Friday 56: Stone Soup for the World

Stone Soup for the World
Long ago, my daughter worked at Publisher's Group West. She had given me an advanced reading copy of Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Kindness & Courageous Acts of Service, Collected by Marianne Larned.












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The next step after "random acts of kindness", this guide inspires and instructs readers on building harmonious communities one act at a time. Over 100 stories written by or about Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Christopher Reeve, Ram Dass, Steven Spielberg, Jimmy Carter, and others are included, as well as an extensive resource guide and directory to service groups and social organizations around the country.

Product Details





  • Paperback: 436 pages
  • Publisher: Conari Pr (March 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1573241180
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573241182



    • Editorial Reviews


    From the Publisher


    What People are Saying About Stone Soup for the World: "Giving back through service to communities is becoming the wave of the future. Stone Soup for the World is a beacon of light pointing the way. It is a handbook for humanitarians. " Jack Canfield
    "By celebrating ordinary people doing extraordinary things to build communities, Stone Soup for the World proves that possibility for everyone of us." Frances Moore Lappe
    "Stone Soup for the World is filled with the kinds of inspriational stories we all need to hear. Marianne's gift is in presenting them in ways people will want to hear." Eric Utne, The Utne Reader

    From the Author


    This book has inspired people across the country to catch the "Stone Soup" spirit, and get involved in their communities. Educators are using this book, and "The Leader's Guide to Stone Soup for the World" to inspire their middle and high school students. At the 1997 Presidents' Summit for America's Future, the Stone Soup Foundation made a commitment to develop partnerships with those involved with America's Promise to sponsor 1,000,000 books to America's youth. It's heartwarming to see people naturally coming forward to help achieve this goal.

    The Friday 56

    "She had carried a few hundred kilos of medicine and food from Calcutta, but that was a tiny drop in the vast ocean of need." -- adapted from Mother Teresa: The Authorized Biography

    Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Kindness & Courageous Acts of Service

    foggy day at the beach: LadyD Books

    Sometimes when the day temperature is warm, you'll notice a fog bank come creeping in from the coast. This photo that I took at Oceanside Harbor around 3:00 reminds me of the book I'm reading. It's about everyone coming together and making the earth a better place.

    Photo for Skywatch Friday



     

    “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." C. S. Lewis

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    Book Review: Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

    Daily Rituals: How Artists Work


    "Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, "time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wiggle through by subtle maneuvers."





    My Review


    Inspirational read about the daily rituals of great minds. I was especially interested in learning about the creative habits of famous composers. It's fascinating to know that we as artists have similar patterns and disciplines of so many creative minds mentioned here. Not surprising to read of composer's finding their inspiration in nature or upon rising early in the morning to compose their songs. What intrigued me was 
    their sensitivity to privacy and not wanting to keep diaries or to be quoted by family members. Yet their desire was to teach and share their great gifts with the world. Indeed, they have and we are so enriched to review how they achieved their greatness in these writings. Take your time with this one because there are so many treasures to discover here. My only disappointment was that the contents were not alphabetized but you can easily pick up anywhere and find out about musicians, artists, philosophers and scientists. My favorite quote is from Tchaikovsky, of course.

     4/5 stars.


    My Favorites

    "From nine to one I give lessons." -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    "Then he sat at his desk and worked until 2:00 or 3:00, taking the occasional break to walk outdoors, which aided his creativity. (Perhaps for this reason, Beethoven's productivity was generally higher during the warmer months." -- Ludwig van Beethoven 
    "His creation was spontaneous and miraculous. He found it without seeking it, without for-seeing it. It came on his piano suddenly, complete, sublime, or sang in his head during a walk, and he was impatient to play it to himself." -- Frederic Chopin
    "I have never been able to compose unless sure that no one could hear me." -- Igor Stravinsky 
    "My life has been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public." -- Louis Armstrong
     "Like the pugilist, the songwriter must always keep in training." -- George Gershwin
    "The seed of a future composition usually reveals itself suddenly, in the most unexpected fashion. If the soil is favorable - that is, if I am in the mood for work, this seed takes root with inconceivable strength and speed, bursts through the soil, puts out roots, leaves, twigs and finally flowers: I can not define the creative process except through this metaphor." -- Tchaikovsky 

    Daily Rituals: How Artists Work 

    Here's  a quick overview of all the famous people the author has quoted from the book.

    Abbey
    Abramovic
    Adams
    Allen
    Amis
    Angelou
    Armstrong
    Asimov
    Auden
    Austen

    Bacon
    Baker
    Balanchine
    Balzac
    Barthelme
    Baum
    Beattie
    Beauvoir
    Beckett
    Beethoven
    Bell
    Bellow
    Bergman
    Boswell
    Bourgeois

    Cather
    Cheever
    Chopin
    Close
    Cornell

    Darwin
    Descartes
    Dickens
    Dickey

    Eco
    Edwards
    Einstein
    Eliot
    Erdos

    Farrell
    Faulkner
    Feldman
    Fellini
    Fitzgerald
    Franklin
    Franzen
    Freud
    Fuller

    Gass
    Gershwin
    Goethe
    Gogh
    Gould
    Grass
    Greene

    Hamsun
    Hawthorne
    Heller
    Hemingway
    Highsmith
    Himes
    Hirschfield
    Hobbes
    Hugo

    James
    Johnson
    Joyce
    Jung

    Kafka
    Kahn
    Kalman
    Kant
    Kierkegaard
    King
    Kooning
    Kosinski

    Larkin
    Lautrec
    Liszt
    Lynch

    Mahler
    Malamud
    Mann
    Marx
    Matisse
    McCullers
    Mead
    Melville
    Mencken
    Miller
    Milton
    Miro
    Morrison
    Mozart
    Munro
    Murakami

    Nabokov

    Oates
    O'Connor
    O'Keeffe
    Orwell

    Picasso
    Plath
    Pollock
    Pritchett
    Prose
    Proust

    Rachmaninoff
    Rand
    Reich
    Rice
    Richter
    Robinson
    Roth

    Sacks
    Sand
    Sartre
    Schiller
    Schubert
    Schultz
    Shostakovich
    Simenon
    Sitwell
    Skinner
    Stafford
    Stein
    Stevens
    Stoppard
    Strauss
    Stravinsky
    Styron

    Tesla
    Tchaikovsky
    Tharp
    Tolstoy
    Trollope
    Twain

    Updike

    Voltaire

    Wallace
    Wilson
    Wodehouse
    Wolfe
    Wright
    Wyeth

    Yeats

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    Daily Rituals: How Artists Work









     “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." C. S. Lewis

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