 |
||||||||||||||||||||
  The Blessing Books are a series of 8" x 11" books, beautifully written and illustrated with vintage magazine covers, posters, book illustrations and advertisements from around the world and across time. Perfect as gifts or coffee table books.Each book is $19.95 unless marked otherwise.
A Book for My Daughter Words by Pamela Winterbourne, Images by Welleran Poltarnees A Cat Blessing by Welleran Poltarnees A Dog Blessing by Welleran Poltarnees A Garden Blessing by Welleran Poltarnees Grieve Not
An Irish Blessing for the Home |
|
A Blessing of Healing and Strength A Blessing of Peace by Welleran Poltarnees This is My Wish for You The following books are all 7 1/2" x 8 1/2" and retail for $16.95
Magicians & Enchanters Breathing on Your Own Dogs Tell their Own Stories |
||||||||||||||||||
Anniversary Blessing
Baby Blessing - Available only in the Small Size 6.5" x 4.5" $8.95
We believe that this book captures the hopes of every mother for every daughter. All women are daughters and many are mothers. Despite the myriad differences of personality and culture motherly feelings are similar because they grow out of essential humanity. We think mothers will find that this volume gives voice to their deepest hopes for their daughters. The author offers advice on achieving one's aspirations with grace and subtlety. The lovely images reinforce the loving words. "Always know that I love you, and am grateful for your presence in my life."
Cats have lived among us as friends for at least 8000 years. At first the relationship was one of mutual service: the cat exchanging rodent control for a warm place to sleep. The interdependence has grown deeper and subtler with the passage if time. In this volume, Welleran Poltarnees speaks of the traits he values in cats, among which are: grace, dignity, self-reliance, creative playfulness and mystery.
to crouch by our fire, cats were wild beasts searching out their own prey, and horses still ran at the first sniff of our approach. Welleran Poltarnees has a lifelong love for dogs, and here in this book he distills his love for them into words. He praises them for their unwavering love, their ready sympathy, their fresh delight in simple pleasures, and their sometimes unconscious humor. He has made each statement more resonant by the addition of pictures, frequently from obscure sources.
you and your garden, enumeration the many virtues of gardens that we are vividly aware of their place in our lives and grateful for their existence." The text emphasizes the many profound satisfactions that gardens offer to those who make and inhabit them. The profusion of illustrations, poetic reflections and the felicitous design make this book a suitable tribute to the gardens it celebrates.
left by a British soldier killed by an IRA landmine in 1989. It is apparently his adaptation of a poem written by Mary Frye in 1932. It is spoken from beyond the grave, and offers an extended consolation based on the idea that the dead have continuous life in nature's various manifestations - the wind, rain, snow, stars, and so on. Blue Lantern Studio displays their accustomed skill at finding unfamiliar images which bring deeper life to the text.
House Blessing
nineteenth century collection of Irish fold blessings that they blessed almost every aspect of life - no matter how small or ordinary. This anonymous blessing, which hung on the walls of myriad Irish homes during the last century, succinctly blesses many aspects of home life. Welleran Poltarnees, himself a mighty blesser, has given each thought added power through his choice of pictures. "God bless the corners of this house ... Bless each shining window-pane that lets the sunshine in."
reinforced by the addition of suitable imagery. In this volume he blesses those who are ill and reflects on attitudes that promote healing. He points out the pleasures that even the confined can enjoy, and stresses the generosity of creation. Mr. Poltarnees recently had to spend four months in bed and wrote this blessing out of that experience. For him these are not abstract consolations, but experience tested methods of keeping one's spirits and cooperating with one's body. Some blessings he bestows include laughter, blossoming springtime, good times, flowers and animals, to name a few. "May you be deeply aware that you are more than your illness, and remember rainbows."
This book is intended to bring a small portion of peace into the life of anyone who turns its pages. Mr. Poltarnees assembles thoughts and images to evoke this increasingly rare and blessed state. He reminds us of sun-filled trees, drifting clouds, fresh mornings, gardens, flowers, snow, moonlight - all with the intention of helping us slow down and savor simple, life giving things.
Mermaids
one is a compact introduction to complex and intriguing aspects of reality. Here, Elizabeth Ratisseau presents magicians from legend and story. Magicians cause change through their supernatural powers. They occur in all cultures, and apparently even in pre-historic cultures. Some famous magicians are Paracelsus, Merlin, Éliphas Lévi, and the Comte de Saint Germain. The illustrations in this volume are drawn largely from old storybooks for children, who like the rest of us, are fascinated by magic. 
collection of familiar and oft quoted words, but rather an original and deeply personal assemblage. Some of the unusual categories are: Ambiguity, Confusion, Detachment, In-Between, The Innocent Eye, Invisibility, Locks and Keys, Mirrors, Naming, The Third Alternative, and Zero. "Richard Kehl's collection is like a telephone directory in which all the entries are little spurts of wisdom- many of them wonderfully, appropriately contradictory. Let your neurons do the walking." - Tim Robbins.
Most people who own dogs know that they can talk, but few know that they can write. Professional authors, however, frequently discover this latent capacity. Dogs tell their own stories includes some of the best of their narrations, written down by such well-known authors as Peter Mayle, Thomas Carlyle, Don Marquis, P.G. Wodehouse and Rudyard Kipling. Poems are a favorite literary medium for dogs, and many are here, including one by Robert Frost. Many dogs have written (or dictated) autobiographical narratives and this volume contains a selection of them.|
|
||||
 |
||||
|
JULES | ||||
| Harmony Kingdom¨ images copyright © Harmony Ball Company. | ©1998-2012 Jules. | |||