|
|
žena:\zhay'na\ means woman in czech moon:\moon\ honors the power, cycles and light reflected throughout our lives |
|||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
screw perfection |
|||||||
|
medium pillar (not shown) - 2"x6", burns up to 60 hours
From Bob the Photographer "This was the one candle I shouldn't have to worry about shooting perfectly, dang it!" So we're humoring him by using this crooked, imperfect photo he took. Bob also cautions: "Never attempt to burn candles at a 20° angle." |
|
|||||||
|
About This Candle Perfection is a myth. And we are bombarded 24x7 with images and messages showing us ways to change and things do in order to reach a closer perfection (or at least measurable improvement) in how we look, live, eat, feel, parent, decorate, work, age, entertain, clean, worship, socialize, dress, heal, process feelings, shop, make love (or not), vacation, date, manage finances, exercise, create, relax, communicate, plan, etc. Etc. ETC.! Trying to live up to this myth is a downright crazy-making spiral that keeps us in what Gary Zukav calls a "state of lack" where nothing is ever good enough--especially ourselves. When we work and strive nonstop to improve our lives, we cannot love, endorse and cherish (much less accept) Who We Are in this moment, which easily leads to ever. It's no wonder we're exhausted and frantic!
This candle honors exactly where you are, no matter where you are. Stop. Light this candle. Relax. Accept. Revel. Be. You are valuable, and lovable and, yes, perfect exactly the way you are in this very moment. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
||||||||
|
Customer Feedback
|
||||||||
|
Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Screw Perfection zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/6/2005
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: A few times in your life, someone will tell you
something so right, so deeply true that it changes you forever. That is what
Anna Quindlen, author of the timeless bestseller
A Short Guide to a Happy Life, does here.
In
Being Perfect, she shares wisdom
that, perhaps without knowing it, you have longed to hear: about “the
perfection trap,” the price you pay when you become ensnared in it, and the
key to setting yourself free. Quindlen believes that when your success looks
good to the world but doesn’t feel good in your heart, it isn’t success at
all. She asks you to set aside your friends’ advice, what your family and
co-workers demand, and what society expects, and look at the choices you make
every day. When you ask yourself why you are making them, Quindlen encourages
you to give this answer: For me. "Because they are what I want, or wish for.
Because they reflect who and what I am. . . . That way lies dancing to the
melodies spun out by your own heart." At the core of this beautiful book lies
the secret of authentic success, the inspiration to embrace your own
uniqueness and live the life that is undeniably your own, rich in fulfillment
and meaning.
2. The Art of Imperfection : Simple Ways to Make Peace With Yourself
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com:
"Our innate idiosyncrasies are actually more endearing to others than our
most glorious personal achievements," writes author Veronique Vienne in this
pretty little book, with its intriguing, sepia-tone photographs by Erica
Lennard. Vienne offers 10 meditative essays about how to be successful and
happy without being perfect. Quirkiness, after all, is creative. She
encourages you to "find solace in your shortcomings and even celebrate your
most embarrassing lapses." The essays include "the art of making mistakes,"
"the art of looking like yourself," "the art of having nothing to wear," and
"the art of being neither rich nor famous." Vienne envisions a world where
people could bump into furniture and forget to return phone calls "without
getting unduly annoyed with themselves," never consult shopping lists at the
checkout counter, and "only carry bags you could use as pillows." This is a
delightful book.
3. Transformation Soup : Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: Since the early 1990s, SARK's playful, sympathetic style has made her an immensely popular author of self-help and creativity books. Like her past works (Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed; Succulent Wild Woman; etc.), this vividly illustrated guide speaks to the reader's "inner child," aiming to free the imperfect, fearful, sad, funny and creative aspects that adults usually hide. This time SARK addresses the process of healing, inquiring, "What Hurts?" and gently leading readers to places (gardens, Zen retreat centers, bed) and activities (meditation, massage, creative expression) that promote recovery. With dark tales of her own experience of incest, and goofy ones, including one about Rosie O'Donnell's chin hair, SARK's book reflects the "friendly disorder" of being human, covering a wide range of topics, from the trauma of broken relationships to body image and aging. Along with her heartfelt ruminations, SARK offers book referrals, transformation stories and a reference list of healers, including massage therapists, hairstylists, musicians and authors. In one fanciful section, she imagines the lessons a healing school might teach, including intuition, "non-competitive play," "accepting success" and "identifying patterns of self-defeat." All the while, she pushes readers toward their own creative expression through exercises such as "turning [inner] critics into allies" and marrying oneself. SARK's unpretentious effort illustrates her fundamental theme that "we are all swirling in the soup together" and that "whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of all of us."
Original Release Date: 1993
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: Sweet Honey in
the Rock celebrated their musical, political, and personal triumphs in style
and in public with this benchmark 1993 album.
Still
on the Journey offers a banquet of
songs that center on love and living, struggle and death. After 20 years and
many lineup shifts, the all-women African American a cappella group continues
to demonstrate what a beautiful instrument the human voice can be. A mildly
self-indulgent rap self-tribute is offset by the mournful "Spiritual." "Come
By Here" illustrates the group's unique capacity to layer vocal lines into a
loose net of improvised rhythms and melodies without losing the thread of the
song. Here also Sweet Honey dabbles for the first time in vocal percussion.
Reflections on Africa come into crisp focus in "Wodabe Nights," while "Wanting
Memories" makes it clear that, though the journey has been long and hard,
Sweet Honey has no plans to rest.
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
Original Release Date: 1967
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: When the Velvets recorded this debut, they were best known as the protégés of Andy Warhol (who designed the sleeve), and as a grating, combustive live band. Fueled by drummer Moe Tucker's no-nonsense wham and John Cale's howling viola, some of the straight-up rock & roll and arty noise extravaganzas here bear that out. But before Lou Reed was singing about sadomasochism and drug deals and writing lyrics inspired by his favorite poets, he was a pop songwriter, and this album has some of his prettiest tunes, mostly sung by Nico, the German dark angel who left the band after this disc. Even the sordid rockers are underscored by graceful pop tricks, like the two-chord flutter at the center of the classic "Heroin."
Original Release Date: 1994
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: Story's music is of its own world. Pure vision, pure integrity. As an artist, this is both his strength and his limitation--you'll find Beguiled and Shadowplay pretty much of the same fabric. Of these, The Perfect Flaw is the most compelling, and it sets out a musical path that opens inner worlds and cuts to the quick.
(2004) ~ DVD
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: Jeff Bridges demonstrates once again that he is one of the finest actors in film. Ted Cole (Bridges, Seabiscuit, The Big Lebowski), a successful writer/illustrator of children's books, invites a young student named Eddie (Jon Foster) to be his assistant for a summer. Eddie doesn't realize he's being drawn into the middle of a dissolving marriage until Ted's wife Marion (Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential) invites him into an affair--which Ted both condones and resents. Slowly, Eddie comes to understand the secrets that are tearing the marriage apart. Bridges never shows off; everything he does seems simple, natural, almost unavoidable, but it's also utterly watchable. Whether you like the movie will depend on whether you like John Irving (The Door in the Floor is based on part of his novel A Widow for One Year), but Bridges' performance is undeniable. Also featuring Mimi Rogers (The Rapture).
(2004) ~ DVD
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: Given the formidable challenge of adapting Philip Roth's acclaimed novel to the screen, it's a wonder that The Human Stain retains so much of what makes Roth's novel a masterpiece. As adapted by Nicholas Meyer, Robert Benton's film is inevitably a different animal altogether, and it's wide open to charges of miscasting and thematic diffusion. But at its core, this delicate drama succeeds in exposing the sins that stain all of humanity, forcing men like former welterweight boxer and esteemed professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) to forsake family and career to conceal his African American heritage. Light-skinned and passing as a Jewish professor of classics in a tony East Coast college, 71-year-old Silk sinks into scandal when an innocent remark is misinterpreted as a racist slur, and this--along with his affair with an illiterate 34-year-old janitor (Nicole Kidman), and friendship with a reclusive novelist (Gary Sinise)--forms the crux of Benton's multilayered inquiry into the oppressive aftershocks of guilt, shame, and mourning, and the effects of judgment (internal and external) on our ability to connect. Roth's novel was one thing, Benton's film is another. Despite differing degrees of success, both are worthy of praise.
(1999) ~ DVD
Avg.
Customer Rating:
From Amazon.com: A wonderful film about an adventurous woman who's an imperfect mother living as true as she can to her spirit, with stellar performances by the entire cast. Hideous Kinky journeys back to the early 1970s to Marrakesh, that hippy mecca for everyone from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Gillies MacKinnon, the director of this movie. Here you'll find one nice but confused middle-class young woman escaping the daily grind of a drab London with her two young daughters in tow. Whereas Esther Freud's book was told from the younger girl's perspective, the film script places Julia center stage as she searches for what she describes wistfully as "the annihilation of the ego."
Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to her role and looking fetching swathed in diaphanous layers. As her two daughters, Bella Riza (Bea, the wide-eyed younger one) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy, the sensible one) are brilliant discoveries--unselfconscious, charmingly quirky, and enjoying a camaraderie that belies their difference in characters. Completing the family unit is Julia's lover, the endearingly unreliable Bilal (a fiery performance from Saïd Taghmaoui). When the money runs out, their adventures begin and the resilience and practicality of the girls is contrasted throughout with the dreaminess of their mother, her sense of duty vying with her quest for self-discovery. Visually, it's a veritable feast as we're pitched from the color and cacophony of the marketplace to the dusty harshness of the mountains. And that elusive title--which is never explained in the film--is in fact a phrase coined by the girls as a term of approbation. | ||||||||
Item No.
C1150-02
other sizes available:
This
item usually ships in 2-3 business days
Shopping with us is
Music
Movies
A zena moon Essential Movie
|
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
about our candles | full moon specials | moon phase calendar secure shopping | returns | shipping rates & methods privacy | customer service | contact us
© 2000+ zena moon. All rights reserved. |