About
In 2000 she was highly honoured to win the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year – Lifetime Achievement, from the Women Business Owners of Manitoba (WBOM).
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Canadian writer who has published her first book; Roswitha-Memories of a Life’s Journey. As Roswitha write this book, it has not been an easy journey for her, but it has certainly been an exciting and colourful life.
She retired from her business in 2002, and she needed five years to write this book.
She went back to Red River College at age 66 and obtained her Assistant Teacher Certificate in Early Childhood Education (ECE). For the last five years she has been teaching German language and culture at the South Winnipeg Kinderschule.
Roswitha’s background as a successful businesswoman gives her a desire for perfection which she applies to her new vocation; she also brings in a rich cultural background and connections with the German and Austrian communities in Winnipeg which she is able to share with the children. Roswitha is well-loved by all the children and she continues to surprise everyone with her great imagination and educational ideas. She continues to take courses to the benefit of Kinderschule and the children, ranging from curriculum development to teaching techniques.
She is highly self-motivated and energetic, people-friendly and outgoing person who wishes to remain active. For that in the summer time she is touring as a Tour Director for Fehr-Way Tours through Manitoba, Ontario, and the USA.
As you read her story of an immigrant woman from Germany, perhaps you will be encouraged and inspired by her struggle and her successes as a self-made woman.
Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God
Description
<p>“<em>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(</em>Teilhard de Chardin<em>)</em></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;"><em>Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God </em> is as layered as a French cassoulet, as diverting, satisfying and as rich. Each reader will spoon this book differently. On the surface it seems to be a simple and light-hearted poetic journey through the history of Western thought, dominantly scientific, but enriched with painting and music. Beneath that surface is the sauce of a new evolutionary idea, involution; the informing of all matter by consciousness, encoded and communicating throughout the natural world. A book about the cathedral of consciousness could have used any language to paint it, but science is perhaps most in need of new vision, and its chronology is already familiar.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The author offers a bold alternative vision of both science and creation: she suggests that science has been incrementally the recovery of memory, the memory of evolution/involution</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">.</em></p><p>“<em> Involution proposes that humans carry within them the history of the universe, which is (re)discovered by the individual genius when the time is ripe. All is stored within our DNA and awaits revelation. Such piecemeal revelations set our finite lives in an eternal chain of co-creation and these new leaps of discovery are compared to mystical experience</em>” (From a reviewer)</p><p>Each unique contributor served the collective and universal return to holism and unity. Thus the geniuses of the scientific journey, like the spiritual visionaries alongside, have threaded the rosary of science with the beads of inspiration, and through them returned Man to his spiritual nature and origin.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The separation between experience and the rational intellect of science has, by modelling memory as theory, separated its understanding from the consciousness of all, and perceives mind and matter as separate, God and Man as distinct. This work is a dance towards their re-unification: Saints and scientists break the same bread.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">All of time and all the disciplines of science are needed for the evidence. Through swift (and sometimes sparring) Cantos of dialogue between Reason and Soul, Philippa Rees takes the reader on a monumental journey through the history of everything – with the evolution of man as one side of the coin and involution the other. The poetic narrative is augmented by learned and extensive footnotes offering background knowledge which in themselves are fascinating. In effect there are two books, offering a right and left brain approach. The twin spirals of a DNA shaped book intertwine external and internal and find, between them, one journey, Man’s recovery of Himself., and (hopefully) the Creation’s recovery of a nobler Man.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">From the same review “</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">The reader who finishes the book will not be the same as the one who began it. New ideas will expand the mind but more profoundly, the deep, moving power of the verse will affect the heart.</em></p><p><em>(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)</em></p><p> </p>
Story Behind The Book
Roswitha - Memories of a Life's Journey
Her first Autobiographical story filled with joyful and painful experiences alike.
From her childhood in Germany during and post-war to her years in a refugee camp, her story is a heroic tale of determination and survival.
Love, devotion and a sense of adventure brought the young couple and their children to Canada in 1967. Roswitha portrays the struggles of the early immigrant years in Canada and how she came to love this beautiful country.
After years of hard work, Roswitha eventually realized her dream of owning her own elegant restaurant and the years of determination and desire for perfection culminated in the high honour of winning the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award, from the Women Business Owners of Manitoba.
While writing her memoirs, she reflects on her life and, although it had not been easy, she has lead a truly colorful life. As you read through her journey, perhaps you will be encouraged and inspired by her great determination and courage. Through her struggles and her successes, she conveys the strong message that life's obstacles can be overcome.
Reviews
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:#008000;">Roswitha, A Life's Journey is a story that is heartwarming and at times heartbreaking, but ultimately triumphant. Roswitha Dessureault's indominable spirit and optimism shine through on every page, reminding readers to embrace their own life's journey. <span><span></span></span></span></span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">-Brenda Fehr</span> </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Freelance writer, Canstar/The Prime Times newspaper, Winnipeg</span> <br /><br /></span></span>
<div>Roswitha, July 16/09 </div>
<div>I'm so glad that I met you and got to know you before reading your remarkable story. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, even though it's heartbreaking at times. Through all the heartache you didn't give up, but bravely persevered, which speaks volumes of your inner strength, determination and faith. It's wonderful that you are now at a happy place in life and can look back and be proud of your accomplishments. </div>
<div>Blessings, </div>
<div>Linda </div></div>
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<p><font color="#008000">This book transcends one woman story. I really loved reading it as a Canadian, a Winnipegger, as a woman, as a granddaughter, as a mother. It spoke to me on many different levels.<br />Roswitha’s story made me grateful for everything I usually take for granted.<br />Thank you, Roswitha.</font><br /></p>
