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A Rainbow Of Love is one of several volumes containing a wonderful selection of poetic treasures, selected from more than 1000 poems written by Washingtonian native, Josephine B Comberiate. Born in 1917, she played piano and acted as emcee for a local dance band, Charlie Guion and His Washingtonians, in the 1930's. She learned the popular hits of the day and wrote music for the group, which performed at the Mayflower and other hotels and at high-society parties. Despite encouragement from Dinah Shore and Liberace, none of the 425 songs she published, mostly ballads and inspirational music, ever became a hit. All the colors of the rainbow are painted into this 86-page volume of her poetry that "sings" of creation, nature, love, liberty, family, babies, animals, friends, and music.

It is a shame this one is out of print at this time. It is well worth the time spent trying to find a copy. The subject here, is exotic birds from around the world and the photographs are wonderful. The text is very well executed and goes along with the color plates quite well. There is an excellent glossery included and the book is quite readable. Recomment this one highly.

Growing up in and around ashrams, trying to quiet the mind, getting in and out of rhythms of shorter to longer daily meditation sittings, encountering the internal and external pressures and influences around these patterns, gaining and losing what I think Kent calls "spiritual vanity" are all common issues for spiritual aspirants. Kent's surprisingly personal, humerous, honest accounts of all these things, which he has experienced in spades, just busted a fascade for me in such a delightful way. My Guru used to say something like "truth is high, but true living is higher still." Kent's account pretty well differentiates the two for me and makes the latter a simpler, less daunting possibility; one that carries with it a feeling of relief, lightness and joy.

1. Overture
2. Rainbow Palace
3. Broadway Birthday Party
4. Happy Talk
5. Shenanigans
6. Top Hat, Bow Tie And Tails
7. I'd Do Anything
8. Daisey Bell On Broadway
9. DO RE MI
10. Heart
11. Broadway Banana
12. Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
13. Big Feet
14. I Whistle A Happy Tune
15. Captain Hook's Waltz
16. Quite A Combination
17. Rainbow Chorus Line
18. Bravo
19. All The World's A Stage

Running time: 45 min, 23 sec.

We love using Rainbow Piano Technique. More importantly, our daughter, 3, loves it. She had an immediate response, picking up a full measure of music within minutes. She started playing songs in it, left hand and right hand, within three weeks. The color tabs let her read the music without stress. The music is familiar children's songs, and Annie Wang seems to have done a good job in making them sound fresh. We are truly delighted with the book. We wanted to give our daughter the gift of music, and this turns out to be an excellent start to that dream.

Be there, out in the middle of the Pacific with the crew aboard Anuenue as she sails for Honolulu Hawai`i in the 1969 TransPacific Yacht Race... one of the worlds longest running, long distance open-ocean yacht races... Follow along the course - some 2200 nm from Long Beach Calif to the finish line at Diamond Head Light, with Stu Milligan and his view of events in this exciting race as they unfolded in the summer of '69... you can also follow Transpac '97 on the web at: http://holoholo.org/wycnews/transpac/ - here you'll find links to all available online resources on the race, including excerpts from this wonderful first-person account of open-ocean yacht racing at it's finest.... be there... aloha... danno

I've loved this book since I was a child and now my kids love it too. Granted, you have to have a liking for Virginia Parson's distinctive style of child - her children have a rather elvish wide-eyed look, but if you do, you might like this book. I enjoy the almost vintage 60's folk clothing the dimuitive fairy children dancing throughout the book are wearing, as well as the fine realistic illustrations of birds and other animals which accompany the text. The arrangement of the book is clever - color borders on each page take the child through the rainbow via well-known and obscure folk rhymes. For instance, "red" has the rhyme "Little Robin Redbreast / came to visit me / This is what he whistled: / "Thank you for my tea!" " Gentle literary images, with no earthiness and hidden cruelty found in more traditional rhymes - for example, the rather brutal "Rock a bye baby" is changed nicely to "Rock a bye baby / thy cradle is green." A soothing walk through the rainbow climaxing with two rainbow rhymes and a two-page spread of her children sliding over a rainbow. A great book for your very young children. Such a shame it's out of print.

There is one book above all I remember reading to my now 26 year old daughter, and of all the books she had, I think she loved this one best.