ROSE PETALS AND TEA LEAVES, roses of the Alhambra and other stories is an openhearted and heartwarming book about roses, love, loss, grief, history, religion and faith against the background of beautiful places like Paris, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. It includes the poems the "Roses of the Alhambra" and "Girl in the White Dress", published for the first time, as well as some beautiful pictures of the roses of the Alhambra. Most stories in this book were first published in ROSE PETALS AND TE...

In a quiet valley, a humble stone named Rocky undergoes a transformative change that leads to its enlightenment. As rumors reach out about this legendary stone and serenity spreads through the valleys, Rocky is challenged to its core. Will Rocky stay true to itself?

This form of expression is, an abstract reflective, poetic inflection, in dealing with depression, religion and significant events (both in English and Papiamentu). As a Social Worker, I want to support those with a lesser view of their own habits, to make use of their own strength, your internal strength. Within this work, you can view some of my own dilemmas. My personal dilemmas as when a teenager between the year 1994 - 2000 (from my 12th to my 18th,) did turn into larger, significant vib...

Barbara Bahtiar was born in 1963 in Alkmaar (Holland) as the eldest of three sisters. Her youngest sister died shortly before her first birthday, so grief has been part of her life from the beginning.

As a child, she used to read a lot of books, especially fairy tales about foreign countries. She travelled to imaginary beautiful places which comforted her in her loss. Besides this, she developed the gift of writing, first in her diaries, later as an intuitive psychologist by writing meditatio...