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The First Word
In lieu of an
editorial
Our Front
Cover - Introducing a personal note.
We have chosen, as an illustration for
our front cover, a picture of the Editor's daughter Emily and
grand-daughter Katie, for several appropriate reasons.
First, of course, it does illustrate very
effectively and - we think - delightfully, the concept of
maternal attachment, and is thus appropriate to the subject
of our Main Theme.
Secondly, Katie was four years old on
September 8, 2014. An auspicious date. It was
during that series of dreadful earthquakes that shook
Christchurch, New Zealand in 2000, that Katie arrived,,
being one of the (if not the first) babies born at
that time. She was delivered prematurely as a consequence of an
aftershock. We called it a "birthquake".
Thirdly, and somewhat less importantly,
the date was also my own birthday, albeit some 81 years
earlier.
And finally it is to invite your good
wishes, your hopes, and - if your belief system supports the
efficacy of prayers - these too, please, for my
daughter Emily's full recovery with the current course of
chemotherapy she is undergoing for her non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma.
This Issue
We are really pleased by the presence of
several new contributors to this issue and the return, after
a considerable absence, of two old friends. It is also
a pleasant happenstance that our Main Theme should coincide
with both two book reviews that were available entirely by
chance, as well as a poem on the same subject by a poet new
to our columns.
Another
Personal Insertion
I have recently published a book of verse
entitled Uncultured Pearls. Normally I would
not use this column for the purposes of advertising, for
myself or anyone else. However, as the result of a
muddle with earlier publications, the ISBN number that was
allocated to the book is a duplication of another title.
Consequently the book is not being marketed by Amazon UK
until a second printing can be arranged with an amended ISBN
barcode.
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In
the meantime the book remains available via
Amazon.com, having had a separate publication in the
United States with the ISBN 978150049723. In
the UK, I am still happy to provide copies at £4.00 each inclusive of
postage until such time
as my stocks are disposed of, and I can then
reproduce the bar code appropriately for Amazon.co.uk purposes. Just send your name and
address to Nurturing Potential's email or land mail contact address,
and a copy will wing its way to you accompanied by
an invoice. |
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Joe Sinclair
Managing Editor
Have a good
AUTUMN
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