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A Tree of Life: A Story in Words, Images, and Texts $15.00
A Tree of Life: A Story in Word, Image and Text is “a meditation on our universal journey through trauma toward healing.” A series of about 60 double-page spreads unfolds a story from innocence to despair to understanding through a combination of poetic moments, quotes from Jewish tradition, and black-and-white photographs of trees. The book provides a tender yet powerful experience as a “tool for coping, for learning, and for growing” during the challenging times we face in our lives. For the reader, the journey is personal as well as universal as you engage visually, through ancient and modern words, and multidimensionally through the integration of all three media.
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Earth Etudes for Elul $15.00
The month of Elul is a time for reflection, a time for t’shuvah, of turning and re-turning to G!d and to our best selves, in preparation for the Days of Awe. It is time for heshbon hanefesh, examining our hearts and souls. Elul is the time for us to begin to make atonement for the things we wish we had or hadn’t done, and to renew ourselves, to do all we can to get ourselves to change. To help you on this journey, you will find in this volume a series of reflections for the month of Elul, divrei Earth—teachings that connect Earth and Torah. Use this volume to help you expand your own reflections about t’shuvah: read a few etudes a day or even select by theme. Themes include climate change, community and covenant, cycles, nature, gardening, personal behavior, rituals, and turning.
These reflections, meditations filled with Jewish wisdom, are written by rabbis, hazzans, environmentalists, gardeners, activists, educators, storytellers, poets, scientists and other spiritual leaders, reflecting many points of view and ways of looking at the world and the process of t’shuvah. The author list includes:
Rabbi Adina Allen
Rabbi Katy Allen
Rabbi Steve Altarescu
Tali Anisfeld
Maggid David Arfa
Rachel Aronson
Molly Bajgot
Hazzan Shoshana Brown
Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
Sarah Chandler, MA
Rabbi Howard A. Cohen
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen
Sandra N. Daitch
Rabbi Robin Damsky
Susie Davidson
Janna Diamond
Rabbi Dorit Edut
Rabbi Jeff Foust
Judith Felsen, PhD
Rabbi Moshe Givental
Rabbi Laurie Gold
Dr. Mirele Goldsmith
Rabbi/Cantor Anne Heath
Thea Iberall, PhD
Rabbi David Jaffee
Daniel Kieval
Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein
David Krantz
Rabbi Judith Kummer
Dr. Scott Lewis
Maxine Lyons
Leora Mallach
Rabbi Natan Margalit, PhD
Hattie Nestel
Joelle Novey
Andy Oram
Joan Rachlin, JD, MPH
Carol C. Reiman
Leslie Rosenblatt
Lois Rosenthal
Richard M. Schwartz, PhD
Rabbi David Seidenberg
Rabbi Jacob Siegel
Howard Smith
Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman, MSW
Nyanna Susan Tobin
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Rabbi Judy Weiss
Steph Zabel, MSc
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Homeokinetics: The Basics $15.00
Homeokinetics is the physics of complex systems. These are universes, galaxies, or planetary subsystems, or even social systems. A complex system is one where there is a tremendous amount of internal exchange by the actors. The physics of complex systems is played out on the basis of trying to understand what these complex internal agents are doing. This book is for scientists in fields such as biology, economics, anthropology, political science, physiology, and experimental psychology. Whether a discipline studies atoms, molecules, cells, people, stars, galaxies, or universes, the same tools can be used to understand them.
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The Medfield Sermons 2016-2019 $20.00
Unitarian Universalists (UU) are spiritual seekers who look for wisdom from a variety of religious traditions. This means UU preachers must draw from many sources of spiritual comfort and on their own resources of reading, experience and reflection. In these sermons, Rev. David Chandler provides his wry perspective on congregational life in all its facets, reminding us of our human weaknesses and strengths. He makes us smile, think and appreciate the gifts and burdens of life. These 65 sermons are organized into six themes: The Congregational Garden, Human After Always, Ministry is a Team Sport, Searching Out Believing, Wanting What is Right, Why Does This Matter?
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The Swallow and the Nightingale $20.00
This modern fable is about a 4,000-year-old secret brought through time by the birds. While trying to save her scientific reputation, Dr. Deborah Wright discovers that the swallows at San Juan Capistrano are singing a human song. And her daughter makes an impossible request. Against today’s backdrop of environmental decay, Deborah risks her life to find answers and heal her family and the world. Unaware, she follows an ancient Sufi’s seven valleys towards enlightenment.
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Tools for the Caregiver $20.00
A Workbook for Finding Yourself Through Caregiving
Shirley Riga spent decades as a primary caregiver for her youngest daughter and evolved tools and insights for emotional survival. Tools for the Caregiver is a workbook designed to help those feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities and demands on their caregiving journey. It provides time-tested tips, tools and insights for you to explore your thoughts and beliefs. Riga’s goal is to help caregivers cope with their daily lives and maintain a connection with themselves in the process.
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Tools For The Exceptional Parent Of A Chronically-ill Child $9.95
Parenting a chronically-ill child, holding a family together, and taking care of oneself in the process is often an insurmountable task. As caregivers, you give and give, making life changing decisions for your children. Often, it’s only your will and determination that makes the endless problems survivable. But you need care too. When her daughter was born with two liver diseases, Shirley’s life was upended into a whirlwind of doctors and hospitals. In this book, she shares how she learned and applied tools for emotional survival. It takes courage to find peace. Shirley gives hope and understanding for other parents and caregivers of special children.
