Basic goodness means being good to yourself and others, yet we so often forget this simple truth. Too busy with the harried nature of life, we overlook quiet moments of calm in which we are given the opportunity to be kind. Those opportunities slip by unnoticed when they could be embraced and the goodness shared.Trinity is a collection of poems meant to reinvigorate the goodness in us all. Utilizing imagery, sensory devices, and poetic techniques, Bradley Bates creates a world of g...

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything.Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and err...

Mark Nepo is emerging as one of the truly significant writers and thinkers of today. Nepo has a singular way of distilling great truths down to their essence. Moreover, during his cancer journey, Nepo relied on the power of expression and the writing process to keep him tethered to life. In Reduced to Joy, Mark Nepo explores the places where pain and joy are stitched to resilience, uncovering them with deep wisdom, poetic passages and personal revelations. Nepo reminds us all of the secret...

In The Seven Whispers journal writing pioneer Christina Baldwin teaches us to listen to the inner voice that originates from each of our souls the voice of spirit. Though we may call this voice by whatever name has meaning for us spirit intuition or God hearing it is a universal human experience. Built around seven phrases or whispers Baldwins book is a personal guide for finding and listening to that voice. A powerful call to reenvision our lives told in the voice of a trusted friend The ...

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how ...

"Judi's life-changing story allows the reader to join her on a journey to self-acceptance.—Wynonna JuddIn this delightfully funny book, Dr. Hollis shares her path to permanent weight loss and demonstrates how little it has to do with what you are eating or what's eating you. It will teach you to start eating to nurture your true inner being to know when enough is enough. By changing how you behave, how you interact with others, how you face your own dark side, and ...

Mountain Biking in the Tao is the seminal work on Taoist philosophy and how it applies to mountain biking and life. Inspired by years of riding and meditation it gives the best possible advice on how to properly ride your mountain bike.Relax, be who you are, then go ride in the Tao on the trail nearest your own home.

#1 Poetry Foundation BestsellerMichigan Notable BookA beautifully mysterious inquiry... Here Harrison-forthright, testy, funny, and profoundly discerning-a gruff romantic and a sage realist, tells tales about himself, from his dangerous obsession with Federico García Lorca to how he touched a bear’s head, reflects on his dance with the trickster age, and shares magnetizing visions of dogs, horses, birds, and rivers. Oscillating between drenching experience and intellectual...

Align Your Creative Energy with Nature’sEverything we know about creating,” writes Tina Welling, we know intuitively from the natural world.” In Writing Wild, Welling details a three-step Spirit Walk” process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity.

Third in this series, A Home as Wide as the Earth continues the themes of belonging, wandering, and faith present in Rachel Devenish Ford’s blog, Journey Mama. In A Home as Wide as the Earth, Rachel travels on trains, buses, and rickshaws with her husband and children, journeying from the U.S. to India, Nepal, and Thailand, encountering God in the midst of both community and loneliness.Rachel’s writing is warm and honest, sparkling and clear. She beautifully captures the small ordi...

This humorous collection of 150 haikus captures the psyche of cats, and distills the essence of kitty behavior in the five-seven-five scheme of classic Japanese poetry. The poems are accompanied by line drawings.

Home with God was written to honor the kinship of all people. The stories and lessons it contains are designed to rekindle the readers memory of their true spiritual nature as sons and daughters of God, experiencing themselves as sovereign beings who have inadvertently forgotten their true identity.Following the advice of the last chapters twenty Frequency Elevators can lead to the readers mind/body/spirit healing and the potential restoration of his or her spiritual self. My mother...