Celebrations circle around!
Blessings to heap upon your house by what you choose to put into your holiday wreath. On precisely this day (12/9/98) precisely one year ago, I launched my very first article for Suite 101. It was incredibly exciting to see it come up on the ... [... more]
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Galen Rowell
As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a bright shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of "California The Beautiful" is both a portrait of the diverse natural beauty of the [... more]
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Elizabeth Schmidt
New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving ... [... more]
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V1 A Copeland Celebration: Fam
 A Unique Opportunity to hear it from Coplands mind: Aaron Copland can be and should be considered the father of American concert music. He decisively created a style of music that needed to be made as we were reaching maturity as a country. This [... more]
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In Celebration of Israel
From Amazon.com: This record celebrates not only Israel but six excellent 20th-century Jewish composers - all émigrés except the American-born Scharf - whose work should be better known: the music is skillfully composed, varied, constantly [... more]
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Grand Canyon Celebration
From Amazon.com: Grand Canyon Celebration is a stunning, deeply personal, and profound account of a true, contemporary father-son coming-of-age ritual in the Grand Canyon. When Michael Quinn Patton's son Brandon turned 18, the two of them joined a [... more]
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The Ultimate Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebration Book: A Guide ...
Wish I had read this before the Bar Mitzvah!: Having just finished the ordeal of another Bar Mitzvah, I couldn't help but pick this book up to take a look. Boy, do I wish someone had told me to buy the book before the Bar MItzvah. After this last nerve- [... more]
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The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for ...
Wonderfully practical, but flaws in its theology: Thank God for converts to the faith - they bring a fresh energy and perspective to our ancient Catholic tradition. Meredith Gould is one such person, a convert from Judaism, who took a look at the how the [... more]
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Petals and poetry: a summer celebration
Six months ago, when I first began writing for Suite101.com, it was the middle of winter here in New Zealand. I remember sitting at my computer, wondering what on earth I could say when so little was in bloom outdoors. I was forced to wrap up ... [... more]
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Circular Celebrations
The making of a St. Barbara's Day wreath and the passing of Adelma Simmons The making of a St. Barbara's Day wreath and the passing of Adelma Simmons. They have crowned our heads, welcomed our guests and hung silently on our graves. Eternal ... [... more]
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An Analogy: Butterflies and Easter
An analogy of the three stages of the butterfly's life and the Christian celebration of Easter. Read about some of the interesting myths, symbolisms, and legends that have evolved over the centuries about butterflies! I have always equated the ... [... more]
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Hellebore: The Christmas Rose
Black hellebore, also known as the Christmas Rose, seems a strange plant to associate with the happy and hopeful celebration of Christ's birth. It is, after all, one of the four classic poisons--along with nightshade, hemlock, and aconite. ... [... more]
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