The Call Of Mother Earth

An uplifting prose poem stirring compassion for our Mother Earth and how humanity can restore her to abundant health by cherishing her. Like Gibran's The Prophet, this poetry inspires.

An uplifting prose poem stirring compassion for our Mother Earth and how humanity can restore her to abundant health by cherishing her. Like Gibran's "The Prophet, " this poetry inspires.

With the help of her beloved grandmother, Tess learns some valuable lessons about plants and discover the wonders and joys of nature.

This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (host of the Animal Planet’s TV show Monsters Inside Me) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our tour guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating fauna and flora into vivid focus. Through his adventures—which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root in his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.

?The Call of Mother Earth by Clare S. Rosenfield is a myth for our time.?Pir Zia Inayat, President of the Sufi Order International, Editor of A Pearl in Wine: Essays on the Life Music, and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan ?A rhapsody of call and response, a choir of voices answering the call sounded by Mother Earth, a restorative path that maps a route to activate the forces of light over darkness, The Call of Mother Earth celebrates our collective power towards the surcease of human suffering. It is one person?s fervent dedication to all we are and all we can be.? Sarfaras Susan Dawdy, MSW, LCSW, clinician, family therapist and program director for the McInery Parent Center within Berkshire County, Sufi Order Center leader at the Abode of the Messag, New Lebanon, N.Y. ?This is an inspired work ? in the tradition of William Blake.?Sondra Zeldenstein, author of A Detail In That Story, publisher of Chicory Blue Press ?A beautifully written mythic journey that teaches us to fill the spaces of our lives with love.?Judith Orreck Katz, author/artist of A Painter?s Guide to the Catskills of Rip Van Winkle: *The Magic Places ?This beautiful book, coming so appropriately in our time, is the is the feminine voice of a prophet in the tradition of Kahlil Gibran.?Rabina Longworth, interfaith minister

Your Mother Called (Mother Earth) . . . You’d Better Call Her Back! carries Gina Murphy-Darling’s passionate message of respect for Mother Earth. Taking on her radio show personality of Mrs. Green, Murphy-Darling identifies many of the incredible environmental challenges we face as a human race and offers one woman's solutions on how we can begin to live intentionally to help preserve the very planet that gives us life. From listing the dangers of fracking and the harmful chemicals in our food and our cleaning products to giving tips on a greener way to entertain, Mrs. Green will motivate you to wake up and smell the roses while there are still roses to smell. Filled with anecdotes, humor, and some fairly bold statements, Your Mother Called may make you laugh or cry, but most importantly, it will inspire you to change some harmful habits and encourage you to influence others. Read it, enjoy it, and share the message so that we can all become intentional, committed members of a global community who care about the planet we share.

In the ’60s it was called the "back to the land" movement, and in Helen and Scott Nearings’ day, it was "living the good life." Whatever the term, North Americans have always yearned for a simpler way. But how do you accomplish that today? Blending inspiration with practical how-to’s, Rural Renaissance captures the American dream of country living for contemporary times. Journey with the authors and experience their lessons, laughter and love for the land as they trade the urban concrete maze for a five-acre organic farm and bed and breakfast in southwestern Wisconsin. Rural living today is a lot more than farming. It’s about a creative, nature-based and more self-sufficient lifestyle that combines a love of squash, solar energy, skinny-dipping and serendipity . . . The many topics explored in Rural Renaissance include: "right livelihood" and the good life organic gardening and permaculture renewable energy and energy conservation wholesome organic food, safe water and a natural home simplicity, frugality and freedom green design and recycled materials community, friends and raising a family independence and interdependence wildlife conservation and land stewardship. An authentic tale of a couple whose pioneering spirit and connection to the land reaches out to both the local and global community to make their dream come true, Rural Renaissance will appeal to a wide range of Cultural Creatives, free agents, conservation entrepreneurs and both arm-chair and real-life homesteaders regardless of where they live. Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko are innkeepers, organic growers, copartners in a marketing consulting company, and have previously published books. John is also a photographer. Former advertising agency fast-trackers, they are nationally recognized for their contemporary approach to homesteading, conservation and more sustainable living. They share their farm with their son, two llamas, and a flock of free-range chickens. Rural Renaissance also offers a foreword by Bill McKibben.

A loving tribute to Mother Earth and a call to action for children, their parents and grandparents.