Good Orderly Direction is a daily reflection book for the entire year. This book is full of positive daily affirmations and directions for reducing stress and creating inner peace. It is a powerful guide to the reader. It offers practical tools for attaining a more compassionate, responsible and fulfilling life and inspires the reader to take charge of his/her problems, relationships, sadness, and life's painful tests and situations. The themes run from the universal to the personal: the power to see oneself and to change, the rewards of embracing a higher good, and the directions to develop and enhance nurturing relationships. There is a space for the reader to reflect on each reading for the day and write down thoughts and ideas. Good Orderly Direction offers the reader the hope for change through acceptance, spiritual practices, and moving through inertia and negativity by making right choices. It opens spiritual doors to seeing beyond appearances; Ayin Adams opens the door to Grace. Good Orderly Direction reflects the author's enthusiasm and contagious energy; Adams words communicate new ways of understanding and to help the reader navigate life's ever changing waters and sometimes turbulent situations. Good Orderly Direction inspires wholeness and fulfillment and is about living in the consciousness of now, knowing, loving and healing the Divine self, both physically and spiritually. This book is about the necessity of stillness, listening, observing, and patience, in order to find personal inner freedom and a healthy balance between being and doing. This book opens the path to a new level of consciousness, an inner glow of well-being, and a more harmonious life.

The book you hold in your hands draws inspiration from the magic of turtles-magnificent creatures who have a cherished place in the imaginations of peoples throughout the world. Meet Sugar Daisy, her family and friends and travel with her as she journeys from one powerful adventure to the next from Alabama to the East Coast, France, West Africa. and Hawaii. Ethnicity, culture, and travel reveal the similarities in people and the diversity in places that educate the readers both young and old. Experience the life lessons of Sugar Daisy and Timmy Turtle. For some cultures, the turtle's back symbolizes heaven, its body the earth, and its belly the underworld; for others, the shell represents the dome of heaven and heavenly virtue; still others see in turtle magic the possibility of uniting heaven and earth, with the turtle a symbol of creation. Turtles are omnivores and among the oldest land animals. Sea turtles have existed longer than any other vertebrate animal. They were here with the dinosaurs, surviving the Ice Age. Flourishing in the oceans and on all five continents, turtles have the ability to adapt and flourish] to any environment. Although many traditional tales in Far Eastern and North American Indian cultures emphasize the figure of the land-dwelling tortoise, and there are many names for these delightful reptiles, for simplicity, in my story, Timmy Turtle Teaches, I use the word turtle. There are three major types of what people generally call turtles: those living on earth are called tortoises; those living in the water are called turtles; and those living both in water and on land they are called terrapins. Because of the hard-shell shelters that they carry with them, turtles can withdraw and hide when in the midst of turmoil. Thus, they teach lessons of self-protection and self-containment, and the importance of focusing inward. They can give of themselves, yet can withdraw when necessary. The shell is like a psychic shield, a suit of armor, to protect against the negative thoughts and actions of others. By going within, turtles have the power to help people stay grounded, relaxing and allowing one's] ideas to germinate in the silence of the inner self. Turtles remind people to slow down, heighten their sensitivities and sensibilities, see the interconnectedness of all things, and ponder the wonder of it all. Because turtles cannot separate themselves from their shell, a lesson of the turtle symbol is that humans should not separate themselves from what they do and how they act toward Mother Earth.

Kwanzaa is a celebratory period of seven days from December 26 - January 1 that acknowledges spirit, the ancestors, and seven principles for living more harmoniously in a ritual that is popular with many African Americans. It celebrates certain values to be embraced by the community, the family, and the individual to help create better, more productive, and fulfilled lives. Although the African American community is small in the Hawaiian Islands, resident groups of African Americans and their friends and families gather together in a tradition to celebrate the 7 principles of Kwanzaa at the end of each year. The principles are: umoja, ujima, ujamaa, kujuchagulia, nia, kuumba, and imani. Dr. Ayin Adams has put together this delightfully creative and informative book to share the philosophical values, cultural poetry, recipes, and photographs of the unique beauty of the Hawaiian Islands and enhance the meaning, scope, depth, and intimate ritual of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa in Hawaii is a wonderful book for children and adults, for people of all races and cultures, genders and abilities, to encourage the conscious instillation of values to live by in order to strengthen one's personal and collective lives. A unique presentation The everlasting dream of the mother land of the ancestors, for most exist in virtual reality, as a scent, a rhythm, a beat, a song, a dance, and as a fascination. Without ever having put foot on Africa's soil Adams' voice rings the call of Mama Africa to love and worship her as her children living in the global Diaspora. Adams' poetry resonates all of this, in beautiful phrases and metaphors. Most of all, Adams captures the heritage - that special gift - expressed in simple words 'Hawaii, you see/ is Africa to me'. Adams articulates that there is acceptance wherever you live and that you carry your heritage and identity deep within you, always, as a treasure to cherish, and with pride and dignity

Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography) is a compelling historical biography about Frank Marshall Davis (1907-1987), journalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissance man of the Black Chicago Renaissance. He wrote expansively about social relations of his times and the failures of democracy, recorded his observations on race relations, African American culture and community, and critiqued economic disparities in the USA and imperialism in Hawaii. Kathryn Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall Davis and to explore the myths and legacy that Davis left to the world, applicable to the 21st century. Waddell Takara met, visited, befriended, and interviewed Davis in Hawaii during the last 15 years of his life. She felt a special affinity for and understanding of Davis due to certain shared situations: the Jim Crow South, poetry and politics, activism, and interracial marriage and life as an African American in Hawaii. Between the pages of this critical biography, Waddell Takara reveals Davis's efforts to establish connective marginalities between the black and white worlds, both conventional and nonconventional, in the first half of the 20th century. His personal aim to acquire power, status, and dignity like any white citizen and the methods he utilized were often unusual, unconventional, and challenging: journalism, editorials, poetry, music, American and African history, politics, and activism. Davis's aesthetic perceptions, sociopolitical analysis, and rigorous interpretive thought are valuable today in understanding (current issues). He documented the racial climate, the black psyche, identity issues, migrations of blacks to urban areas, struggles with poverty, lack of education and training, tattered dreams, sexual politics, and conflicts based on stereotypes alternately using lyricism and satire to educate, empower and push for social reform. His writings, especially his editorials, show how the black intellectual's voice has been forged in response to political and cultural movements as a confrontational force connecting the black and white worlds. Davis documents the geopolitics of race and class from Kansas to Hawaii. The Fire and the Phoenix highlights Davis's journey from where he was born, raised, and educated in Kansas to his professional work as a journalist and poet in Chicago, Gary, Atlanta, and finally the territory of Hawaii in 1948. Throughout his long life, Davis wrote about social, political and economic events and served as a witness and critic of racism, economic disparities, imperialism, and colonialism long before those concepts were part of the social science jargon and studies. Davis remained in Hawaii until he died in 1987.