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    Saying Grace: Ms. Grace Leathers Shines On!
    Saying Grace: Ms. Grace Leathers Shines On!
    Saying Grace: Ms. Grace Leathers Shines On!
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    Saying Grace: Ms. Grace Leathers Shines On!

    By Chris Nelson

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    The stock of accumulated fairy tale literature?
    Surprisingly it might be smaller/be fewer than you think/surmise. Searching the internet for “fairy tales the world cherishes”, the number came to no more than a “round ten” or so of the best and most familiar household names, ones. As also with poetry on specific subjects and themes, especially those themes that I choose for my poems, THE FIELD IS WIDE OPEN FOR LACK OF COMPETITION.


    Fairy tales being known to be good for kids in many a’ way, including:
    - they teach that “good” always triumphs over “bad”, which serves to instill the idea firmly in children’s minds that they should/ought to fight for Right as well, emulating their fairy tale heroes and heroines when they become grown and go out into the world.
    - the stories most often have a “moral” or “lesson” to be drawn from them, from which kids can learn the many facets/dimensions of Right from Wrong, Wise from Foolish, and Caring from Uncaring, to name only a few.
    - fairy tales abstract from the “mortal” human condition, and lift us up into a world (lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry on a mountain high!), free of limitations where “hero” and “heroine” without fail, “live happily ever after”.

    What good can possibly come from such a blatant denial of Reality and the human condition as we know it?
    Could it be that it raises/lifts kids’ thinking “above the clouds and rain, way above the hurt and pain”, the woes and heartaches of this life, and would also equip them for the life as a pastor/preacher? hehe


    If this book has one contribution to make, it is hopefully to add to the existing stock of positivity-writ-large, “fairy tales the world cherishes”, (and to the stock of pastors!).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 30, 2023
    ISBN9781669875901
    Saying Grace: Ms. Grace Leathers Shines On!
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    Chris Nelson

    Chris Nelson (Christopher Richard Nelson) in full is now the proud author of eleven published/marketed books. He has another one complete and ready to go about people helping people, side by side, through love and life, *(with an assist from our canine friends). It is a wide ranging book, with quotable quotes, poetic portraits of the symphony family, Rock Beautiful Musical Maidens Singing their Hearts Out (from Carly Simon, To Sade, to Anne Muray, to Barbara Streisand to Katy Perry) (twelve) with two chapters about following the wagging tails of our canine friends to a better, less judgmental, more accepting and just plain friendlier world.

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