impossible

Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
$14.00
I have paid for and recieved shipping confirmation for this book but have never seen it! Not received the book paid money for no product. Please give me the book or put credit back on my credit card...

Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict
$15.95


A frightening story of a woman with abandonment issues. Her mother committed suicide when Irene was very young.
The very bright but very bereaved young daughter achieved beautifully academically, but grew up stunted emotionally. Her father remarried quickly, leaving his children to their own devices.

As a sixteen year old attending an American university, Irene fell under the spell of a fifty year old professor, who espoused freedom while evading any kind of responsiblity. Her first pregnancy at sixteen ended in abortion, followed one month later by a second pregnancy and abortion. The abortions became a pattern of behavior, a type of self mutilation or cutting. Isabelle did not feel worthy of being a mother.

Self serving?? Yes. Pitiful?? Yes.

One waivers between wanting to shake some sense into this young woman or sitting beside her and drying her tears.

Impossible Dream
$9.98
This album is absolutely divine. Patty Griffin sings like an angel and her song writing skills are exquisite. If you like the music of Emmylou Harris - especially albums like 'The wrecking Ball' and 'Red Dirt Girl' then you'll adore this album of Patty Griffin's.

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
$18.00
"Stanley" by Tim Jeal is a detailed biography of the Anglo-American explorer of Central Africa, Henry Morton Stanley. I have been a little bit obsessed about Africa and Victorian-Era exploration for the last few years, so my reading of Jeal's book did not begin in a place of complete ignorance, although I wouldn't call my knowledge comprehensive or scholarly. What advantage my previous dabblings into the subject matter allowed me was a familiarity with the "myths" about Stanley that Jeal was aiming to debunk. On the plus side, Jeal treats the man Stanley as more than the sum of his public parts. However, the author comes across as a Stanley apologist, spinning the explorer's legacy to argue that Henry Morton Stanley was both the most successful geographer of Africa lore and a generally good guy that was misunderstood by his contemporaries as well as posterity. While it would be difficult to make a case against the former, Stanley has generally been (fairly or not) thought of as insensitive at best and brutal at worst for his harsh treatment of Africans on his expeditions and his role in founding the Congo Free State. In his retelling, Jeal takes Stanley's part at every turn, begging the question of the author's disinterested impartiality.

As Jeal explains in his introduction, the really new information about Stanley to which he had access was personal correspondence between Stanley and a couple of close friends, between Stanley and his wife, and a sheaf of letters to Stanley from a wide range of professional and personal associates. Private correspondence would be the best way to get at the real person since Stanley was prone to exaggeration and downright fiction in the published accounts of his endeavors. One might argue that all that was just to sell books. However, Stanley was a person who would say or do anything for approval, constantly crafting himself as someone that he thought he should be to cover up the truth of who he actually was. Stanley's words are difficult to trust, even when they are describing his own observations or thoughts.

Jeal's biography of Livingstone is known for its revision of the history of that explorer, arguing that the doctor and missionary was not the flawless saint that he had been remembered as. For "Stanley," Jeal is doing just the opposite: reclaiming the positive side of a high criticized and controversial figure. Perhaps I have just been sucked in by the previous propaganda, but he didn't convince me.