Dance with Your Heart: Tales and Poems That the Heart Tells Book

The wings spread wide, but freedom they cannot find. Open your heart and never let your imagination be confined. The tales and poems held between the pages of Dance with Your Heart are filled with inspirations, lessons, and magic. Most of the stories take no more than a few minutes to read, and yet they allow the reader to discover and visit worlds never before visited. Inch alongside a tiny snail as she goes through a journey of self-discovery in The Gift of Uniqueness, and learn that cooperation is the key to working successfully, yielding desirable fruits in the story, The Raging Sun and Rain. The poems range from thought-provoking to inspirational; their language is simple yet lyrical, and they are written with sincerity, clarity, and that rarest commodity: wisdom. Be prepared to be touched, taught, and tickled by these stories and poems. Dance with your heart; it takes only a free spirit and an open consciousness. Feel the full spectrum of emotions emitted by the words within. Be ready to laugh, to weep; and when you close the book for the last time, you will do so a changed person, so prepare yourself to take flight. Shirley Cheng, born in 1983, was diagnosed with severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at eleven months old. Due to years of hospitalization, she received no schooling until age eleven. Having achieved grade level in all areas after merely 180 days in a special education class in elementary school, she was transferred to a regular sixth grade class in middle school. Unfortunately, she lost her eyesight at the age of seventeen and received her high school equivalency diploma at 19. She did the entire GED exam, including mathematical calculations, graphs, and an essay, without Braille or vision, but still received a special recognition award for achieving a very high score. She hopes to earn science doctorates from Harvard University after a successful eye surgery. Shirley wrote some of these tales and poems when she was twenty years old using a screen reader on the computer, and self-published the book at the age of twenty-one, formatting the entire manuscript on her own. Many of the writings within the book are expansions of ones she had written during her teen years. She is also the author of Daring Quests of Mystics, and The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine: A Young Woman's Autobiography of a 20-Year Tale of Trials & Tribulations (ISBN: 1-4116-1860-2).Read More