The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Author: John Edward Huth
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674072820

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Author: John Edward Huth
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674074815

Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What else is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative—part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history—brings our own world into sharper view.

Finding Our Way Home

Finding Our Way Home
Author: Charlene Baumbich
Publisher: Waterbrook Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012
Genre: Accidents
ISBN: 0307444732

After ballet dancer Sasha Davis suffers a severe injury and returns home to Minnesota to recover and deal with her mother's death, she forms an unexpected bond with her live-in aide, Evelyn, who helps Sasha face life with a renewed purpose.

Finding Our Way Home

Finding Our Way Home
Author: Gerald G. Jampolsky
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 145875409X

In a deeply heartfelt way, Jerry Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione share stories of their spiritual journey, detours they've taken, and people who have impacted them along their life trail. Using the Hawaiian tradition of ''talking story,'' Jerry and Diane demonstrate the daily application of spiritual principles and practical spirituality. Individually and together, they weave their journey for us as it continues to evolve from the influences around them. They inspire us to embrace and share our own stories of peaks and valleys that make up our journeys. The authors' honest and vulnerable style of communicating continues to reveal their life purposes in the choices they make and the lessons they've learned. ''Each day still provides challenges and circumstances that call to those parts of us that want to judge others or ourselves,'' they write. ''What is different now is that we more quickly recognize when we're lost and the choice we have to return to the path of unconditional love. Once we remember that our purpose is service and helping others, as well as letting go of our judgments and grievances by practicing forgiveness, the path is easier, the direction clearer, and the destination of peace achievable. ''

Finding Our Way

Finding Our Way
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605098795

The acclaimed author “richly articulates how the insights of modern science . . . can usher in a new era of human and planetary health” (Systems Thinker). For years, Margaret Wheatley has written eloquently about humanizing our organizations and helping people to work together more effectively and compassionately. She has shown how breakthroughs in chaos theory and quantum physics can enable organizations to function more like responsive, self-organizing living systems, rather than cold mechanisms of control. And she has gradually expanded these ideas into the wider arena of human society. In short, Margaret Wheatley is one of the most innovative and influential organizational thinkers of our time, and Finding Our Way brings together her shorter writings for the first time, touching on all the topics she has addressed throughout her career, showing how she has applied the ideas in her books in many different situations. “However,” she writes, “this is not a collection of articles. I updated, revised, or substantially added to the original content of each one. In this way, everything written here represents my current views on the subjects I write about.” Provocative, challenging, at times poetic, and often deeply moving, Finding Our Way sums up Wheatley’s thinking on a diverse scope of topics from leadership and management to education and raising children in turbulent times; from societal commentary to specific organizational techniques and more. “Wheatley provocatively lays out how managers must operate to be effective in a system that is ‘alive’ . . . Finding Our Way challenges us to see the enterprises we lead in new light.” —Leader’s Beacon

Finding Kansas

Finding Kansas
Author: Aaron Likens
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0399537333

All I want is someone to care, to know, to understand. And maybe, for a brief moment, I will be free... Finding Kansas is a memoir like no other, written by an unlikely author who at first never dreamed he would find even one reader. When he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age 20, Aaron Likens began to collect his thoughts and experiences on paper-the highs, the lows, the challenges, and the unexpected joys. What he found was hope -- not only for himself, but also for others with Asperger's. Now a sought-after speaker and blogger, he is passionate about sharing his insights into this often misunderstood condition. Aaron has another passion, too: the world of auto racing. A successful flag man at racing events across the country, Aaron calls racing his Kansas-a place where he feels safe, confident, and normal. For others on the autism spectrum, Kansas might be trains, history, or the weather. It is here where, like Aaron, they find freedom, and the possibility for growth and change Finding Kansas brings us into Aaron's world and, in the process, offers a richly observed, deeply thoughtful, and sometimes painful picture of what it's like to live on the autism spectrum.

Finding Your Way

Finding Your Way
Author: Marianne Johansen
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-04-07
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982201614

The only place to start is within. Do you suspect there is a connection between your thoughts and feelings and the things that happen in your life? Do you often feel blocked yet cannot put your finger on why? Have you ever pondered what life is all about? What your life is all about? Life is full of mysteries and complexities. It can sometimes seem like we are in a maze, trying to find our way out. Finding Your Way casts a light on the maze of life and can help you feel at peace with where you are right now, find out where you are headed, and how you can change direction. Finding Your Way focuses on self-awareness and can help you notice your thoughts and feelings in a variety of situations to break negative cycles. It reassures you that you are not alone. It peels away the norm as it looks behind the standard perceptions of life and our existence here, offering forward-thinking and thought-provoking ideas and views. It is a practical yet philosophical and earthly yet spiritual guide to help you navigate through life and promote understanding and compassion toward yourself, others and our environment. It includes topics like children and education, our environment, personal development, bereavement and grief, spiritual concepts, and many more. Finding Your Way is intended to help you find your own way by raising your awareness of your existence, the existence of others, and of your place in nature, on our planet, and in our universe. Master your own transformation.

Finding Our Way Again

Finding Our Way Again
Author: Brian D. McLaren
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2008-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418572373

Shines a practical light on the spiritual disciplines that have been in use since the time of Abraham. In a sense, every day of our lives is labor. It is questionable if you can ever be exactly the same person waking up on two consecutive days. How are spiritual sojourners to cope with the constant change? Many are beginning to explore the ancient Christian spiritual practices that have been in use for centuries, everything from fixed-hour prayer to fasting to sincere observance of the Sabbath. What is causing this hunger for deeper spirituality? Brian McLaren guides us on this quest for an explanation of these spiritual practices, many of which go all the way back to Abraham and the establishment of Israel. In the midst of contemporary Christianity, we discover the beauty of these ancient disciplines and the transformation through Christ that each can provide. Why have certain spiritual disciplines been in use for centuries and why is it important? It is questionable if one can ever be exactly the same person waking up on two consecutive days. How are spiritual sojourners to cope with the constant change? Many are beginning to explore the ancient Christian spiritual practices, such as fixed-hour prayer, fasting and sincere observance of the Sabbath. What is causing this hunger for deeper spirituality? Brian McLaren guides us on this quest for an explanation of these spiritual practices, many of which go all the way back to Abraham and the establishment of Israel. In the midst of contemporary Christianity, we discover the beauty of these disciplines and the transformation through Christ that each can provide.

Finding Our Way Forward

Finding Our Way Forward
Author: Melanie Springer Mock
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2023-02-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1513810618

When our children turn 18, we hope to happily launch them into the world to become the adults we’ve been preparing them to be. Their pathway seems clear: most will go to college, find a vocation and then a true love, and settle into a comfortable life while we parents keep in touch through occasional phone calls, family gatherings, and surprise trips home for Christmas. But now more than ever, these expectations fail to acknowledge the significant challenges faced by many young people, from a pandemic to racial unrest to a climate crisis that is setting the world on fire, figuratively and literally. While young people are consistently told they need to discern God’s calling, in Finding Our Way Forward, Melanie Springer Mock draws on her decades as a college professor and mom to four adult children to explore how finding our way means developing a more expansive understanding of calling for ourselves and for the young adults we love, one that moves beyond vocation and capitalistic enterprises to what God really calls us to: Seeking justice. Loving mercy. Walking with humility. Loving others. Loving God. As we do so, our relationships can be transformed as together we find our way forward.

Finding Your Way through Loneliness

Finding Your Way through Loneliness
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493434578

Beloved author Elisabeth Elliot gives hope to the lonely through tender reflections on God's love for us and his plans to bless us.