Viva! Bookstore at Viva Galleria

A new book by Mary Earle is always an exciting event for us.  In this book Mary focuses on the various parts of the body, the organs and joints that comprise our physicality, and relates for each an anedcote from her own life while giving thanks for each with prayers as well as giving the reader physical and  spiritual meditaition exercises to deepend our appreciation for our bodies.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams will likely be on my bedside table for a good long while.  Terry writes this book at the age of 54, the age her mother was when she died.  Her mother gave Terry her journals a week before her death, with instructions not to look at them until after her death.  When Terry does open them, one by one, they are all blank.  Out of this has come this stunning, thought provoking series of short chapters that reflect on her mother’s haunting gesture.  The book is a kaleidoscope that turns over and over the question, “What does it mean to have a voice?”  The book is brilliant, full of wisdom, surprise, and wonder.  Read this beautiful book on voice.  You won’t be disappointed.