Women, Wisdom and Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul, plays a vital role in empowering women in the work of healing their lives and the world around them. In this elegant and practical guide on feminine wisdom and dreams, Anne Scott leads us into a deepening relationship with our dream world, not only to help us understand its personal significance, but also to use the insights we uncover there to help heal our world. Asking us to cultivate a courageous attentiveness to our inner lives, Anne Scott provides valuable tools for restoring the link between feminine spirituality and social change. Reclaiming the language of dreams, practicing states of inner attention and stillness in our busy lives, and gathering in groups to share from a deeper place, offer rich methods for reconnecting to the love, joy and creativity that are our birthright and contribution to life.

Women, Wisdom & Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul

Scott, Anne

Religion & Spirituality

Nicasio Press

In this concise book of 52 weekly contemplations, quotations from poets, writers, saints, and sages provide the impetus to examine daily life events and extract spiritual insights. Through the contemplation exercises in the book, readers become skilled in self-inquiry and contemplation, tools which break the bondage of negative thoughts and emotions, and lead to a more fulfilling and peaceful life. Spanish Translation.

Una Vida de Indagación: Contemplaciones Semanales (English and Spanish Edition)

Duggan, Laura R

"Dad, Tell Me a Story" is ideal for all parents who wish to enrich family time by creating a storytelling tradition at home. With candor and charm, John McCormick shows how one everyday dad created nightly stories with his young boys, weaving bits of their daily lives into a memorable collection of bedtime tales. "Dad, Tell Me a Story" offers valuable guidance on how to make up stories with your own children, while sharing parenting insights reflecting the wonder and joy of raising kids. Learn how the magic of storytelling can give your children the unforgettable gift of spending time with you in the world of make believe. (Ages 5 to 11).

Dad, Tell Me a Story: How to Revive the Tradition of Storytelling with Your Children

John T. McCormick

Children's Books

If The Universe Is Perfect... is a simply written book of practical philosophy. Through the voice of Henry, a man of extraordinary wisdom, who weaves his knowledge and wit in a most interesting manner, we take a journey through the principles that allow us to make sense of the world, and help us understand the real purpose of our life on planet earth. In addition to the timeless wisdom offered through the story of Henry, the book contains inspired poems and short stories. If The Universe is Perfect... is thought-provoking and challenges mistaken beliefs we hold about the perfection of all things.

If the Universe Is Perfect, Then...

Noble, Dennis

"Dad, Tell Me a Story" is ideal for all parents who wish to enrich family time by creating a storytelling tradition at home. With candor and charm, John McCormick shows how one everyday dad created nightly stories with his young boys, weaving bits of their daily lives into a memorable collection of bedtime tales. "Dad, Tell Me a Story" offers valuable guidance on how to make up stories with your own children, while sharing parenting insights reflecting the wonder and joy of raising kids. Learn how the magic of storytelling can give your children the unforgettable gift of spending time with you in the world of make believe. (Ages 5 to 11). For more information about storytelling with children, visit www.DadTellMeAStory.com

McCormick, John T.

In this unique and compelling book, the author examines side by side the works of Eastern mystical philosophers and poets and some of their Western counterparts, not attempting to assimilate them to each other, but rather to observe what sparks of insight fly when their writings are brought into alignment. He focuses throughout on their various conceptions of the imagination and, more broadly, of consciousness itself. In the first part of the book, he reads the work of the great American Modernist poet Wallace Stevens, using as a framework the philosophy and aesthetics of Abhinavagupta, a tenth-century Kashmiri philosopher and mystic. In subsequent parts, he goes on to explore affinities between a wide range of Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Sufi philosophers and poets and a number of Western authors, focusing in particular on Blake, Keats, and Shelley. In prose both clear and seductively lyrical, the author invites the reader to explore spiritual, intellectual, and aesthetic vistas, at first no doubt unfamiliar, in which he or she gradually becomes more and more at home. Throughout Some Segments of a River, the author's aim is to open up these vistas and to stir the reader's own intuitive and imaginative powers--powers that are applicable to any endeavor and that quite simply, in the words of Wallace Stevens, "help us to lead our lives."

Some Segments of a River: On Poetry, Mysticism, and The Imagination

Literature & Fiction

Franklin, George

History & Criticism

In The Chorister: Evolution of Voice Jack Miller conducts for us twenty-nine of his curious, full color art images and the stories they caused to come into being, including: a turtle man who finds his place between the species; five siblings who share one large garment and dazzle crowds with their odd work ethic; a bereaved kid brother who finds a way to sleep well despite his own pressing mortality; a variant of rabbit who, though outcast, takes his place at a very important table; and more.       The prose poems and short stories tell us of imperfect characters who start in predicaments of everyday living and respond with tenacious striving to live better.  From starting an undersea utopia to dramatizing a long overdue apology, we see characters who will never be celebrities, but cannot help but be the heroes of their circumstances.       The author's family has many scientists and intensely creative people.  It makes sense that he studied art and science together since early childhood, and that in The Chorister he is avid like an artist for the beautiful and the offbeat, yet diligent as a scientist who wants to be clear and forge ahead.      The images are engaging and quirky, the storytelling flows, yet the intensity of writing suggests this book be read a few pieces at a time rather than straight through.  A book for the nightstand rather than a day at the beach.     While a few of Jack Miller's characters contend with mature subject matter, no high schooler would be shocked.  Perhaps like certain beloved stories "for children of all ages," avid younger readers should be able to understand and enjoy at least the surfaces of some stories now, and their greater depths later on.  (Ages 12 to adult.)

The Chorister: Evolution of Voice

Arts & Photography

Jack Miller

Individual Artists

A Multidimensional Life: The Legacy of Arjun K. Gupta

Biographies & Memoirs

Gupta, Arjun K.

Professionals & Academics

In this revelatory book, poet George Franklin describes his encounters with illustrious figures in the arts who taught, mentored, or inspired him, and provides extended commentaries on some of their most characteristic creations. Equal parts memoir and critical study, it illuminates the lives and works of artists he came to admire and in some cases to revere, in the process tracing the ways they informed his own sense of vocation as a writer.\nHis relationships with the great modern dancer and choreographer Erick Hawkins and the trailblazing composer Lucia Dlugoszewski prove as nourishing and illuminating to him as his interactions with such literary luminaries as Elizabeth Bishop, William Maxwell, Robert Lowell, Marie Ponsot, and Robert Fitzgerald. Franklin writes in his preface to this volume: "From all of these artists, I have learned of the importance of attending to that which even the most well-chosen, resonant words, the most expressive, exorbitant, and skillfully executed physical gestures, the most beguiling, enthralling, or overwhelming arrangements of notes, can never quite express, but which it is the burden and joy of the artist, nevertheless, to try to express."\nAnyone interested in the arts, either as practitioner or as enthusiast, will find here much to delight, intrigue, and inspire.

Portraits From Life: A Poet's Mentors

Sailing the Sea of Dreams

Schafman, Judith

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Women, Wisdom & Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul

Una Vida de Indagación: Contemplaciones Semanales (English and Spanish Edition)

Dad, Tell Me a Story: How to Revive the Tradition of Storytelling with Your Children

If the Universe Is Perfect, Then...

Dad, Tell Me a Story: How to Revive the Tradition of Storytelling with Your Children

Some Segments of a River: On Poetry, Mysticism, and The Imagination

The Chorister: Evolution of Voice

A Multidimensional Life: The Legacy of Arjun K. Gupta

Portraits From Life: A Poet's Mentors

Sailing the Sea of Dreams