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Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times and Bad by Jonathan Lockwood Huie and Mary Anne Radmacher - available NOW from Conari PressPlace your order now at Amazon's discount price

Does your life appear overwhelming? Is stress dominating your days. Does worry disturb your sleep?

It is possible to enjoy a happy life, even in the face of life's most challenging circumstances. Let Simply An Inspired Life be your guide to a joyful life - your beacon of hope in a troubled and confusing world.

By examining the Eight Points of An Inspired Life that enable "Taking the Helm on Your Life Voyage," Simply An Inspired Life provides compass and chart for discovering release from emotional pain through stories of self-inflicted suffering, stories of joy, and insights into what makes the difference.

Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past. Receive insight into relieving the pain caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life. Observe life as it currently appears, and then train yourself to observe life from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living. Re-consider your priorities. Chart your Course. Set Sail with Courage.


Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
- mary anne radmacher

Mary Anne Radmacher's most famous quote is now the basis of her newest book. Courage Doesn't Always Roar by Mary Anne Radmacher, is now available for pre-order - to be shipped March 1, 2009.

Her publisher, Conari Press, describes it:  This little book is a winning combination of original art and hand-lettered words created to celebrate accomplishments and inspire courage. "Courage doesn't always roar. . ." is the all-time best-selling Mary Anne Radmacher art poster. And now she's created a book that celebrates and promotes courage in our everyday lives.

* "Courage doesn't always roar" is Radmacher's bestselling aphorism, and is in the Oxford Book of Quotations.

* For the first time Radmacher combines her signature artwork with her unique aphoristic talents in a small and appealing, full-color gift format.

* Courage Doesn't Always Roar is an inspiring any-occasion gift book -- great for graduation, Father's Day, the perfect present for someone starting a new job or going through a hard time.

* With twenty pieces of art created originally for this book, Courage Does Not Always Roar will quietly and grandly make its way into the hearts of readers everywhere.

From the book:
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." It takes courage to change your style, your opinion, the path you walk, your hat! It takes courage to let go of the weighty parts of your past. It takes courage to find your own voice.


Mary Anne Radmacher is the author of Live Boldly and Lean Forward into Your Life, also published by Conari Press.

Live Boldly: Profound Words of Encouragement

Of course you own a copy of Mary Anne Radmacher's Live Boldly and have gifted a copy to each of your best friends. If not, here are my thoughts on Live Boldly.

Mary Anne gifts her readers with the stepping stones to a full and joyous life.

Mary Anne shares a world of rich dreams becoming even richer finely textured realities.

Mary Anne and the people of her world reach out to offer a smile and profound words of encouragement.

Whenever the storm clouds of my own world appear overwhelming, I turn to Mary Anne’s words for a reminder that everything good is possible in its own way and its own time.

I love the way Mary Anne tells a story – as in the Compassion chapter of Live Boldly. It drips like honey off her pen. I love the story. I love the telling. I smell the smells, feel the fear, and smile at the incoherent way life runs us in circles while inscribing the real lessons in a corner of the margin.

Mary Anne reveals the wisdom of the ages like a Wayne Dyer or a Deepak Chopra, but with the intimacy of the YaYa Sisters.

Reading Mary Anne’s warm comfortable words is even more comforting than a cup of cocoa and a warm bathrobe.

Thank You,
  Jonathan


May Your Walls Know Joy by Mary Anne Radmacher, will be available August 2009.  Her publisher, Conari Press, describes it: Mary Anne Radmacher could be the Martha Stewart of inspired living -- living life to its fullest. Her previous books, Live Boldly and Lean Forward into Your Life, share stories and strategies for savoring every morsel of this life and living up to our fullest potential and beyond our wildest dreams.

In May Your Walls Know Joy, Radmacher returns to her signature style, combining a few poetic, aphoristic words with beautifully constructed fourcolor art. This book is a celebration of home and family and all that they mean -- a refuge from the world, a creative incubator, where lives are lived and friends are welcome. "Home, a party waiting to happen. Home, a story waiting to be told. Home, a memory waiting to be made."

This book is a benediction and a blessing for a new home (or for a special occasion in an old home):
"May your walls know joy, each room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. May home be the place from which you launch your dreams."