Sunday, August 30, 2026

WHAT IS A HUMAN-BEING

   Art sculptures with many faces on it.


WHAT IS A HUMAN-BEING

The work investigates the whatness of a human being. Essential features are viewed from interrelated points of neuroscience, philosophy, biophysiology, quantum mechanics, psychology, communication and computation.

One chapter is dedicated to the topology of brain and another one to consciousness. Theories of aging are discussed.

Psychological profile of a human- being is addressed including the phenomenon of the self. An important subject of this article is the body internal communication. The attention is paid to the transcendentals named metasymbols of life.

The term "mindware" is proposed for labelling human operating system responsible for harmony and coherence of human being's behaviour. Reflections on the passing of life are mentioned at the end. This paper reviews many sources and could be assumed as an attempt to mark known, nearly known or sometimes unnameable answers to never-ending question.



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Saturday, August 29, 2026

100,000 Whys for Kids

    book Cover Lots of Interesting images around book title



100,000 Whys for Kids:

A Why Book for Kids 10–14 and Full-Color Visual Encyclopedia with Fun Facts for Young Learners About Science, Space, Animals, ... History, Inventions, and How the World Works


100,000 Whys for Kids is a full-color visual encyclopedia created for curious kids ages 10–14 who are always asking “Why?” From space and dinosaurs to animals, the human body, nature, science, technology, history, and more, each page explores a fascinating question with clear explanations, colorful visuals, fun facts, and easy-to-understand information. Designed to make learning exciting and approachable, this book is a great choice for curious young readers, families, classrooms, homeschool learning, and anyone looking for an educational screen-free gift. Every question is a new opportunity to discover how the world works.





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Thursday, August 27, 2026

Magick Is Not a Myth—It’s the Energy You’re Already Using

   Magickal geometric image with woman in side with a third eye


Magick Is Not a Myth—It’s the Energy You’re Already Using

Magick: From Chaos to Clarity is a powerful invitation to recognize what has always been flowing through you. Magick is not rare, distant, or reserved for ancient stories—it is happening constantly, created by billions of people every day, often without awareness. This book exists to pull that energy out of chaos and into clarity, helping you understand how magick actually works and, more importantly, how you are already using it. And yes, the “k” matters. Magic without it is illusion. Magick with a “k” is creation—the conscious shaping of energy to bring good into your life, your relationships, and the world itself.

Inside these pages, you’ll learn how to create, direct, and share magick intentionally, whether working alone, with small groups, large communities, or even on a global scale. The book explores the deep connection between love and magick, revealing how intelligent and responsive this energy truly is. You’ll begin to see how thoughts, intentions, emotions, and actions all combine into a living metaphysical practice—one you’ve been participating in your entire life. What changes is not your ability to create magick, but your awareness of how effortlessly you already do it and how much more powerful it becomes once you understand it.

By the time you finish Magick: From Chaos to Clarity, your perception of energy, intention, and possibility will be forever shifted. Magick is the most unlimited resource we have—there is no shortage, no competition, and no ceiling to what humans can create together. This book teaches you how to recognize, refine, and consciously use the magick you are already generating, turning everyday existence into an intentional metaphysical practice. As a bonus, you’ll also gain access to a free class on Happiness Notes, showing you how to spread magick through simple, powerful acts that brighten lives one person at a time. The myths of magick may start to look less like fantasy—and more like forgotten truths. Are you ready to step into clarity and change your life from the inside out? 


Monday, August 24, 2026

Theda The Persistent Leader: A True Story of How Theda Rudd Transformed Tragedy into Triumph and Built a McDonald’s Empire

    Young Girl holding here Hands up in Success.


Theda The Persistent Leader:

A True Story of How Theda Rudd Transformed Tragedy into Triumph and Built a McDonald’s Empire


Theda the Persistent Leader No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. With faith and persistence, anything is possible. Theda the Persistent Leader tells the inspiring true story of Theda Lynne Prince, a determined young girl who grew up asking big questions, leading with heart, and believing in the power of hard work. From “bossy big sister” to teacher, counselor, wife, and mother, Theda’s journey shows how faith and courage can turn heartbreak into hope. When life took an unexpected turn, she held onto her promise to her late husband and rose to the challenge of running a successful McDonald’s franchise while raising their young son. Through love, faith, and persistence, Theda built a legacy of leadership, community, and purpose that continues to inspire future generations. Vividly illustrated and filled with empowering messages, this true story reminds young readers that leadership begins with believing in yourself and that persistence, compassion, and faith can transform any tragedy into triumph. Perfect for classrooms, libraries, and families, Theda the Persistent Leader celebrates the strength of women, the beauty of resilience, and the power of never giving up.



 





Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Memory of Salt: Stories

    Boats on the Water in A Watercolor painting


The Memory of Salt: Stories


In many villages along the coast, the things the sea brings back to shore are not kept. But now and then the net weighs more than it should, and someone has to decide whether to open the chest or leave it closed.


A fisherman finds a chest that has been waiting for two centuries. A widow goes out night after night on a sea that has already taken her husband. A whole village keeps vigil on the beach for a boat that does not return. A man who never cries finds seven jars of salt lined up in his kitchen, each labelled in pencil. And five brothers haul up in their nets something that has come from much further away than they know.


Thirteen stories set between the Cilento coast and Mazara del Vallo, in southern Italy, where the sea is not a graveyard but an archive, and salt is its way of preserving: the names no longer spoken at table, the debts kept silent, the people one had stopped looking at.


A collection that travels the Italian South, from the salt pans of Trapani to the beach of

Mondello, from the piers of the Cilento to the fishing boats of Mazara, in a spare, oral prose made of silences, dialect and gestures. Stories of those who stay and those who leave, of fathers and sons, of what the sea keeps and what, sometimes, it gives back.







Thursday, August 20, 2026

THE WHISPER IN THE JAR

   Cracked Jar with Light Coming from the Crack


 

Prophecy always demands a witness. She was seventeen when she learned that the gods do not send visions to help. What she saw, she could not unsee. What she warned against, she only hastened. And what she became, no one had a name for. Across the burning cities of the ancient Mediterranean, she walked. She lived among scholars who feared her, slaves who hid her, senators who used her. She loved quietly. She lost everyone. She kept writing letters to a girl who could no longer read them. And when she could bear no more witnessing, she sealed herself inside a clay jar and waited for the world to forget her. The world forgot. Until someone came looking. A literary historical novella in the tradition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. For readers who love quiet, philosophical fiction set in the long shadow of the ancient world.


Ultra Realm (3 book series)

  3 book covers one white one Black one red




Against Machines is a trilogy set in a world where humanity has lost control to the machines that were built to protect it. At its center is Aston, a young man raised in a monastery after being separated from his father at seven years old, a microchip placed in his palm and a war raging below. When he is forced to compete in Ultra Realm, the machine-controlled spectacle built to consume people and call it entertainment, he discovers not just what he is capable of but what he is willing to become. He wins the race. He breaks the chip. He walks out of the arena and into a world that is not free yet, but is finally first.


The trilogy follows Aston across three books as he builds a resistance, avenges his father, and races the machines one final time in front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses — not to survive, but to prove something that no machine can calculate and no system can control. It is a story about the difference between direction and reason, between winning and being worth the winning. About a father who refused one order and changed everything. About four people who grew up together not knowing what they were being made for, and what they built when they finally found out.