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A Christmas story consisting of several small parables which fit one inside another and deal with the theme of eternal life. A young fir tree looks forward to becoming a Christmas tree in someone's house, but doesn't realize that on the twelfth day of Christmas he'll be chopped up and burned.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Written by a cantadora (keeper of the old stories) this little book is bursting with imagery which is elegantly interlocked with loss, survival and rebirth. Centered around a war ravaged Hungarian Uncle " a wise old crow, and 'almost saint' who made up the old people" in the author's childhood. The stories are told with wonderful simplicity reminicent of the fairy stories of long ago, full of deep feeling, humour and always a profound optimism, captivating in its honesty. A book to treasure and to pass on to our children to remind them of the "magisterial life force within all things".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A set of tales that offer the listener tools to "nourish, repair and strengthen the soul" no matter what it has had to endure. These tales show that no matter what a person has encountered the road of bitterness and hatred must never be taken. Dr E's stories show us that even when we are surrounded by darkness the spirit always survives no matter what we have had to endure and it can be always transormed into something new and beautiful.
I loved hearing about her beloved uncle, What a wonderful and beautiful soul. This is one of my favourite audio books of Dr E's and as usual I would recommend it to all that follow her teachings.
I loved hearing about her beloved uncle, What a wonderful and beautiful soul. This is one of my favourite audio books of Dr E's and as usual I would recommend it to all that follow her teachings.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Good things have roots in fallow ground....
13 Jan 2001
Format:Hardcover
The stories are like layers of an onion where each depends on the one before it to exist. The horrors of war are only hinted at by the author's uncle but the reader easily draws parallels between the transitions in life with a fallow field, a fir tree covered with decorations and the emergence of new life and promise from a piece of fallow ground. The book is easily read in an hour and I blinked away tears as I finished. Since the first reading, my front lawn has been returning to Nature, just as the author's did, and every season of watching new life emerge reminds me of the story and that good things are always beginning.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
An inspiring story about storytelling and human nature.
14 Feb 1999
Format:Hardcover
This book was recomended to me at a time when I needed and recieved much healing. In a delightful and enchanting fashion it tells the story of a little girl whos long lost relative comes to be with her. The girls roots are from a place where storytelling is an intricate part of their culture. The actual tale is one of extraordinary inspiration, of philisophical and spiritual healing by revealing paralells to natures course. I will be forever comforted, moved and changed by reading and re-reading this little gem.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Loved it!
21 April 2003
Format:Hardcover
I listened to the tape and read the book. If you want to know the true nature of survival - especially in times like these - this is the book for you. Full of hope and evidence of the ability of humans to survive, thrive and love - no matter what. I was sorry the book was over. I am every time I read it.
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