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Coming Soon. Available in ,2012
Hot off the Press!
"Breathe into the Center
with the Didgeridoo Healing Experience"
Learn to create
harmonious sound waves and heal yourself and others as you experience a
meaning of life.
Table of Contents
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Preface
Part 1
1.
The Beginnings, the Bobaradoo, the Buddha 2.
Imprints of the Origins of Sound 3.
Searching for Harmony within the Web of Waves 4.
Mindful Awareness of Your Body 5.
Focusing on your Breath’s Energy 6.
Your Voice’s Connections with Intentions 7.
Feel the Rhythm 8.
Listening with your most beneficial sensor, The Ear 9.
Concentrate with your Mind 10.
The Sounds and Music of the Healing Energy 11.
The Science and Metaphysics of the Healing Waves 12.
Listening to the Nothingness 13.
Saving the Diversity within the Oneness 14. Making Waves around the world with Players and Listeners
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1.
The Characteristic of the Didgerioo 2.
The Meanings of Color and Symbols
Part 3
1.
Breathing is the Bridge 2.
Your Body is the Instrument 3.
Playing the Didgeridoo 4.
Sing with your voice, blow a drone with your lips 5.
Listen to your Music 6.
Didgeridoo Exercises 7.
Tones, Drones, Harmonics and Beats 8.
Concentrating of the Center Mantra 9.
Harmonizing the Body with the Didgeridoo 10. Listening to the Waves
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Current Books Available!
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"Who's Guiding My Kite"
Floating in the sky Mr. Kite waits for Miss Wind as he anticipates living a romantic, fun-loving adventure. Then as she arrives, she takes him for a ride through sky over the desert canyons of below. Mr. Kite and Miss Wind play and express their continually exchanging their emotions during their brief encounter. While interacting, moment by moment, they find true happiness for a short time even though they know that their future together will end soon.
"If I could fly, so very high Bouncing on the breath of earth, I'd fly so high just to fly And look down from
the highest perch." copyright 1997 iwb
"Doggone Desert"
A lost dog communicates with the desert flora and fauna to find his way home's
"The faint sounds from afar.
to go outside the door
to eat until I'm stuffed
to poo on a flower
to sleep on a soft bed
to rest on the sofa
to curl in a cold corner
to watch for intruders
to catch the children
or play with my toy
to bite at your hand
to sit up or stand
to feel an affectionate pet
to find a rat to chase a cat
to run so fast to leap for a treat
© Robert Leesley 1998 |
"The '66 Cinderella Team"
A short story of how a hopeless, small, slow losing high school basketball team in 1966 became winners overnight and transformed the spirit of not only the team but also lifted the spirit of the students and teachers and surrounding communities within Illinois as the feelings of hope, joy and pride still live on in memories of that two week period.
" There were embarrassing long bus rides. There were few people at the games. There were the coaches bad looks and constant criticism. There were parents pressuring coaches for a need to a least win something.""Our record at the end of the regular season was 3 wins and 17 losses. The season was just about to end as the state tournament began. Yet there was a spark among the gloom and it was Coach Zebos, always funny, taking it all with a grain of salt. Assistant Coach Steve Zebos was very important influence on our team, calming us down and encouraging us after losses and butt chewing. He was always the comic relief"
When someone beat you badly in
practice,
"He peed on your leg"
"Listen to me, MacGregor and I will make you very average"
"There was a time when he had us all play a whole
practice game with are shoes tied together."
"Those Cinderella game endings were unbelievable. I also kept a scorebook and I believe that after one game, the scorekeeper came to me to double check what he had for his stats. I also remember the roar being deafening. Great memories. I am amazed that you remembered I went to all the basketball games. I always wondered if anyone noticed, although I went because I loved the sport" Joann Gambriella Meyerhoff 2009
The last game against Maine South was something akin to Social Caste warfare. Just two years earlier, Maine East’s student body was split with the inception of Maine South, the progeny of Park Ridge commodity brokers and pediatricians taking residency in their new digs a few miles south of their former high school while the tool-and-dye maker’s and route salesman’s kids from Niles, Morton Grove, and parts of Glenview and unincorporated Des Plaines stay put in good-old Maine East. The Maine South kids copped a ‘tude; the ’66 Maine East basketball team banged their heads on the concrete. Woody Guthrie would have been proud." George Loechl 2009
Play by play audio recordings and a Poster are included with this illustrated inspirational book.
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"Dancing with Cranes"
An average crane named 'Garoo' gets blown away from his flock ten thousand years ago. On his fall migration, he learns to dance after dreaming of the motions after a nearly fatal fall. Then he showed others what he had learned Then they showed others. Finally after generations of colts, a human watched. Was man first taught to dance by a crane? We find out in this one of a kind adventure with cranes, prehistoric man and the environment unfolds.
"It was an early winter, being that it was at the beginning of the younger dryas. It was the beginning of the short ice age. Everyone moved South." copyright 2009 iwb
"Alive in the Garden"
While, sitting in a Memorial Garden all of our senses are alerted as we experience the essence of the garden. Among all the spirits of the dead we see the living an discover the interdependent circle of life.
"Can you stare
at a baby cotton tail.
nibbling
a fallen elm leaf.
Or connect your eyes
to the glare of an owl.
a top
the
tallest pine tree.
or catch a glimpse
of the roadrunner.
crossing
your trail as saying goodbye.
then wink
at a honey bee.
buzzing
too close to your eyes.
Can you rub a grain of granite lying alone , helplessly lost Or immerse your hands stirring stagnant water with slimy moss." copyright 2000 iwb |
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Saying & Poetry"
A contemplation of writing with photography from Ironwoodbob and others' worthy writings
"Tit for Tat"
"By and by Near or far It’s a piece of cake From pan to plate.
From cheek to cheek And back to back At face to face better face the facts
From right to left and back and forth An eye to eye
Search and rescue A boat in toe Ship to shore From dawn to dusk
Arm to arm and shoulder to shoulder Older and older and colder and colder.
Down and out. Time and again Hand in hand It’s the End."
copyright Robert Leesley 2006
"Car Crash" When that driver races by, cutting me off,
just missing my thigh. When the drunk dives through the red lights, almost taking my life. When a wide load wobbles,
taking twice the room, leaving me half a lane.
When
an elder passes,
from right to left crossing my path two times.
And
then there is someone, who is deep thinking not looking then collides Perhaps some day no one will drive with the risk of death and suffering.
maybe all will just float along by
And think and drink a little less. Or is that just getting Old?
copyright Robert Leesley 2007
Sayings
"In bed, on my side, copyright iwb 1999
Why organize when you're really not doing anything, anyway" iwb 2005
The only way to freedom is living with less. iwb 1996
"If
I could fly, so very high copyright iwb 2001
I feel the spirit
when I open up, "Memories are given, so you see flowers in December." iwb 1998
"The small rock could produce great change with strong velocity while the large rock just sits and erodes."
iwb 2005 Memories are always eroding history was never as remembered
Life is a never ending spiraling on a path until death as the action affecting the future spirals forever.
Good turns to Bad and Bad turns to Good Evil is primeval. We are the gods to the dust's universe at that moment of perspective. Every time we walk on rocks, dust stirs under our feet.
Life is like a rubber band to stretch,
All likes follow like lemmings
so don’t be fooled. Life is like a crossword puzzle thought to thought followed by action to action
Many Action Happen Abruptly Everything is energy, always moving.
A limited edition of each Book is available with 22 archival prints sandwiched between vellum with text. Each book is Coptic bound with a metal plate embedded on the leather cover Each copy is signed and dated. |
