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Michael Cogdill
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Believing a grand thing can't be done amounts to worse than failure to do it. It's failure to venture at it. To venture a try. It's believing in failure before giving failure a chance to get its pants on.
Such failure to try is failing at its worst. Buck naked failure. Failure shooting the world a moon, somehow showing its ass and sitting on it the same time.
To sweat and huff and pant and hell-r... read more »
Such failure to try is failing at its worst. Buck naked failure. Failure shooting the world a moon, somehow showing its ass and sitting on it the same time.
To sweat and huff and pant and hell-r... read more »
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She-Rain: A Story of Hope
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...straight from the back cover of She-Rain, an allegorical novel launching in early 2010. Then, see some early reviews below this:
In the early 20th Century, a pair of North Carolina mountain children sow the seed of a love that becomes their only solace in the hard yet beautiful world they know. They grow it from steep ground of poverty, ignorance, and violence. A landscape so brutal it can kill hope long before claiming life.
Bloodshed years later finally sends Frank Locke on the run, deep into wilderness, abandoning his extraordinary love, Mary Lizbeth. When a whitewater river washes this desperate soul into the hands of Sophia, he discovers a luminous woman steeped in mystery, trapped in a tragically brilliant life. Far ahead of her time. Secreted from the world. As she awakens Frank’s mind, they rise to meet a love that binds three people for a lifetime.
This love triangle forms a beauty no one sees coming. From the wilds of Appalachia, crossing nearly a century, it runs deep into a lush American fortune, and lives in letters of adoration and hope of the least expected.
In a rhapsody of Southern voices, mingling hilarity and sorrow, She-Rain speaks of lives soaring beyond heartbreak, fundamentalism, and self-destruction. Through the most graceful longing, two women in love with one man ultimately prove the power of human hearts to answer high callings. They show us all how to heal -- and thrive -- to the very end.
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Eric Greitens, I pray the narrative of your life shadows and inspires mine until my final day. Readers, harvest the wisdom of this book. Feast on it. Eric Greitens transcends the jingoism and railing identity politics that tend to invade our national...more |
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She-Rain is a modern classic about the triumph of the human spirit over the hopelessness of poverty, violence, and prejudice, and it is bound to be a talked about in generations to come.
The author of She-Rain is renowned Journalist Michael Cogdill... " Read more of this review » |
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I just recently did an exercise myself similar to this. I took that fragile little girl and held her close and told her that thing...more " |
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"Thank you, my dear friend!! Your praise is a great gift. Tell everyone you know, and come see us soon at WYFF4!! Wellness and peace,
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“Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to us: Wag your backside to music instead of your tongue to malice.”
― Michael Cogdill
― Michael Cogdill
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“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Claire wrote: "Hi Michael, Thanks for adding me! I, also, look forward to reading your book. Hope you are having a great day ^-^ "Claire, you're a joy!! Welcome. Loved your note in embrace of London and Australia -- both grand parts of the world.
Thank you for spreading the She-Rain word in London! I'm eager to hear your review. Please, request She-Rain from your favorite bookseller in the city. Our distributor reaches London with ease!
Warmest tidings,
m
Hi Michael, Thanks for adding me! I, also, look forward to reading your book. Hope you are having a great day ^-^
Sarah wrote: "I look forward to reading your book."Sarah, thank you. I'm humbled by the precious time a reader spends in She-Rain (launching March 31) and every other endeavor of writing I undertake, including that of television. Deep gratitude!
I'd love your thoughts on the She-Rain blog, which contains some short passages of the novel alongide postings designed to snap into the mind in just a few moments of reading: http://she-rain.blogspot.com
Warmest peace. Best tidings,
m
Thank you for adding me as a friend. =)http://www.cardshark.com/content/view...
Dreamsbane of Tamalor
My book, "The Extraordinary Workplace: Replacing Fear with Trust and Compasion" is now out. I hope you have a chance to read it. Based on your writing (Raise the Haze & She-Rain) I believe it would resonate with you. Hope "She-Rain" is doing great. It is wonderul book.