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Sun, Moon and Stars: Seasonal Celebrations for children and families, tamariki and whanau by Juliet Batten
$46.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
Juliet Batten guided her family and others for over two years, celebrating eight markers in the seasonal cycle. Her account, together with those of her contributors, results in a book that is inspiring and practical. By following the simple steps she outlines, you too can enjoy creating rituals to enhan ...Show more
Life Prayers From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Blessings and Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Spirit by Elizabeth Roberts
$45.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
The mysteries and delights of life on earth are illuminated in this richly eclectic collection of poetry, wisdom, prayers, and blessings from thinkers, writers around the world. Here you will find the poetry of Hildegard of Bingen and Gary Snyder; the political wisdom of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther ...Show more
Dying: A New Zealand Guide for the Journey by Sue Wood and Peter Fox
$33.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
The book has been written to help anyone who is dying from cancer or other terminal illness. Drawing on years of practical experience as counsellors in the field, Sue Wood and Peter Fox discuss what they and others have found happening in the terminal stages of illness - what the dying person can expect ...Show more
For Small Creatures Such as We: Ritual.. by Sasha Sagan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
For Small Creatures Such as We hunts for the meaning behind our most common, beloved celebrations and envisions how we can grow these roots into new and fulfilling secular rituals. From the daughter of celebrated scientist, Carl Sagan, this is a luminous and moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughte ...Show more
From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives by Robert Fulghum
$27.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
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 reaffir ...Show more
Celebrating the Southern Seasons: Rituals for Aotearoa by Juliet Batten
$49.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
Updated and expanded, the 10th anniversary edition of this pioneering work is even more valuable as a resource book than its predecessor. Exploring the natural world, astronomy and ancient civilisations, it shows how we can use tradition, intuition and ingenuity to adapt existing ceremonies and create o ...Show more
Last Words: Approaches to Death in NZ's Cultures & Faiths by Margot Schwass
$35.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
Death is part of all our lives - the deaths of people we love, the experience of terminal illness, the grief of friends or family. Yet we tend to speak of it with difficulty. And we know little about death in other cultures - what rituals are sustaining, what might cause distress, or what is appropriate ...Show more
Rituals for Life, Love, and Loss by Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Sydney Barbara Metrick
$43.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
From the joy of naming a child or blessing a home to the sadness of ending a marriage or the dignity of a simple funeral, here are the words and settings needed to value and commemorate life s transitions and milestones. "Rituals for Life, Love, and Loss" provides rituals and meditations for today's wor ...Show more
Funeral Poems - Death, Grief and Loss Poetry by Michael Ashby
$37.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants | Series: Inspirational Poetry Book 1 Ser.
Celebration Of Life contains 137 poems including Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Dickinson, Browning, Rossetti, Brooke as well as Michael Ashby's own more modern, global poems. Michael Ashby's work includes: "I AM NOT GONE," "MY MUM," "GRANDPA'S LOST HIS GR," "BINGO," " ...Show more
The Big Day: A Guide to Getting Married in New Zealand by Kerril Cooper & Denise Irvine
$33.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
The Big Day covers every aspect of arranging a wedding - from the simplest ceremony through to a lavish affair featuring a cast of many hundreds. Key to this book is information about what a couple must do to comply with the law in New Zealand and the range of options for choosing a celebrant, the venu ...Show more
Ceremonies & Celebrations: Vows, Tributes and Readings by Dally Messenger
$30.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies/Celebrants
The authoritative handbook for anyone planning any personal ceremony or celebration. Ceremonies & Celebrations gives details of how to organise a celebration or ceremony, with example ceremonies, a wealth of suggested readings and music, together with checklists and advice on how to write and struct ...Show more
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
$25.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more