areas such as my personal wiki space: http:maryannpasdadiedwardo.wikiaspaces.com and visit www.authorhouse.com/bookstore for my book lists.
Lesson 7: literature is inspirational
Your writing can change you as the works of Dickens changed him.
Lesson 8: symbolism in inspirational literature
Animals symbolize the natural world. we write about Pat's non-profit service dog organization. Poverty symbolizes the pain of the human condition.
Lesson 9: plot as a methodology of social justice
Our plots are based on our experiences.
Lesson 10: use a 21st century digital presentation
We blog our themes.
Lesson 11: reflect issues with the human condition
Poverty is a theme that reflects history and suffering.
Lesson 12: write about real experiences
You can write your own truths.
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