Sorrow And Solace

Author : Philip Bachelor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sorrow & Solace written by Philip Bachelor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sorrow and Solace' focuses on the importance of cemetaries in the lives of everyday mourners, & ways in which our bereaved give meaning to & draw value from their commemorative activities.

Author : Bô Yin Râ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915034055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book on Solace written by Bô Yin Râ and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the experience of grief, bereavement, and despair from the perspective of our timeless life. While not denying the reality of suffering and anguish in the sphere of mortal life, the book explains why grief and sorrow have no basis for existence in the dimension of the Spirit's light

Author : Philip Bachelor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351841688
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sorrow and Solace written by Philip Bachelor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities. The death of someone dear to us is among the most momentous life event that we experience. In many societies, visiting the grave or memorial is a common behavioural response to bereavement. Memorial sites provide vital connections to our deceased loved ones with whom we wish to maintain ongoing social bonds, and cemeteries are crucial places of deep healing and growth. Millions of visits are made to cemeteries every day, but the extent of this activity and its value to those who mourn - the topics of this volume - have long remained largely unrecognised. Large urban memorial parks are hives of activity for recently bereaved persons, and are among the most visited places in Western communities. Some cemeteries, hosting millions of annual visits, are more popular than many major tourist attractions. Cemetery visitation is a high-participatory, value-laden, expressive activity, and a most significant observable behaviour of the recently bereaved. This work will be invaluable to those seeking a scholarly understanding of bereavement, mourning, and commemoration. Written principally for professionals with a tertiary educational interest in related fields, such as grief educators, nurses, palliative carers, and social workers, it is also an important resource for the further education of other carers and service providers, including psychologists, physicians, counsellors, clergy, funeral directors, cemetery administrators, and monumental masons. The book is also a significant contribution to the field of social anthropology.

Author : Esther Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Sorrow, Solace, and Spirituality written by Esther Adler and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved Jewish educator Esther Adler, brings a poet's eye to nearly a century of Jewish life, spanning her youth in Nazi Germany, her young adulthood in British Mandate Palestine, and her many decades in the United States. With a clear and unfailing voice, she commits herself to bear witness both to the destruction of European Jewry and to its rebirth in the 21st century. Her poems are a call to conscience, a call to inner peace, and a call to joy. Through the lens of Jewish learning, she invites readers to share in the sources that inspire her resilience. Reviews: "In Esther Adler's vivid poems, memories of loss, exile, and dislocation are transformed into injunctions to remember and transcend. Collected on the occasion of the poet's 97th birthday, the reader learns details of a long life well lived and discovers the consolations that come from work and love for Israel, family, Judaism, languages, and words. Full with allusions to Jewish texts and practices, the poems acknowledge every form of grief only to soar into affirmations of life, "sounds of solitary sorrow succumb to ... Sounds of serenity and succor." The reader, like every person whose life has been touched by Esther Adler's indomitable spirit or charmed by the spell of her storytelling, will feel grateful for her influence." Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University About the author: Born in Breslau, Germany, now Wrocław, Poland, Adler grew up in an orthodox family. She attended Jewish Day school and studied modern Hebrew after school at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. After witnessing Kristallnacht, she left her family for Palestine as part of Youth Aliyah in 1938, then rejoined her family in the United States in 1947. Her autobiographical novel, Best Friends: A Bond that Survived Hitler, is available in both English and German language editions. This is her second volume of poetry.

Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504042883
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solace of Open Spaces written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

Author : Siobhan Dowd
Publisher : David Fickling Books
ISBN 13 : 0375893652
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solace of the Road written by Siobhan Dowd and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her. Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. She’s older, more confident—the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland, and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head-on. So begins a bittersweet and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self and unlocking the secrets of her past.

Author : Kathleen Dean Moore
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780834823181
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Comfort written by Kathleen Dean Moore and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain. This book is the record of her experiences. It’s a stunning collection of carefully observed accounts of her life—tracking otters on the beach, cooking breakfast in the desert, canoeing in a snow squall, wading among migrating salmon in the dark—but it is also a profound meditation on the healing power of nature. To learn more about the author, visit her website at www.riverwalking.com.

Author : Belinda McKeon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145161425X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solace written by Belinda McKeon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belinda McKeon’s Solace is an extraordinarily accomplished first novel—a story of a father and son thrown together by tragedy; one clinging to the old country and one plunging into the new. Set in an Ireland that catapulted into wealth at the end of the twentieth century and then suffered a swift economic decline, this is a novel about the conflicting values of the old and young generations and the stubborn, heartbreaking habits that mute the language of love. Tom and Mark Casey are a father and son on a collision course, two men who have always struggled to be at ease with each other. Tom is a farmer in the Irish midlands, the descendant of men who have farmed the same land for generations. Mark, his only son, is a doctoral student in Dublin, writing his dissertation on the nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth, who spent her life on her family’s estate, not far from the Casey farm. To his father, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark’s academic pursuit is not man’s work at all, the occupation of a schoolboy. Mark’s mother negotiates a fragile peace. Then, at a party in Dublin, Mark meets Joanne Lynch, a lawyer in training whom he finds irresistible. She also happens to be the daughter of a man who once spectacularly wronged Mark’s father, and whose betrayal Tom has remembered every single day for twenty years. After the lightning strike of devastating loss, Tom and Mark are left with grief neither can share or fully acknowledge. Not even the magnitude of their mutual loss can alter the habit of silence. Solace is a beautiful and moving novel by one of the most exciting new writers to emerge from Ireland.

Author : Ashleigh Slater
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802496253
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Braving Sorrow Together written by Ashleigh Slater and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Little did I know at the time that I’d one day look back and remember it as the beginning of what I call our ‘weeping years.’” — Ashleigh Slater We all have “weeping years,” seasons where the trials seem to come one after another. For Ashleigh and her husband, their weeping years included miscarriage, multiple job losses, feelings of betrayal, panic attacks, anti-depressants, cross-country moves, and even suicidal thoughts. Loss is a constant of life, but the intensity of those years changed Ashleigh, altering how she understood and responded to grief. This book tells her story. Braving Sorrow Together: The Transformative Power of Faith and Community When Life is Hard explores loss and trial in a conversational, storytelling manner. It gently encourages those experiencing grief of any kind to seek comfort in God and in the “me too” of community. Ashleigh gives an honest and vulnerable account of her personal stories of loss, as well as those of her friends, with reflections from literature and Scripture sprinkled throughout. She examines the nature of grief and loss in several universal arenas, such as relationships, health, career, and the home. Anyone who ever struggles (and that’s all of us) will be able to move through trial with more wisdom, releasing anxiety and receiving the help and comfort God so bountifully provides. Readers of Braving Sorrow Together will be encouraged that they are not alone, inspired to reach out to close friends, and reminded that God—the Author of all of our stories— can be trusted through the tears. Includes an appendix with further reflections on leaning into community in difficult seasons.

Author : Haven Kimmel
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385507305
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solace of Leaving Early written by Haven Kimmel and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult—if not impossible—people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston’s childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other. Deftly walking the tightrope between tragedy and comedy, The Solace of Leaving Early is a joyous story about finding one’s better self through accepting the shortcomings of others.