From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives - Couverture souple

Fulghum, Robert

 
9780449000953: From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0449000958 ISBN 13 : 9780449000953
Editeur : Ballantine Books, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Fulghum Robert

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Présentation de l'éditeur

FROM BEGINNING TO END
Why "rituals"?
My thinking was set in motion by those who, knowing I was a parish minister for many years, have asked me for advice about ceremonies and celebrations. They wanted words to use at graduations, funerals, and the welcoming of children. They inquired about grace at family meals, the reaffirmation of wedding vows, and ways to heal wounds suffered in personal conflict. People requested help with the rituals of solitude, such as meditation, prayer, and contemplation. . . .
Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The most powerful rites of passage are reflective--when you look back on your life again and again, paying attention to the rivers you have crossed and the gates you have opened and walked on through, the thresholds you have passed over.
I see ritual when people sit together silently by an open fire.
Remembering.
As human beings have remembered for thousands and thousands of years.
FULGHUM

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Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Fulghum is a writer, philosopher, and public speaker, but he has also worked as a cowboy, a folksinger, an IBM salesman, a professional artist, a parish minister, a bartender, a teacher of drawing and painting, and a father. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten has inspired numerous theater pieces that have captivated audiences across the country. Fulghum is also the author of many New York Times bestsellers, including It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, Uh-Oh, and Maybe (Maybe Not), as well as two plays: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas. He has also written two novels: Third Wish and If You Love Me Still, Will You Love Me Moving?

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Éditeur
Ballantine Books
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0449000958
ISBN 13 
9780449000953
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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