The Little Things To Help Get
You Through The Big Things
WORD PIE
Praise for Ellen Bass's
The Human Line
“Ellen Bass’s frighteningly personal poems about sex, love, birth, motherhood, and aging are kept from mere confession by the graces of wit, an observant eye, an empathetic heart, and just the right image deployed at just the right time. The Human Line is full of real stunners.” —Billy Collins
"Ever since her first book, I have admired the tough, urgent, and wildly human poems of Ellen Bass. The Human Line deepens my regard for her necessary and indelible voice." --Thomas Lux
"There are some lovely poems in The Human Line, poems that live up to the splendid title, with all that it implies of our continuity in grief and joy. There are poems that cut deep into our sense of self and of primal relationships."--Carolyn Kizer
Ellen Bass is such a trustworthy guide -- awake to the certainty of death, to the irreconcilable losses, and to the daily imperfect reprieve of love. These are poems of quiet joy and true comfort.
I read the book to the end, and then started, from the beginning, again." --Marie Howe
Poetry & Prose for Positive Living
Comfort Pie's Top 10 Nourishing Books
When You Need A Lift by Joy Behar
From the Publisher
Life is full of ups and downs. And while keeping your chin up may hide a double chin, it won’t improve your mood. Looking on the bright side will make you squint, which will lead to crow’s feet, and there is nothing cheerful about crow’s feet.
Listen, if you’re feeling down, it’s going to take a lot more to set things right than insipid platitudes about a cloud with a silver lining. (What is that anyway? Acid rain, or what?) In When You Need a Lift, comedienne Joy Behar and a host of her friends share the simple, silly, profound, and personal things they turn to for comfort when life gets hard.
For Joy, it’s her sense of humor and handbags. Not surprisingly, music legend Burt Bacharach turns to songwriting and performing. Kaye Ballard indulges with a big bowl of pasta. Beau Bridges counts his blessings. Former First Lady Barbara Bush finds solace in the work of Jane Austen. Tony Danza plays the ukulele. Larry King recommends laughter—tell a joke, read a funny book; every time you laugh, a little sadness slips away. And that’s some advice you can actually use.
At Blackwater Pond
By Mary Oliver
If you ever need to be reminded of
the person you aspire to be, listen
to Mary Oliver reading 40 of her
astonishingly beautiful poems...
- AT BLACKWATER POND.
Mary Oliver is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Her poetry books include Blue Iris (Beacon / 6882-9 / $22.00 hc); House of Light (Beacon / 6811-X / $13.00 pb); New and Selected Poems, Volume One (Beacon / 6877-2 / $16.00 pb); and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (Beacon / 6886-1 / $24.95 hc). She has also published five books of prose, including Rules for the Dance and, most recently, Long Life. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
“…at 71 she is, far and away, this country’s best selling poet. According to the list on poetryfoundation.org, the top fifteen bestselling poetry volumes in America as of mid-January include no fewer than five Mary Oliver titles, all published by Beacon Press of Boston.”
- Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review February 18,2007
Mary Oliver named as one of seven wonders in Massachusetts:
“Mary Oliver. In a region that has produced most of the nation's poet laureates, it is risky to single out one fragile 71-year-old bard of Provincetown. But Mary Oliver, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1983, is my choice for her joyous, accessible, intimate observations of the natural world. Her Wild Geese has become so popular it now graces posters in dorm rooms across the land. But don't hold that against her. Read almost anything in New and Selected Poems. She teaches us the profound act of paying attention—a living wonder that makes it possible to appreciate all the others.”
- Renée Loth, Boston Globe, September 2, 2007
When David Servan- Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, it changed his life. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness, the little known workings of the body's natural cancer-fighting capacities, and his own will to live, Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-year journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration, and finally to health. Combining memoir with a clear explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them, and describing both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer, Anticancer is revolutionary in its clarity. It is a moving story of a doctor's inner and outer search for healing; radical in its discussion of the environment, lifestyle, and trauma; and inspiring and cautionary in its certainty that cancer cells lie dormant in all of us-and we all must care for the "terrain" in which they exist.
Anticancer takes us on a serious journey and, ultimately, an empowering one. In the tradition of Michael Pollan, John Kabat- Zinn, Barbara Kingsolver, and Andrew Weil, Anticancer genuinely guides us to "a new way of life." - from Barnes & Noble
Poet, Mary Oliver & Percy
Only Breath includes the poetry of Rumi, Neruda, Rilke, Tsvetaeva, Walcott, and Rosen in dialogue with the lush musical innovations of Jami Sieber that span the spectrum from the depths of stillness to irresistible rhythms.
The inspired musicians who grace this recording with Jami and Kim are: Ulali, Steve Gorn, Julie Wolf, Kai Eckhardt, Michaelle Goerlitz, Erika Luckett, Rhiannon, David Worm, Susu Pampanin, and Eben Eldridge.
"Kim's gift of speaking poetry is a gorgeous incantation, an irresistible call to break open."
- Eve Ensler
author of The Vagina Monologues
"Jami Sieber plays music on electric and acoustic cello with a passion that translates into soul-baring poetry." --Conscious Choice Magazine
Only Breath is a revolutionary meeting between music and poetry that merges poems from around the world with compositions that flow from the depths of stillness to wild world-beat rhythms.
Only Breath is an invitation to rediscover what mystics, poets and shamans have known for centuries: when you join powerful rhythms with the language of the heart, the mind bursts open to an unsayable “Ahhh!” of pure revelation. - from Only Breathe My Space Page
At Blackwater Pond
Mary Oliver (audiobook)
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
AntiCancer:
A New Way of Life
David Servan-Schreiber
. A Three Dog Night
Abigail Thomas
Watch video of Dr. David Servan-Schreiber
Dr. David Servan-Schreiber
Fran Drescher's
Cancer Schmancer Movement
Empower yourself and still laugh along the way!
Fran wrote this New York Times Bestseller about her own journey through cancer, but she didn't stop there. It's a movement!
Check out The Cancer Schmancer Movement!
From the Publisher:
Part inspirational cancer-survival story, part memoir-as-laugh-riot,
Cancer Schmancer picks up where Fran's last book, Enter Whining, left off.
After the publication of that book, Fran's life launched into a downward spiral. She separated from a long and complicated relationship, her TV series started to slip in the ratings, and her beloved dog Chester Drescher's health was in major decline. Then came the mysterious symptoms no doctor could adequately explain. With her trademark humor, Fran tells of her indefatigable search for answers and the cancer diagnosis that she ultimately beat. But not before a gold mine of humorous insights were revealed to her about what really matters most in life.
Entertainment Weekly
...the actress infuses her writing with humor and honesty...
People Magazine
Laughs-and inspiration...Drescher writes with unforced humor and plenty of gusto. She informs, comforts and movingly entertains.
Vanity Fair
...irrepressible Fran Drescher's frank and sassy account of coping with the big C.
Anticancer: A New Way of Life
A radical synthesis of science and personal experience that advocates
a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer
by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD
