The Five Element Orchard

When we enter the woods and walk among trees, we enter another world. Trees are powerhouses of energy that can be used to heal the mind, body, and spirit. Learn to change stress to vitality, negative emotions to positive, and worry to wisdom using the energy of these giant forest beings. By connecting to tree energy, we strengthen our own internal life force and form a deeper connection to the natural world. Using the metaphor of the human body as a tree, we can begin to understand how internal energy works in the body. We have much to learn from trees! In this book you'll learn numerous Qigong practices, which include special breathing, stances, movements, and use of your own awareness to harvest the abundant energy from trees.

In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, Ziegelman takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments, down dimly lit stairwells, beyond the front stoops where housewives congregated, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. 97 Orchard lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.

The story of a young teacher and the mute woman with whom he falls in love.