Pacem in Terris
a love story

Drawings and Sculpture by Frederick Franck

Softbound

$18.00

Thirty years ago, Frederick Franck, celebrated artist, sculptor, peace activist, and author of The Zen of Seeing and many other books, bought a property that was being used as a dumping ground near his home in rural New York, and, with his wife, Claske, began to transform it. Originals of his world-renowned sculptures found their home on the grounds, and the ruins of an old mill were transformed into a living, breathing trans-religious sanctuary named Pacem in Terris, or Peace on Earth, dedicated to no one religion, but rather to the humanity that unites us all. Pacem in Terris, “an oasis of sanity, reconnecting self and nature,” has become the meeting place of many wisdom traditions.

In this richly illustrated book, Franck relates the remarkable history of this monumental yet humble undertaking—salvaging an abandoned piece of land and in the process creating a site uniting art and nature, spirit and form. And along the way, he recounts his unusual life story and the people he knew who touched him deeply, including Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Zen master D.T. Suzuki, and Pope John XXIII.

Frederick Franck’s sculpture and artwork are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and other public and private collections. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including the perennial bestseller The Zen of Seeing, and is an editor of What It Means to be Human, just published by St. Martin’s Press. At 91 years of age, he continues to be actively engaged in art, activism, writing and the search for meaning in this world.

Mister God, This Is Anna
A True Story of a Very Special Friendship

Flynn

Softbound

$6.99

This is one of my all-time favorite books - a story that warms your heart as it awakens you to look at the world in a way that allows the spirit to pour through what you see.

Anna was a four year old, neglected and roaming the streets along London's docks during the 1930's. Flynn found her when he was out for a late-night stroll. He took her back to his mother's home, where he discovered that this delightful child could penetrate into the truth of anything she encountered. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask - and answer - life's largest questions, to get to the heart of any matter. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love.

This is a book I return to again and again - it's simply wonderful each and every time.

Bedtime Stories

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.

CD, 1 hour

$15.95

How wonderful! Bedtime stories for grown-ups! Just the thing for those of us who love stories but no longer have anyone who tells them to us.

This is a beautiful CD - an exquisite introduction to how the world of sleep and the world of stories intertwine to help us stay healthy, happy, sane and sound. If you have never heard Clarissa Pinkola Estés tell a story before, you are in for such a joyous discovery. I would call her a 'master storyteller,' except that she is so much more than that. I actually can't find the words to tell you how much warmth, depth and love she brings to each story she tells - and how magical even well-known tales become as she weaves them again for us.

As a child growing up in a family of storytellers, Dr. Estés learned firsthand how a story told at bedtime can soothe away the troubles of the day, and prepare the way for the night's dreams to follow. "Adulthood is only a disguise we wear during the daytime," she teaches. At night, we are all children.

In addition to learning how stories can open an "aperture" into the world of dreams and the meaning of such archetypal figures as Mother Night and the Sandman, you will also be treated to amazing retellings of:

• Sleeping Beauty (this is one that we all can learn from and then use what we learn to share with the children in our lives)
• The Mouse and the Lion
• The Jumping Mouse
• Winken, Blinken and Nod
• and more

You'll love this CD - even if you never have trouble sleeping! And once you hear these stories told so beautifully, I predict that you'll be rounding up the children in your life and treating them to stories yourself. Sweet dreams!!

If you find yourself wanting more after listening to this CD, I highly recommend Clarissa Pinkola Estés' Theatre of the Imagination.

Honey-Bun

Anne Stockton

Hardbound

$14.95

It's hard to know what to say about a book whose every passage evokes tears of both joy and grief. Honey-Bun is as much a Song of Songs to the love that passes between human and animal as it is a Requiem for a lost friend. Anne Stockton has not written just another beautifully written story about a beloved pet (and I love such stories); she has created a work of art - poetic prose, luminous pastel paintings, and a story both unique and universal. This is a very special book - the kind that is treasured and cherished as it is passed among family and friends.

She Would Draw Flowers
A Book of Poems

Kirsten Savitri Bergh

$9.95

She Would Draw Flowers is the legacy of a vibrant, extraordinarily talented young woman whose life came to a sudden close at age 17 in a car accident. I find that I cannot read it without tears coming to my eyes - that someone so filled with enthusiasm and a love of life should have left so soon, so abruptly. However, through those tears, another feeling arises, one of joy and renewed faith that such a gifted person (and these poems and drawings are genuine art, far from the sentimental and contrived) even in so brief a time should have managed to leave us this rare gift. Outstanding.

Choices of Love

Dorothy Maclean

$16.95

I put off posting this book in our Book Shop, not because I didn't like it, but because it touched my heart so deeply that I have had trouble finding the words to convey what lies between its covers. What Dorothy Maclean has poured into Choices of Love is nothing less than a mirror reflecting the burgeoning Love that overflows the Earth and can be seen anywhere one chooses to look for it. She has also shared exercises and attitudes that we can use to develop our capacity to see, hear and feel this Love as she is able to do. My experience of working my way through Choices of Love was multifaceted - I received gift upon gift of beauty, found door after door opening to me, was graced with epiphany upon epiphany, and finally found myself dropping chain after chain, able to embrace and be embraced by the Love which sustains all Creation. May you experience it likewise.

Dorothy Maclean is a cofounder of the Findhorn Community in Scotland and author of To Hear the Angels Sing [available in the Nature section].

Compass of the Heart
Embodying Medicine Wheel Teachings

Loren Cruden

$14.95

Compass of the Heart is Loren Cruden's meditations and insights into Life on Earth, using the four directions, Earth, Sky, and Center of the Medicine Wheel as touchstones. These are some of the most deeply considered, heartfelt, lived, and true expressions of the union of body, soul, and spirit that I have found. To read them is to renew and enliven your relationship to the Earth, the Heavens, and to yourself. A wonderful book to read in small portions, as time allows, and let these beautiful thoughts penetrate slowly and deeply.