Looking: Within, Down, Around and Up

By Rachel Landau

Rachel Landau’s writing and photography are uplifting on all levels; they inspire the reader’s mind, heart and spirit.

Her writing spans topics from the mundane to the most profound and lofty. Above all, it speaks to everyone.

Rachel Landau shows a deep appreciation for nature and human nature, for life and spirit. You might say that she helps us the readers aspire to live in joy, to show reverence for nature, and to connect with our spiritual core.


LOOKING Within, Down, Around and Up is a book you will read and re-read. You can open to any page at random or select a favorite poem. Each time you will be inspired.

The photos are a feast for your eyes, and you will find that after viewing them you will look at nature in a new way, and you will discover the joy of seeing things you had not seen before.

LOOKING is a book you will want to keep on your coffee table to share with family and friends, or at your bedside to open before falling asleep for a positive uplifting inspiration. You will find that picking it up anytime and opening to any page will give you inner nourishment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 28, 2005
• ISBN: 9781463480998

Rachel Landau

Rachel Landau   Writer and photographer Rachel Landau was born and raised in Israel. During two years of military service, she acted as General Moshe Dayan’s secretary and was company commander in a basic training camp for women. Rachel came to the United States in 1954 to study, graduating with honors in psychology from Clark University in Worchester, Mass. She cherished raising three sons and a daughter, and now has five grandchildren.   Rachel studied yoga and the art of movement extensively for seven years, and taught yoga and movement awareness. Those activities led her to the study of metaphysics and spirituality, subjects that she continues to pursue. Rachel studied and practiced hypnosis and stress management.   Rachel is a volunteer at Hospice by the Sea Care Center in Boca Raton, Florida, and is on the hospice speakers’ bureau, speaking throughout South Florida on various topics, including living life to the fullest.            

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Looking

Within, Down, Around and Up

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Collected writing and photography

by Rachel Landau

© 2005 Rachel Landau. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

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ISBN: 978-1-4208-7953-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-8099-8 (e)

Published by AuthorHouse 03/03/2022

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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Looking

Coming Close

Silence Is

Our River of Life

And I Give Thanks

And I Give Thanks

The Ocean Spot and I

Breath and Waves

The Beach and I

Peace in the Source

River of Life and Grace

Oh Light of Lights

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All Good Things Mushroom

Gloom Vanish!

My Best Was Not Good Enough

Shedding The Shell

Free The Light

Love Reflected

Which Came First?

To the Dead and Those Who Grieve

Sparkling Peace

Casting Loving Thoughts

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On Friendship

Touching

Love Is Always There

I Love Who You Are

Love and Loving

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The Lord’s Palette

Creating

Symphony of Creation

The Seasons

Nature’s Temple

Joy In My Heart

The Light of Joy

Youthful Joy

The Flower’s Gift

A Tribute to Creativity

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My River of Life

Reaching, Receiving, and Giving

I Thank You God

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Guess Who

Free!!!

The Butterfly

A Prayer for the New Millennium

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Biography

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Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I wish to thank my dear friend, graphic designer Ruth Lipnick, for the design of the interior of the book, her counsel and support. Special thanks to graphic designer Peter Honsberger for his generous counsel and support, and to editor Leslie Katz for her editing suggestions.

I wish to thank my dear friends Margaretta Watson, Edwin Hirschberg, Andrew Phillips and Joseph Pasin for encouraging me to keep on writing, and Ed Lundgren for his no nonsense, on-the-mark admonition: Well, then Publish It!!!

I wish to thank my many friends for their encouragement, support and love: to Maurice Picard, Mary Paris, Veronica Wheat, Gloria Sills, Grace and Andy Giovenco and their family, Helene Buntman, Jurgen Krupa, Sam