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A MEDITATION ON IDENTITY, CULTURE, AND HEALING IN CHILDREN
SEPARATED FROM ORIGINAL FAMILY Millions of our world's children are
forced through the curtain of separation from original family.
Among the numerous causes are poverty, abuse, neglect, natural
disaster, epidemic, immigration, incarceration, addiction, war,
genocide, oppression, and child labor. While each experience is its
own, all such separations cleave the child heart and mind into a
common root wound of vacancy and drift. In the face of such
woundedness, our children have the power for healing and growth
waiting within them. Every aspect of their lives is affected by an
often solitary quest for beauty and belonging. We who raise and
serve these displaced young, through our embrace, are a vital
factor in their ultimate healing. Jaiya John has shared time with
thousands of uprooted children through his human relations work.
Reflection Pond offers us his personal meditation, a looking glass
for what these youth have whispered into his spirit. They have
shared their need for reflection ponds: people, places, and
experiences through which their own beauty and purpose are
reflected back to them. Through allegory and parable, poetry and
prose, Jaiya John draws from the natural world around us to unveil
the magical inner life of children and youth. Here is a revelatory
positioning of the human mirror. In its face we glimpse
magnificence.
The many fictional voices of displaced children in Beautiful are
inspired by youth Jaiya John has worked with over a lifetime. This
second edition contains 8 NEW POEMS. Beautiful is much more than a
source of inspiration. Its words reveal the majesty and
vulnerability of all children. Beautiful is an empowerment anthem
for youth, a resource for those who love, care for, and work with
these purposeful souls. Child light shines through these pages,
asserting the demand of our young for their dignity, while
portraying their limitless power to heal, grow, and flourish. A
poetic companion to Jaiya John's Reflection Pond, Beautiful is the
kind of treasure we polish repeatedly, its truth seeping into our
compassion. Struggle and triumph. Solitude and belonging. A journey
of sunflowers toward the sun of selfhood. In these pages we find
Beauty born.
LEGENDARY is Jaiya John's celebration of teachers, social service
professionals, advocates, caregivers, counselors, mentors, and the
like. Those compassionate souls who honorably serve youth devalued
by society due to material poverty, heritage, language, family
separation; or challenges with learning, behavior, mental health,
or physical ability. Here are poetic stories to awaken your spirit,
massage your heart, and remind you of the reasons you do this work.
Your service touches lives, and miracles are born. Your grace
endures forever. Are you experiencing COMPASSION FATIGUE, VICARIOUS
TRAUMA, BURNOUT, DISILLUSIONMENT, DOUBT, LACK OF APPRECIATION AND
SUPPORT, LOST DIRECTION, FEAR, EMPTINESS? You deserve relief.
LEGENDARY is well water drawn from the very soul of your
compassionate endeavor, offered back to you in your own yearning
voice. Come here and drink to your replenishment. Regain your spark
of purpose. Word by word, renew your wholeness, your humanity, and
your vital health. Take a dose daily. Soon, you will be breathing
freely again, like the first time you answered your sacred calling.
July 15, 1968. It is only three months following the assassination
of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nation is burning. Black and
White America are locked in the tense grip of massive change. Into
this inferno steps an unsuspecting young White couple. Neither had
truly known even a single African American person while growing up.
Now, a child will change all of that forever. In this fateful
moment, a Black baby becomes perhaps the first in the history of
New Mexico to be adopted by a White family. Here is a brazenly
honest glimpse into the mind and heart of that child, a true story
for the ages that flows like a soulful river-separated from his
mother at birth, placed into foster care, adopted, and finally
reunited with his biological family in adulthood-an astounding
journey of personal discovery. Jaiya John has opened the floodgates
on his own childhood with this piercing memoir. Black Baby White
Hands, a waterfall of jazz splashing over the rocks of love, pain
and the honoring of family. Magically, this book finds a way to
sing as it cries, and to exude compassion even as it dispels
well-entrenched myths. Destined to become a classic, this stirring
account is sure to find itself well worn, stained by tears, and
brushed by laughter in the lap of parents, adolescents, educators,
students, and professionals. Here comes the rain and the sunshine,
all at once.
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