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About This Candle Ah, glorious spring! After winter's rest, we emerge from the den to see all of nature coming alive again. It's the season for new beginnings, baby animals, hope, falling in love, blossoming flowers and trees, mating, fresh starts. Attune your natural rhythms with Nature! Spring is the perfect time to begin new projects--to clean--to be active--to fall in love (doesn't have to be with someone new)--to plant your garden, both literally and figuratively. Our beautiful spring candle honors the turning of the wheel and the special rebirth energies of this wonderful season. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Spring 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 2/1/2007
1. Thirst
by Mary Oliver (Hardcover - 2006)
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From Amazon.com: Consoling, and intense interaction with the natural world
abounds
in the 43 poems of Pulitzer Prize–winner Oliver's new collection, as her
many readers might expect. The trees whisper, a ribbon snake imparts lessons
and the poet is likened to a swimming otter. What has changed, though, is
that Oliver's new work reflects her faith in God and her grief over the
death of her longtime partner. Those who do not share her brand of faith may
or may not find its terms difficult to accept-–"Everything is His. / The
door. The door jamb"-–but the loss of a loved one is more universal: of
grief, she writes, "I went closer, / and I did not die." Still, many of
these poems mention or court cataclysmic loss while refusing to dwell in it.
At times, Oliver's will-to-gratitude can feel like preaching or
admonishment; Oliver describes a luna moth with "a pale green wing whose rim
is like a musical notation," before adding, "Have you noticed?" The role of
danger or evil in this Eden is mostly unacknowledged: "... the things of
this world / ... are kind, and maybe / also troubled."
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From Amazon.com: At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing." These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert's exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, "It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.'"
3. Organizing from the Inside Out, 2nd Edition
by Julie Morgenstern (Paperback - 2004)
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From Amazon.com: It's about time! Julie Morgenstern has written an organizing book that covers a new way of looking at the task of organizing effectively without labeling or blaming the person behind the lack of organization. Rather, she says, people who don't organize just never learned how to organize, through no fault of their own--after all, it's not a skill that's taught in school. That said, she gets down to work helping you figure out an organizing system that will really work for you, not a system based on cookie-cutter filing concepts or special storage units.
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David Benoit (Audio CD)
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From Amazon.com: Of the nearly 1000 CDs that I own, this one would absolutely make the short list of those that I consider indispensable. While both this CD and Benoit's Letter to Evan are tribute albums to jazz piano player Bill Evans, both go much further than than the typical tribute album. It should also be mentioned that these two albums are somewhat atypical from most of Benoit's other more popish smooth jazz recordings in they are more jazz-quartet oriented.
~ Antonio Vivaldi (Audio CD) Original Release Date: 1990
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From Amazon.com: I remember purchasing this version on tape a few years back, and was still amazed at the beauty. Now on CD, it sounds even better. Silverstein is a master, and he rightfully plays the piece straight out. It's rather difficult to listen to any other performance of the Four Seasons after Silverstein and the Boston Symphony have played it. All in all, I'd say it is not just one of the best Four Seasons performances ever recorded ... it is one of the best recorded performances of any classical piece in history. You will not be disappointed.
Original Release Date: 1982
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From Amazon.com: More like poems for piano than traditional, structured songs, the music of George Winston plays like a lyrical soundtrack to the natural world's rhythms, and nowhere is this more brilliantly enacted than on his third album, Winter Into Spring. There are wondrous, beautiful melodies here, but what's amazing is Winston's intense inspiration that spills from his spirit and flows straight to the keys. He uses simple techniques that would hardly impress the most intellectual of music critics but can bring any listener with an artist's heart to tears. Tense and full of motion, his Steinway urgently rolls through songs like aspen leaves fluttering in the wind. From the first sparse, tinkling notes of "January Stars," Winston pulls you into his solitary dreamscape and doesn't let you go until the CD's end. It's fitting Winston named this album after a transition because the music couldn't take you to lovelier places. A masterpiece.
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Bull Durham
(1988) ~ DVD
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Bull
Durham is about
minor league baseball. It's also about romance, sex, poetry, metaphysics, and
talent--though not necessarily in that order. Susan Sarandon plays a loopy
lady who just loves America's national pastime--and the men who play it. At
the opening of every season, she attaches herself to a promising rookie and
guides him through the season. Unfortunately, the player she bestows her
favors upon does not really deserve it. She knows it, and veteran Kevin
Costner knows it. Her choice, a dim bulb played for laughs by Tim Robbins, is
the only one who doesn't know it. The film, directed by its writer, Ron
Shelton, a former minor league player, is rich in subtle detail. There are
Edith Piaf records playing in the background, fast-talking managers, and minor
characters as developed as the leads. Sarandon's retro-'50s outfits make you
think she's just another bimbo, not an English teacher very much in control of
her life. And Costner's clear-eyed, slightly vitriolic performance is
devastatingly sexy and keenly witty. The love scenes, though tasteful, are
almost as humorous as they are hot. Sarandon's character likes to tie her
players up and expand their horizons by reading Walt Whitman to them, "'cause
a guy will listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay." How can you not
love a movie with such a wicked sense of humor?
(2002) ~ DVD
~ Subtitled in English
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Autumn
Spring is
a marvelous Czech film that explores the relationship of Fanda and Emilie--an
elderly Czech couple. Fanda and Emilie are opposites in many ways. Fanda is
happy-go-lucky and open to all sorts of new experiences (he's learning French,
for example). His wife, Emilie, on the other hand is obsessed with planning
their funerals, and she even rather morbidly suggests that they clean and
maintain their future burial spot. Fanda and Emilie don't have much money, and
they live in a cramped flat. Their selfish son, Jara, can't wait to get his
hands on the flat by moving his parents into a old-people's home.
Fanda, a former actor, hangs
around with his old friend, Eda, and the two get into all sorts of trouble
together. They concoct schemes that involve deception of others. The schemes
can be fairly harmless--for example, at one point Eda and Fanda pose as
ticket inspectors. But sometimes the schemes are far more complicated and
potentially damaging, and one of these schemes leads Fanda to "borrow" money
from his wife's funeral savings.
I was extremely impressed by
this film. On the surface, the film deals with the husband and wife's
squabbles about money, and the husband's refusal to face his death. Fanda's
personality is refreshing and charming, and yet at the same time, some of
the games he plays are rather anti-social. Fanda capitalizes on his age to
further his schemes, but he also risks being labeled incompetent and perhaps
being deprived of his small freedoms. The film also examines the institution
of marriage, and it does an excellent job of portraying the balance of power
within the relationship. These two elderly people are still hashing out
fundamental issues of control--Fanda's smoking for example, and it's clear
that Fanda's antics are his attempt to maintain a little independence while
wiggling from his wife's control. Unfortunately when Fanda's schemes go
out-of-control, Emilie is swift to wield her winning hand, punish, and exact
control.
I almost didn't rent this
film. I read the cover several times while trying to decide if
Autumn Spring
was going to be an awful sort of sentimental film--it certainly looked as
though the story could be a tearjerker. But the film was much better (and
darker) than that. This was not a syrupy sweet "Hallmark" film about how two
old people face their deaths. The script was clever, the characters
fascinating, and the acting quite superb. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
(1987) ~ DVD ~ Subtitled in English
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From Amazon.com: Less a sequel than a seamless
continuation of its predecessor,
Jean de Florette,
Manon of the Spring
brings with it a more epic scope as it depicts the growth to womanhood of the
daughter (Emmanuelle Béart) of the doomed farmer of the first film. As she
discovers the truth of what happened to her father as a result of the scheming
of their neighbor (Yves Montand), who took the land for himself, she vows
revenge, realizing that the neighbor's deeds have irrevocably shaped the
course of her life. Her moves toward avenging her father's demise provide an
ironic twist to this harsh and thought-provoking saga, and French director
Claude Berri perfectly illustrates the lasting consequences of deceit, greed,
and revenge.
Manon of the Spring
is a very special foreign film choice, destined to be revered for years to
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