Fascinations World Alive Butterfly Insect Kit

Steve Vai came up with an ambitious concept for the follow-up to his 1999 album The Ultra Zone : to write a series of compositions that related to different countries, and then to perform and record those tunes in the countries themselves. As he acknowledges in his liner notes to the hour-and-a-half-plus double-CD Alive in an Ultra World , logistics prevented him from exactly accomplishing his goals, especially with regard to geography, so that, for example, "Giant Balls of Gold," the song for Poland...

Who hasn’t suppressed a giggle or wiped away a tear after hearing a child’s perspective on life or loved ones? Mary Ann Casler and Tona Pearce Myers went to schools, playgrounds, churches, and family gatherings to collect the gems that make up Butterfly Kisses. The stories, accompanied by kids’ illustrations, reflect a wide variety of backgrounds and beliefs, but they all convey the joys and difficulties inherent in growing up. The book is divided into sections such as “What I’ve Learned So Far,...

Joa Bolendas, now in her eighties, is a contemporary Swiss visionary and down-to-earth mystic, in the mold of Hildegard of Bingen, who has had visions of spiritual beings since the 1950s. She grew up like any normal child, but it soon became evident that she had psychic gifts. With her confirmation into the Protestant church, she became aware of God guiding her and began to have important dreams. The first visions concerned the unity of the Churches. The heavenly figures who came to her also spoke...