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Color

The Language of Light

By: Karen Speerstra

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Color

The Language of Light

By: Karen Speerstra

Color: The Language of Light" examines how color affects our lives, our emotions, and our hearts. It moves from an exploration of how artists use color, to color classifications and models, before delving into the spirituality and healing propensities of color. Karen Speerstra takes her readers on a journey of exploring the darkness and light of the auras and chakras, and the "colors" of birth, death and the afterlife. "Color" leads to a deeper understanding how the language of light heightens our awareness of the beauty around and within us, and nurtures the imagination of each living being.

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257

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1611250188

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9781611250183

The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition

Living Well to Life's End

By: Karen Speerstra,Herbert Anderson

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Living Well to Life's End

By: Karen Speerstra,Herbert Anderson

The Divine Art of Dying aims to empower people who are dying to live as fully as they can until life's end. The book includes reflections from Karen Speerstra's hospice journal and essays written jointly by Speeratra and Herbert Anderson on learning to wait, letting go, giving gifts, and telling stories. Each chapter has suggestions for caregivers.

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240

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506478875

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9781506478876

Our Day to End Poverty

24 Ways You Can Make a Difference

By: Shannon Daley-Harris,Jeffrey Keenan,Karen Speerstra

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Our Day to End Poverty

24 Ways You Can Make a Difference

By: Shannon Daley-Harris,Jeffrey Keenan,Karen Speerstra

Our Day to End Poverty invites us to look at the twenty-four hours in our very ordinary days and to begin to think about poverty in new and creative ways. The authors offer scores of simple actions anyone can take to help eradicate poverty. Each chapter takes a task we undertake during a typical day and relates it to what we can do to ease the world's suffering. We begin by eating breakfast, so the first chapter focuses on alleviating world hunger. We take the kids to school--what can we do to help make education affordable to all? In the afternoon we check our email--how can we ensure the access to technology that is such an important route out of poverty? The chapters are short and pithy, full of specific facts, resources for learning more, and menus of simple, often fun, and always practical action steps. Anne Frank wrote, "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Let's get started. It is our day to end poverty.

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249

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1576755266

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Hunab Ku

77 Sacred Symbols for Balancing Body and Spirit

By: Karen Speerstra,Joel Speerstra

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Hunab Ku

77 Sacred Symbols for Balancing Body and Spirit

By: Karen Speerstra,Joel Speerstra

The Mayan symbol Hunab Ku represents movement and energy—the principle of life itself—in a spiraling design reminiscent of the Eastern yin-yang symbol. As an embodiment of harmony and balance, Hunab Ku invites us into the age of consciousness, which is predicted to begin on December 21, 2012.HUNAB KU prepares us for this cosmic awakening by presenting 77 sacred symbols that create an interactive system for learning, healing, and meditation. Beautifully illustrated and exhaustively researched, this virtual pilgrimage invites us to explore artifacts, earthworks, numerological patterns, and archetypes from diverse traditions the world over: ancient Greece, the Americas, Africa, the British Isles, Babylon, India, and beyond. Hunab Ku waits for you at the book’s center, the threshold between our present age and the coming age of enlightenment. Like runes, tarot, and other pathworking systems, the archetypes herein open doors, create bridges, and shed light on our past and our future. These spiritual signposts are all around us and within, waiting to be interpreted. Let HUNAB KU be your guide. A richly illustrated book that draws on cross-cultural ancient symbols, numerology, archetypes, and earthworks, and the chakras. Includes 77 vivid full-color illustrations placed within the framework and palette of the seven chakras. Builds on the growing popularity of José Arguelles’s The Mayan Factor and Carl Johan Calleman’s The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness.

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353

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Crossing Press

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0307785874

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9780307785879

The Green Devotional

Active Prayers for a Healthy Planet

By: Karen Speerstra

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The Green Devotional

Active Prayers for a Healthy Planet

By: Karen Speerstra

Secular and sacred, ancient and new, words for contemplation—and inspiration to act in defense of the earth. Our planet, our home, is in crisis, plain and simple—and this collection of quotes, poems, essays, and prayers will inspire all to actively reverse the man-made causes of global warming, stem the tide of environmental destruction, and reconnect to the good earth. Short essays of topical interest introduce each of the eight sections of this book, and the 250 voices inside, most of them contemporary, began to harmonize together as they seem to call out for their own canonical structure — one bounded by the ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water. This collection of voices is like a “green book of devotional hours,” reminiscent of the Books of Hours medieval people used to hold in their palms. And like that medieval book, The Green Devotional reminds us that we are connected to something broader and wiser than ourselves. Including selections from Rachel Carson, Cornel West, Bill McKibben, Alice Walker, Sue Monk Kidd, Dean Koontz, Barbara Kingsolver, Daniel Pinchbeck, Arundhati Roy, and many others, The Green Devotional ends with a section of “Closing Prayers” that prepare us not just to go to sleep, but to rest up for another day of passionate action.

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Mango Media

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1609250966

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9781609250966

The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition

Living Well to Life's End

By: Karen Speerstra,Herbert Anderson

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Living Well to Life's End

By: Karen Speerstra,Herbert Anderson

The Divine Art of Dying explores the time when individuals facing a life-limiting illness make critical decisions about how they will live until they die. Authors Karen Speerstra and Herbert Anderson teamed up to write this book shortly before Speerstra's death. Their hope was that this book would be a gift to help people who are irreversibly ill (and their friends and family) navigate the perilous journey to the point at which one decides to discontinue curative treatment and turn toward death. The book includes reflections from Speerstra's hospice journal and essays written jointly by Speerstra and Anderson on themes that include learning to wait, letting go, giving gifts, and telling stories. Karen's experiential and moving reflections are woven together with Anderson's pastoral insights gleaned from years of teaching, writing, and lecturing on death, dying, and bereavement, as well as practicing hospital chaplaincy and pastoral care. Together they have created a deeply profound and practical book that aims to empower people who are dying to live as fully as they can until life's end, and to help those who care for them to share this journey with compassion and hope. Several reflections by Speerstra's friends and family are included along with sidebars describing "divine-human virtues." Suggestions for caregivers are provided at the end of each chapter.

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240

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Fortress Press

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1506478883

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Questions Writers Ask

Wise, Whimsical, and Witty Answers from the Pros

By: Karen Speerstra

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Questions Writers Ask

Wise, Whimsical, and Witty Answers from the Pros

By: Karen Speerstra

For the first time, you'll find quotations about writing organized by and keyed to real questions writers and authors ask.from How do I get started? to Why do writers write, anyway? to What do I do about writer's block to Where do you get your ideas and 16 more. Authors' voices are heard here that appear in no other collection of writing quotes-lots of women, many recent writers-nearly 6,000 quotations. They offer at times whimsical, clever, witty, at times serious, and helpful insights into the writing game collected and organized by someone who has been in this game for three decades-writing, editing, publishing, consulting.Quotes are small gems of wisdom that I wish I had thought of. Some wise, some funny, some profound, but all enlightening. I only wish I had more room on my computer for more of the quotes from Karen Speerstra's clever book, QUESTIONS WRITERS ASK... This is a must-have book for any writer's library. ~Sue Viders, Author of Deal a Story (Card game) and HEROES AND HEROINES.

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320

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Robert Reed Pub

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1934759325

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The Green Devotional

Active Prayers for a Healthy Planet

By: Karen Speerstra

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The Green Devotional

Active Prayers for a Healthy Planet

By: Karen Speerstra

Our planet, our home, is in crisis plain and simple and this collection of quotes, poems, essays, and prayers will inspire all to actively reverse the man-made cause of global warming, stem the tide of environmental destruction, and to reconnect to the good earth. Short essays of topical interest introduce each of the eight sections of this book, and the 250 voices inside, most of them contemporary, began to harmonize together as they seem to call out for their own canonical structure -- one bounded by the ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water. This collection of voices is like a "green book of devotional hours," reminiscent of the Books of Hours medieval people used to hold in their palms. It was called "a cathedral in your hands." And like that medieval book, The Green Devotional reminds us that we are connected to something broader and wiser than ourselves. Included are selections from such people as Rachel Carson, Cornel West, Bill McKibben, Alice Walker, Sue Monk Kidd, Dean Koontz, Barbara Kingsolver, Daniel Pinchbeck, Arundhati Roy and many others. The Green Devotional ends with a section of "Closing Prayers" that prepare us no just to go to sleep but to rest up for another day of passionate action. Printed on 100% recycled paper.

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256

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Conari Press

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1573244597

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9781573244596

Hunab Ku

77 Sacred Symbols for Balancing Body and Spirit

By: Karen Speerstra,Joel Speerstra

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77 Sacred Symbols for Balancing Body and Spirit

By: Karen Speerstra,Joel Speerstra

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Crossing Press

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0307785874

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Our Day to End Poverty

24 Ways You Can Make a Difference

By: Shannon Daley-Harris,Jeffrey Keenan,Karen Speerstra

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Our Day to End Poverty

24 Ways You Can Make a Difference

By: Shannon Daley-Harris,Jeffrey Keenan,Karen Speerstra

Each chapter/hour of the day proposes a variety of fun and practical actions one can take to help overcome domestic and global poverty. The chapters are short and pithy full of specific facts and a menu of alternative action steps. Each chapter connects with your day, from breakfa.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1576754464

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The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition

The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition

Our Day to End Poverty

Our Day to End Poverty

Hunab Ku

Hunab Ku

The Green Devotional

The Green Devotional

The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition

The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition

Questions Writers Ask

Questions Writers Ask

The Green Devotional

The Green Devotional

Hunab Ku

Hunab Ku

Our Day to End Poverty

Our Day to End Poverty

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