Jack Stewart

Jack Stewart's No Reason explores the relationship between faith, art, and the everyday, identifying the holy in both the imagined and the common. The poems about paintings as diverse as El Greco's Holy Family and Mary Magdalene, Sisley's Snow at Veneux, and Turner's Burning of the House of Lords meditate upon the lives outside of the canvases. For Stewart, narratives do not end at the frame's edge. Other poems reimagine biblical narratives, as Stewart sees Adam, Eve, Lot's wife, and Job still among us. In No Reason, Jesus is most fully divine when he is fully human. Interspersed with these poems are ones from Stewart's own life, his unwillingness to believe that this world is all there is (his angels not only pity Adam and Eve, but get tangled in the branches of elm trees or are embarrassed when caught humming just after the air conditioner quits) and his conviction that, at its most accessible, grace grows out of doubt: ""You lift your face / When you can't go on.""

The book presents the primary colors and black and white in the form of colored dots. In a simple story form each primary color red, yellow, and blue combined with each other by becoming bigger and bigger until new colors, green, orange and purple, plus gray, are created. It teaches recognition of colors, their names, and combining of colors to create new ones. Good for budding artists 2 years of age to adults.

A spacecraft lands in a London park in 2038. After a while the A. I. inside introduces itself as an Alien Ambassador, come to help mankind out of the fix it's in. He offers advanced alien know-how and the prime minister and US President make a deal. Two scientists, Shirl and Alex, are assigned as go-betweens and become entangled with each-other and the Alien Ambassador. They agree to help him to become independent and to change the world for the better. Their task is formidable and takes a very long time. They remain together throughout, going through many changes along the way, each more dramatic than the last. Their story is a tragi-comedy, like reality itself.

The Stewart family has been the subject of history, chronicles, dramas, operas, and novels for hundreds of years. Lands Where My Fathers Died meticulously recreates that history from 1230 A. D., when the first family member used STEWART as his surname, to the present. Here are the High Stewards, founders and benefactors of Paisley Abbey, the Cradle of the Stewarts, the royal Stewart kings and queens, accounts of the Stewarts of medieval Glasgow, through the Protestant Revolution until exiled into Ireland. When Hugh Stewart gets on a ship in Belfast and arrives in Pennsylvania in 1735 there are new stories of pioneers, frontiersmen, Indians, farmers and merchants, wars and crimes, births and deaths. Each generation gives equal accounts of both the male progenitors and their wives who became Stewarts by marriage. Throughout this book celebrates family life, the fathers and mothers who are the forebears of today's generation of Stewarts.