Focusing on the profound themes of yearning, service, and affliction, this meditative reading of Psalm 119 invites personal prayer and reflection. Michael Casey offers a verse-by-verse exploration, encouraging readers to engage deeply with each line, reminiscent of traditional litanies in Catholic devotion. The work highlights the psalm's celebration of Israel's Law and God's self-revelation, making it relevant to everyday experiences and universal questions, while promoting a contemplative approach to scripture.
Through the Digital Transformation Process, educators are guided step-by-step to seamlessly integrate digital tools into the curriculum, revolutionizing teaching methods and empowering students with 21st-century skills. Beyond merely enhancing learning outcomes, the digital transformation advocated by Vidal serves as a dynamic vehicle for achieving profound improvements in both student education and the overall efficiency of the school district.
In "Millrat," poet Michael Casey accounts for the working days and interior lives of fellow laborers in a textile factory on the Merrimack River in Lowell, Massachusetts. As he does in his remarkable collection of poems "Obscenities" (Yale Younger Poet Award, 1972) that brought the Vietnam War home to readers, Casey makes the shop floor come alive in the voices of co-workers and vivid scenes behind the brick wall of the mill. The episodes are frighteningly dangerous, wildly funny, and distinctly mundane as employees perform tasks and navigate the occupational power structure. This special 25th anniversary edition includes reprints of book reviews dating to the first printing in 1996 and new commentary by writers who know him, in particular the editor/publisher of "Millrat" in the original. The book has been called "authentic," "a genuine work of art," and "classic." Casey draws on summer job experiences when he was in college in the 1960s, a period when the last of the Lowell mills were hanging on.
After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth observations about the joys and challenges of living in community with an appreciation of the deeper meanings of cenobitic life, taking into account the changes in both theory and practice that have occurred in his lifetime. He invites his readers, especially monks and nuns, to reflect on their own experiences of community as a means of seeing a path forward into the future.Many of the key components of monastic community have kept the same names for more than a millennium. In an age of paradigm shift, Michael Casey invites readers to examine these essential practices of community life and to ask how they might be envisioned in a way that speaks to our contemporaries.
A compilation of short stories on mental illness and ways to handle them
180 pages
7 hours of reading
Exploring the often-overlooked realm of mental health, this book addresses the importance of seeking help for psychological issues just as one would for physical ailments. It highlights the stigma surrounding mental health treatment and emphasizes the necessity of understanding and addressing mental struggles. Through relatable scenarios and insights, it encourages readers to recognize the value of professional support for emotional and psychological well-being.
Daily reflections draw from the homilies of Cistercian monk Michael Casey, crafted over his fifty years of priesthood. Utilizing a collection of index cards, Casey has transformed these homilies into concise reflections for each day of the year. The topics are diverse, with each reflection offering a unique perspective, often infused with Casey's whimsical and humorous style, making for an engaging and thoughtful daily reading experience.
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In 1972, Michael Casey won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for Obscenities, a collection of poems drawn from his military experience during the Vietnam War. In his forward to the book, judge Stanley Kunitz called the work a kind of anti-poetry that befits a kind of war empty of any kind of glory and the first significant book of poems written by an American to spring from the war in Vietnam. Its raw depictions of war s mundanity and obscenity resonated with a broad audience, andObscenities went into a mass market paperback edition, and was stocked in drugstores as well as bookstores. In the decades since, Casey s poetry has continued to document the places of his work and life. Then and now, his poems foreground the voices around him over that of a single author; they are the words of young American conscripts and their Vietnamese counterparts, coworkers and bosses, neighbors and strangers. His compressed sketches and unadorned monologues have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. There It Is: New and Selected Poems presents, for the first time, a full tour through Casey s work, from his 1972 debut to 2011 s Check Points, together with new and uncollected work from the late 60s on. Here are all the locations of Casey s life and work Lowell to Landing Zone, dye house to desk and an ensemble cast with a lot to say. -- Provided by publisher
