The Cost of Living: The New Work of Merrit Malloy

By Merrit Malloy

THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS SOMEWHAT DECEIVING. THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT THE COST OF LIVING, IT IS REALLY ABOUT THE COST OF NOT LIVING.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Aug 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475981063

Merrit Malloy

Merrit Malloy is a best selling poet. All of her books prior to THE COST OF LIVING were published by large NY publishers. This is her first book with iUniverse.. She is the author of 28 books and enjoys a worldwide following.. She now lives in Montecito, California and has two grown daughters and one spectacular grandson, Jack Riley.

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The Cost of

Living

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The

New Works

Of

merrit malloy

iUniverse LLC

Bloomington

Copyright © 2013. merrit malloy

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ISBN: 978-1-4759-8105-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-8106-3 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 7/29/2013

Table of Contents

The Cost of Living

The Loyals

The Partnership

Ying & Yang

The Way He Wears His Hat

How we are measured

Life

Woman’s Work

Priorities

How Yes includes No

The Muse

What Doesn’t Stop

Fire

Communication

Good Intentions (or what the road to hell is paved with)

Getting What We Really Ask For

The Agreement

Logic

Every Girl’s Dream

The Trap

Progress

What We Resist We Can’t Have

Auto Pilot

Similarities

Collusion

The laws of exchange

The Thing They Didn’t Tell Her

Revisions

Where we live

What can only happen now

First Cause

Tyranny

When Too Much Is Not Enough

What’s Missing

Directions

First things First

How we ask

Frequencies

Freedom from Descriptions

Where Dreams Come from

Vision Vs Seeing

The Key

Where We Come From

When Something Goes Right

Precaution

An Optimist Looks At Leaving

What thinking does

Real accomplishment

Illusions

What musicians taught me

What women must forgive

The Shift

Duet For One

How you can be a church

What we can’t have

The Trick

How we become whole

Why we steal

It is always today

The wonder of words

Time

The Eleven Communications

The Eleven Observations

The Eleven Revelations

What we Pray About

Reversing Nature

Perfection

We can’t be different without being similar first

Signs of Life

Semantics

What you taught me’

Irony

The Distinction

Non-Resistance

Lessons in being easy

Intention

How we look for love

Cartography

Information about Kings

What writers forget

Advice for Young Writers from an Old Poet

When remembering doesn’t work

Providence

The Cost of Not Living

Don’t mine for gold in a Jewelry Store

The Cost of Giving

The difference between Men and Women

Common Sense

Your Business

Holding Patterns

The First Fuel

The Trinity Duet

What Sees

Providence

What Becomes Clear

SEPaRATION

Peripheral Vision

The Irony of Self Promotion

Where Dreams Come From

Sharing 101

What Happens Anyway

Getting Off The High Horse

How We Recognize Each Other

The LAW

The Most Valuable Men

Where We Come From

Relearning Perception

The Examined Life

Reliability

Early Propaganda

ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES

Turning Point

You Can Dream

Here & There

Intervention

What Isn’t Missing

Crossing the Line

HomeMaking

What I Haven’t learned

What Won’t happen

A Promise

The Power of our thinking

Measurements

And finally there was you

Final Observations

About the Author

A Note From the Author

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