Sisters Singing Incantations Blessings Chants Prayers Art and Sacred Stories by Women

SISTERS SINGING

Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Verse

& Sacred Stories past Women

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edited by Carolyn Brigit Flynn

Sisters Singing is a fresh, vibrant, and intimate exploration of contemporary women's spiritual lives.

With verse, prayers and stories from more than 130 writers, as well as cute artwork and a section of original music notated for vox and instruments.

Sisters Singing offers a unique form of intimate connection with the divine that emerges from women of all faiths, a spirituality equally it is lived and experienced by women today, in daily life, human relationships, mothering, meditation and prayer, likewise equally connections with the globe and the ancestors, culminating with prayers for peace and for the world.

Praise for

SISTERS SINGING

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"I plan to keep Sisters Singing in arm's reach for at to the lowest degree the next twelvemonth."

– Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and On the Pulse of Morning

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"This magical volume is a well of blessings.  Sit beside it, let down your bucket.  Open up it anywhere and y'all will hear their voices. Your sisters are singing, praying, murmuring stories, telling us, in a thousand means, what we virtually need to know: that nosotros belong to each other and to the living Earth."

— Joanna Macy , author of World AsLover, World as Self and Widening Circles

Carolyn Brigit Flynn at Sisters Singing Opening Event

Reading of Book's Introduction begins at two:43

"As I read Sisters Singing I felt my soul change. In the midst of so much planetary uncertainty I felt peace welling upward and spreading out. If yous read Sisters Singing, I predict that you too will find yourself flipping back to the biographies every few pages out of gratitude for such full-throated, woman-generated spiritual vision."

  — Brian Swimme, writer of The Universe Story, and The Hidden Heart of the Creation

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"Women take been waiting many generations for this inspired and far-ranging drove to back-trail rituals, ceremonies, and meditations. A book as graceful as it is generous, SistersSinging offers the music of stories, prayers, and poems—a call to sacred community."

            — Brenda Peterson, coeditor, Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Enkindling

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"Sisters Singing is a treasure trove to dip into as office of a forenoon meditation practice, or to give to a loved ane equally function of a greater spiritual conversation. This book is a great gathering of ordinary women living in extraordinary sensation of the beauty and danger of our times."

           —Alison Luterman , writer, The Largest Possible Life and Desire Zoo

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"Praises for Sisters Singing! This cute drove of verse, song and prayer draws deeply from contemporary and ancient female person wisdom. These offerings invite the states to experience the ability of song, poesy and art to open the middle, strengthen our communities and transform ourselves and the world. A profoundly embodied and nature-centered spiritual handbook for use in private prayer and meditation, community celebrations, rituals, ceremonies and gatherings of friends and family.

- Jennifer Berezan , vocaliser-composer, "Praises for the Globe"

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"My review copy has traveled, literally, thousands of miles with me now. The corners are banged up, the spine is scratched, and there are and so many flags and markers you can barely see the edge of the folio. Traveled, worn down, memorized, merely all the same waiting to be opened for the truth that lies within."

- Story Circle Book Reviews

"If a person could only buy 1 book to employ as a source volume of profound or playful female writings, this would be the perfect book."

- Feature Book of the Month, Rocky Mountain Retreat Center

"This impressive album of spiritual writing is like a hand-made quilt.  Each piece is, in itself, a work of fine art, but information technology is the way they are woven together that brings out the true beauty of the whole.  At times funny, at times heartbreaking, and always idea-provoking, these pieces reveal women trying to find and express our deepest selves.  Whether they are imagining the inner life of an oak tree, singing a song to Female parent Earth, practicing Buddhism, or grieving over the death of a long-time companion, these wonderful writers and artists offer compassion, wisdom, prayers, and luminous insight to anyone seeking a greater connectedness to themselves, to the earth, and to each other.

- Bookshop Santa Cruz, Bookseller Nomination for Indie Next

 "If y'all want an idea of how women artists – in Santa Cruz and elsewhere –are actively working for peace and prosperity in the globe, read this book. And read the biographical profiles at the end also.  At that place'due south promise in the world."

- Santa Cruz Lookout

 "Sisters Singing" is an inclusive experience every bit it truly transcends religious boundaries that oftentimes exclude others. Yous will find yourself re-reading portions that touch on your heart."

- American Chronicle

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CELEBRATING SISTERS SINGING

DVD

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A cute, edited version of the unforgettable, standing-room-but opening dark honoring the publication of the anthology SISTERS SINGING.

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With over 450 people gathered on a celebratory evening, the moving-picture show has more than 25 poets, artists and musicians. Celebrating SISTERS SINGING is a sacred dear alphabetic character to the world, filled with the possibilities of relationship with all that is holy.

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The picture is an offering to anyone who loves the spoken word, not bad music, unique art, heartfelt praise of the sacred.  The sisters will make yous laugh and cry and sing. They will help you lot believe in the globe of human being possibilities. They will phone call you into your own heart. They will invite y'all to dear what is sacred to you, to drag what you cherish into the swell Eye at the heart of the world. They will give you hope.

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Source: https://www.carolynbrigitflynn.com/sisters-singing

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