The word "emerge" is hidden within "emergency."For good reason. As people of hope, we lay that hidden word bare and focus our energies upon it. We insist that momentous potential lies as a seed within all periods of turmoil and upheaval. We search out that seed, enrich the soil, and provide what it needs to grow. Our ability to do this is a hallmark of staying power. Interested in this book? Get the original Staying Power: Writings from a Pandemic Year!  Praise for Staying Power 2: Writings from a Year of Emergence "Reading Staying Power is like sitting down with a trusted friend for a thoughtful, life-giving, and much longed for conversation. The collection beautifully explores what gets us up in the morning and keeps us awake at night, the shadows present in our current world, and a luminous light always shining at the center of things. I know I'll return to it for wisdom and insight, courage and comfort, good questions and a sustainable hope in hard times."-Carrie Newcomer, Award-winning Songwriter/Musician, Author, The Beautiful Not Yet "If you're weary of books telling you how to live your life, with how to be your best self, with how to thrive in the midst of this or that crisis when all you want is a reason to enter another day and make it back to bed, it's with a delighted sigh and a grateful heart that you'll open Staying Power. After saying yes to a cup of green tea, Phyllis sits by you, turns, looks out your window. Peace appears. She offers no solutions, no shoulds, no answers to it all. With quiet understanding she ever so gently redirects your attention, assures you that your days-even hard days-are rich with the emergence of ineffable luminosity."-Jack Ridl, Author, Practicing to Walk Like a Heron "In this wise, hopeful book, Phyllis Cole-Dai helps us emerge from the pandemic chrysalis. Writing from her `true spot, ' as she calls it, she offers short, creative takes on how we might navigate life in the new normal. Every essay, story, and poem tips the `Kindness Meter' toward love and generosity." Annette Langlois Grunseth, Author, Becoming Trans-Parent "In her new volume of musings, Phyllis Cole-Dai says, `This is more than just talk. This is blessing. This is love at work.' I can think of no better way to describe these heartfelt and inspiring reflections. Phyllis has a gift for looking through the prism of life's challenges and seeing the myriad possibilities for hope and healing. She is not a narrator; she is a treasured companion who will remind you that `What love can accomplish is beyond superhuman. It has no limits.' This book is a blessing."-Gloria Heffernan, Author, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List "This is a stunningly beautiful and wise collection. Each brief chapter offers the reader resilience, deep wisdom, and kindness. It's an invaluable and comforting companion to these uncertain times."-Claire B. Willis, Author, Opening to Grief

Staying Power 2: Writings from a Year of Emergence - Staying Power, #2

Rebuild Your Resilience After the Pandemic and Prepare for a New Normal! Life can be tough, [even in the best of times. But life in a pandemic requires a special sort of staying power. Imagine yourself doing what must be done without giving up, despite how difficult your circumstances or how tired you get. Imagine yourself holding fast to your center. More than mere stamina, staying power involves exceptional commitment and trust, even a kind of faith. It's as much about the spirit as the body. We build it by . nurturing gratitude increasing resilience. practicing patience developing empathy and compassion appreciating the beauty of what's true keeping faith with ourselves and others Multi-genre author Phyllis Cole-Dai draws on the power of wit, insight, storytelling, and emotional intelligence to help you build your resilience. Her weekly Staying Power newsletter has supported a throng of readers throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Now she offers this inspiring collection of soulful musings and poetry to companion you through the remaining pandemic and into the uncharted territory of the "new normal." Read to remind yourself how resilient you are. Read to remember that your spirit is bigger than your anxieties and worries, your wounds and losses. Read to remember you're not alone. Get your copy today and boost your staying power!

Staying Power: Writings from a Pandemic Year

Who would you be without a home?In 1999 Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the fifteenth-largest city in the United States. They went to the streets with a single intention: to be as present as possible to everyone they met, offering them sustained and nonjudgmental attention. Such attention is the heart of compassion. This book chronicles their streets experiences. It will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. It will force you to confront what might happen to you, and who you might become, if suddenly you had no home. The meditative narrative is accompanied by pinhole photographs shot by James using cameras he constructed from trash. This is the third edition of the book, lightly edited. Though recounting events that occurred in 1999, The Emptiness of Our Hands remains as relevant today as ever. An "eye-opening" and "life-changing" read!Read this book on its own or in the company of Practicing Presence: Insights from the Streets, which Phyllis wrote on the tenth anniversary of her time on the streets. Take your reading slow, perhaps one chapter per day, so you can absorb and reflect. If you happen to be Christian, you might consider using this book and Practicing Presence as companion resources during Lent and Holy Week, which served as a backdrop for Phyllis and James's experience. But you don't need to be a Christian to take this stumbling journey into practicing mindfulness on the streets. Just allow these forty-seven days to be for you what they were for Phyllis and James: a deep embrace of core values that human beings around the world have held in common for millennia.[308 pp., including front and back matter]

The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

Perhaps every woman will lie for the man she lies with. August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies by the warrior Caske. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become. This is the gripping story of two people, caught between worlds, who are willing to do almost anything to defend those they care about-including each other. But the drama is bigger than themselves. Tragic forces have been set in motion..[334 pp., including front and back matter]

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