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The Faithful Gardener
The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die | Clarissa Pin Estes
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Clarissa Pinkola Ests, Ph.D., the internationally known poet, psychoanalyst, and author of the seminal classic Women Who Run With The Wolves (99 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, translated into eighteen languages, and a bestseller worldwide), touches our lives anew, rendering in the strong and lyrical voice for which she has become known a powerful series of her signature healing stories. These elegantly interlocked tales of loss, survival, and fierce rebirth center around Dr. Estes's uncle, a war-ravaged Hungarian peasant farmer and refugee, a faithful gardener, and a storehouse of stories who was one of the "dancing fools, wise old crows, grumpy sages, and 'almost saints' who made up the old people" in Ests's childhood. Told with graceful simplicity, deep feeling, generous humor, and profound optimism, The Faithful Gardener is, at its captivating core, the story of an open-hearted child who listened well to her old-country elders and who grew up to remember, to bear witness, and, as one of the premier storytellers of our times, to remind readers and listeners of all ages of "that magisterial life force within all things that strengthens us in times of turmoil or transition, that faithful force which can never die."
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Linsy
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I love this beautiful little book. Rereading it was a treat!

And just in time. As the fifth book I've finished so far this year, it completes my #JumpStart2020 goal. 💚

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abookishbutterfly
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They say we shouldn‘t judge a book by its cover but the cover on this book is what compelled me to get it! I found it at a fill-a-bag library sale and from what I understand, it‘s supposed to be beautiful and inspirational. Has anyone read it?

#garden #letsflyjuly @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 I haven‘t read it but that is a great cover! 🌼💚 5y
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JMEdwards
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Small Book Haul. At least no guilt when you find them at the thrift store🤗

wordzie ❤😍😍 5y
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LiterRohde
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“When war is ‘over,‘ it is never simply ‘over.‘ The first war takes place during wartime. The second war, the far longer one, occurs when the fighting stops; this war is not over for years, most often for generations to come.”

#TimbitTunes | 22: #MonsterHospital

📷: Made with Typorama

Chrissyreadit Truth. 5y
Cinfhen Exactly what @Chrissyreadit said 💔 5y
Pricel101 💔the quote made me think of 5y
LiterRohde @Pricel101 Looks like a good book. 5y
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Linsy
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“There is no worthless thing. Everything can be used for something. In God‘s garden, there‘s a usefulness for everyone and everything.”

One of my favorites! 🦋

#nativeandindigenousreads #riotgrams

Lcsmcat Love the cover! 6y
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Linsy
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Pickpick

I was blown away by this beautiful little book. I know I‘ll return to this parable of loss and love and life again and again. #faithful #coolbooks #bookreview

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I-read-and-eat
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Some new loose leaf tea with amazingly bad/funny names. ('Thee' is the Dutch word for tea and pronouned like 'thay' .) And I got this book at a thrift store. I have no clue if it's any good but the cover is lovely 😀 Anyone knows this book or the writer?

Nat_Reads Great pic! And I love novel-tea (ha!!!!!) 7y
Kalalalatja Love the names! 😂 7y
I-read-and-eat @Nat_Reads @Kalalalatja I love it when other people have the same awfull sense of humour 😂 7y
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