News that stays news

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Date: 06th February 2011.
News that stays news:Barbara Johnson-Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy
The statement news that stay news is used to describe works of literature that remains relevant and significant through many generations as its content can relate to its readers despite being from a different generation as the author of the literature. This implies that such kind of work ca be read by readers from different ages and still derive a relevant information from them. For instance if read by a youth the information obtained is different when read by an adult at fifty years of age but the good is that the content inside still remains as news to both readers.
For example the book entitled Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy by Barbara Johnson was written in early 1990’s but readers from different generations can relate to it and hence termed as news that stay news. The book touches on various emotional issues that resonate in every reader who has ever known disappointments or even tensions that result from unhappy life. The book is devotional as well as funny and invites women to making small changes in their lives through the spread of humor and laughter. In addition to being funny the book touches on inspirational issues that laughter can bring or make lives pf people better.
Therefore the book inspires any reader who has ever had a real crisis in their life that made them to believing that they will never have laughter again hence its content remains news to them especially in this world where pain is inevitable. Johnson focuses on building the confidence of the readers of its work by writing on the devastating experiences she has survived in her life and how she found joy in the midst of the struggles and shock of her life.
Some of the issues Barbara tackles in the book include various ways of handling a shocking discovery of finding that a loved one either child or spouse is homosexual and the pressures that come resulting to shame and guilt especially from the stigma that is directed from the social and religious setting. She sheds light on the guilt that she argues that is a crushing weight that if not handled well may lead to life full of misery. The fact that lesbians and gay men are facing discrimination in this era and are seeking their rights means that the contents of the book relate to them and the family members thus reaming appealing hence termed as news that stay news.
Barbara in her book also touches on the true meaning of letting go and the relinquishment that comes with int. in addition to that she also talks of uncovering sexual abuse in a family set up which she says is a family secret. she also touching on the scourge of aids and she offers motivating tips to the victim ...