David Rosen
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Texas Guinan was the queen of New York's speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were, backed by leading gangsters and welcomed, some of the city's biggest sharks and swankest swells. Movie stars, flappers, madams, musicians and more flocked to midtown's "Wet Zone," Greenwich Village and Harlem for inebriated entertainment. Patrons threw cultural norms aside as free-flowing hooch lubricated the jazz joints, sex circuses and drag balls that...
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During the tumultuous 1950s in America, sex was as threatening to the nation's moral order as communism. New York was the capital of the post-World War II world and the epicenter of a fierce culture war over music, theatre, movies, fashion, and literature, as well as birth control, homosexuality, adolescent sex, pornography, and prostitution. Over the last half-century, America's social life-especially notions of culture, sexuality, and politics-has...
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In nature, it is common knowledge that, like the diamond, gold is eternal. Nearing the age of seventy-five, David Rosen, though dealing with aging, chronic illness, and other end-of-life issues, recognizes also in this time that his creative ability is strengthened by keener and more intimate self-knowledge and by deeper connections with the earth and his surroundings. The title of this collection comes from Rosen's small poem, "Cold grey wind ......
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This book concerns transforming despair and its powerful pull toward suicide into a meaningful alternative: discovering the courage to live and finding meaning in life. This work applies Carl Jung's method of active imagination and its artistic products showing that when people learn to confront the rich images and symbols that emerge from their struggles, they can turn their turmoil into a fountain of creativity. He details the paths of himself and...
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Less is More is a collection of eight ten-minute plays. These tiny dramas speak to the necessity to say what is essential in a small number of words. As Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." The first play, "The Dissolution Mask," is by the well-known playwright Nancy West. The next two plays, "Thanatos Calling" and "Leap for Life," are the first ten-minute plays by David H. Rosen and they speak to an area of his research involving suicidology....
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Love is the very best analgesic for pain.
White roses
in memory of
a lost loved one
Wildflowers in bloom
the work of
an earth angel
Gentle rain . . .
star magnolia
glistens
My life depends
on a blue walker
moving slowly
Through the gate
around the pond
a cougar watches
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Historically there were more male therapists and more female patients. Just as society has changed, so has therapy. Jung's psychology includes the feminine aspects of a man and the masculine parts of a woman. Of course, today it is a complete psyche or an inner marriage. In the background would be a mandala, which also represents wholeness and individuation. Synchronicity is an acausal but meaningful relationship, which therapy honors. Jung's psychology...
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This volume of small verses was written as I approached the age of eighty. It recounts love experiences, travels to far off places and settling in a forest cottage with Lanara. It's about finding my way and coming to terms with myself and God. Now, I will let a few of these little poems speak for themselves.
In the dark divine
one finds the light of
God
What you
give me . . .
beyond words
At 53, in
China,
I marvel at life
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Soul to Soul: Aphorisms for Life is about maxims that guide the growth and development of individuals. These principles gave direction as one proceeds along life's pathways. Hopefully the guideposts that are outlined will enable others to walk down their caminos in ways that feel sure and playful.
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Look Closely is the eighth collection of haiku by this author.
His first, The Healing Spirit of Haiku (2004 & 2014), was co-authored with Joel Weishaus. White Rose, Red Rose (2017) was written with Johnny Baranski.
His five other collections are as follows: Clouds and More Clouds (2013), Spelunking Through Life (2016), Living With Evergreens (2017), In Search of the Hidden Pond (2017), and Torii Haiku (2018).
Haiku is magical, as it allows for...
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There are mysteries to solve when adults think a child is creating a problem, but the child isn't quite so sure. Enjoy two intriguing stories by David H. Rosen:
Samantha the Sleuth: The Case of the Missing Socks
Once again, Samantha's sock drawer contains nothing but odd socks, all different lengths, different shapes, different colors. Samantha's mother insists that Samantha must be losing them under her bed or at basketball practice. Samantha isn't...
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The New York Yankees don't call themselves the "Bronx Bombers" for nothing. And though Babe Ruth did not invent the home run, he did indeed popularize it and make it seem less vulgar.
New York Yankees Home Run Almanac presents a month-by-month tally of historic, important, unusual, or titanic home runs, hit mostly by Yankees (or players who hit them at Yankees ballparks). It covers everyone from Ruth to Mickey Mantle, Alex Rodriguez, Joe DiMaggio,...