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The tragedy of September 11, 2001 left us each trying to fill a uniquely unfamiliar void in our spirit with something that will make us whole again. Somehow we need to feel the experience in a way that following the news coverage just doesn't accomplish. Brian W. Vaszily found a way, and shares it with us in this brilliant anthology of thoughts, feelings, desires and dreams that were cut short on that terrible Tuesday. Through imagined characters he does what no news story or survivor's account can - he brings us into the lives of the departed - people so much like our friends, our families, and ourselves - as their final minutes play out. This uplifting work gently guides the reader beyond the tragedy of stone and steel to reaffirm what is truly important about being alive.
Beyond Stone and Steel: A Memorial to the September 11, 2001 Victims Accessories
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Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
The Miracle Seven: 7 Amazing Exercises That Slim, Sculpt, and Build the Body in 20 Minutes a Day
Change Your Thoughts Meditation CD: Do the Tao Now!
One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
Beyond Stone and Steel: A Memorial to the September 11, 2001 Victims Reviews
But that fortuitous allegation reminded me that the unthinkable event had happened to the "World" Trade Center - not the "New York" Trade Center. I was watching a local Spanish station at the time because, of course, the antenna for regular major news media broadcasting was destroyed. Each time I experience an expanded and enhanced spiritual and psychic understanding of an event I thought I'd come to terms with long ago. We live in a spiritual world and there is still much that we really don't understand but we do get glimpses of it along the way. Probably because he doesn't journalistically report exactly what happened; probably because he presents the psychic reality of his personal experience: that experience enlarges our own. I've had this book a long time. I've read it many times.
The traders were Dutchmen. I, too, have a semi-tangible psychic reality about the entire 400-year time line. I remembered that New York Harbor was a major trading center, a stock exchange in physical goods dating back to the 1600s and housed in the Custom House which is still there. I remember being physically discomfited by others, elsewhere in the country/world, speaking as though they had some inherent legitimate authority to tell me what was happening less than 3 miles away (by flying crow). At the time I worked in an international on-line network.
It reminds us that of the thousands who died, every one of them was a living, breathing person, just like us. This is a small masterpiece and deserving of your attention. It is fiction.no real names are used. This slim volume greatly humanizes the lives, hopes, fear and dreams of those about to die.
This book was like none other I have ever read. It has truly changed the way I see my life. the author seemed to digest this tradegy and somehow turned it into something beautiful. It has reminded me of all that I have, how easily it could be gone and to cherish every moment we are here. I enjoyed this book very much and highly recommend it to everyone.
That event might be death. Right from the first chapter, Vaszily makes no secret of the result; what he discovered on his path down misfortune's lane is that he is "a lucky man" in spite of the hardships he has suffered. That event might be bankruptcy. This slim volume may be difficult to take, depending on the reader's status with recovery from the events of 9/11. "Beyond Stone and Steel" by Brian W.
That event might be rejection. Or the event might be national loss. Regardless of one's recovery status, though, it may be just what the doctor ordered. That event might be the loss of a job. Vaszily recounts a personal passage from one mental state to another far better one, describes the slow, step-by-step trudge often required by events much larger than ourselves.
For this author, all of these experiences played a part in his transformation. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"
"Beyond Stone and Steel" by Brian W. Right from the first chapter, Vaszily makes no secret of the result; what he discovered on his path down misfortune's lane is that he is "a lucky man" in spite of the hardships he has suffered. For this author, all of these experiences played a part in his transformation. That event might be death. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place" Regardless of one's recovery status, though, it may be just what the doctor ordered. Vaszily recounts a personal passage from one mental state to another far better one, describes the slow, step-by-step trudge often required by events much larger than ourselves.
That event might be rejection. That event might be bankruptcy. This slim volume may be difficult to take, depending on the reader's status with recovery from the events of 9/11. Or the event might be national loss. That event might be the loss of a job.
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