PHYLLIS PARUN
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MY  LIFE  IN  WORDS.
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POETRY

Between Poetry and the Blues
New Orleans
BETWEEN POETRY AND THE BLUES


New Orleans has long been as mysterious to writers as the people who live in it. Insights into her secrets are illusive and the line between fiction and reality invisible. Native New Orleanian, Phyllis Parun, continues this tradition with romanticized tales about her native home for all who love the city as she does. With gracefully chosen phrases and personal vision, the author has written beautiful dreams about life in New Orleans, philosophy, beauty, love, lust, art and poetry.


New Orleans Born
New Orleans
​BORN


A New Orleans memoir, soul travel, poetic odyssey, intimate portraits, "New Orleans Born" transports readers into the mythical realm of New Orleans, home to artists, musicians and writers, where the arts flourish. The author, a native New Orleanian, writes enchanted stories of insight and love about her family, her life experiences, and her beloved city, blurring lines between fiction and non-fiction, past and present, painting vivid images of the complexities of life's joys and sorrows sure to echo in your own life.

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PHYLLIS PARUN

New Orleans native Phyllis Parun, visual artist with a philosopher's pen, writes poetry to share the beauty she finds in searching and questioning. Ms. Parun has spent a large part of her adult life exhibiting visual art and working as an arts activist in New Orleans, writing the city's first 1% for Arts Ordinance, founding arts organizations, operating a Fine and Decorative Arts Studio, restoring antique furniture and reviving the  lost gilded arts.  As an arts, health and political activist, Ms. Parun has been a catalyst shaping the unwritten culture of the New Orleans landscape. Readers will surely find her insightful writing coming from deep inner reserves.

https://www.phyllisparun.com/
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PHILOSOPHY

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WISDOM TRADITIONS EAST WEST
LIVING A FULFILLING LIFE


How to live a meaningful life is the question everyone asks on some level. The author approaches the questions raised here from the depths of both European and Asian philosophy. The author focuses on "What is health?"  This essay is intriguing because it is based on the author's personal experience, illustrated with stories by her clients whose health challenges brought these questions poignantly face-to-face with the question of meaningful life.

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ART

The New Orleans Avant-Garde
THE NEW ORLEANS
​AVANT-GARDE


The New Orleans Avant-Garde publishes articles about current issues as well as history of New Orleans contemporary arts and culture.  In 2008, three years after the Katrina flood of New Orleans, it became apparent to Artist-Writer-Publisher, Phyllis Parun, that New Orleans needed an independent artistic voice. The New Orleans Avant-Garde is intended as an independent press featuring the inside stories of those artist-writers and the history of those who are the creators of the New Orleans art scene.   This newsletter is available free of charge online or in hardcopy at local artist hangouts.

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The Art of Modern Drawing
THE ART OF
​MODERN DRAWING


What to learn to draw, improve your drawing, your way of seeing, or to teach drawing. This is a self-teaching workbook designed to teach students of all ages learn how to draw and for teachers to teach drawing to students of all ages. The structure is by lessons, eleven of them covering eleven different subjects. It is theoretical and it is practical skill training. Finally, identifying what one’s skill level is easy with a one page grid. They one can repeat the lessons one needs to improve. It is a fun, aesthetically enjoyable method for drawing better.

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Anthology-Healthy Teeth
ANTHOLOGY:  HEALTHY TEETH

​Published separately, this anthology bundles the articles about teeth healing themselves, how to develop a holistic and eco-friendly oral home care method, what a dentist can do and what you need to do for yourself, recent innovations in dental treatments you need to know about, nutrition and healthy teeth issues. In short, this is everything you need to be well informed and keep your teeth healthy for a lifetime. You will get detailed instruction on how to clean your teeth, what products to use and why that will make you more self-reliant and help you avoid dentists who might damage your teeth unnecessarily.


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RADIANT HEALTH ANTHOLOGY:
TEETH AND EYES


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​This is an anthology of articles on cutting edge information about teeth and eye health for everyone. Radiant Health Primer is designed to help you establish a baseline of your current mindset, values, and health goals. Subsequent sections will address food choices, tooth and eye health, global health traditions, effortless movement, massage, meditation, graceful aging and living a long happy life.
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The Best Nutrition for Teeth and Bones
THE BEST NUTRITION
​FOR TEETH (AND BONES)


This article will help you become health self-reliant and avoid damage to your body and teeth. Your teeth are living tissue and energetically connected to your whole body. The health of your teeth is not separate from the health of your body. What you do to make your body healthier also helps to make your teeth healthier. What is not good for the whole body is not good for your teeth and visa versa. There is, therefore, no special diet for teeth that does not affect your whole health. Neither medical doctors nor dentists are trained to make health evaluations or even to discuss how you can reverse your nutrition.

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EYE HEALTH &
VISION IMPROVEMENT


This article address how poor vision and degenerative vision loss can be improved using various preventive practices. It suggests an intensive 3-6 month home care program to improve your vision by restoring depleted reserves, corrective eye use and addressing over all health. The program includes eye retraining, self-massage, acupressure points, foods and supplements. The extensive resources and links can be indispensable in helping you continue your own research after reading this article. You can learn to be your own doctor. The more you follow the recommendations, the sooner you will see improvement.


Teeth Heal Themselves
TEETH HEAL THEMSELVES

The vegan, vegetarian and macrobiotic body is a delicately balanced natural system fed by organic foods when done well. Our energetic system is very sensitive, and rightly so, to even the slightest energetic changes whether beverage, food, environment, or emotions. Synthetic antibiotics and supplements are much too extreme for our systems. It’s like pouring poison into the oceans killing fish. This book is the result of my research into tooth health – a subject sorely neglected in vegan, vegetarian and macrobiotic practice. I write this hoping to prevent the reader from tooth damage by wrong diet, modern dentistry or allopathic medicine.

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​EYE FITNESS

Regular daily eye exercise is good for the eye muscles. A home eye fitness program can improve your vision in two short sessions a day. This condensed daily program includes eye exercises, self-massage and acupressure points. With consistent daily practice of these exercises, you will feel and see improvement. This Eye Fitness Program is a companion to the eye education presented in the author’s other two Kindle articles: "Eye Health and Vision" and "Eye Health Best Practices". Many people who have successfully improved their eyesight use all of these eye activities, and so can you.​


Healthy Teeth the Holistic Way
HEALTHY TEETH
THE HOLISTIC WAY


In this article, you will learn how your teeth heal themselves, how to develop holistic and eco-friendly oral home care, what a dentist can do and what you need to do for yourself, recent innovations in dental treatments, nutrition and healthy teeth issues. Hear from consumers who had similar experiences and dentists who quit practicing dentistry to teach. Included are detailed instructions on how to clean your teeth, what products to use and how to avoid dentists who might damage your teeth unnecessarily.

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​BEST EYE HEALTH PRACTICES

This article on eye health presents the best health practices from Macrobiotics, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda for healing naturally, presenting the unique contributions of these three traditions. It includes foods, practices, exercises, treatments and acupressure points that support good vision and reverse degenerative eye conditions.  These give any student of vision improvement crucial information for developing a personal program that works best and one that can be effectively used on a daily basis.
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