The Gathering
The Gathering

Author: Dan Poblocki

Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781338091274

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Some houses are more than just haunted... they're hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing -- and nobody -- can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear. And the way out? That's disappeared, too... Enter Shadow House... if you dare. Don't just read about Shadow House -- explore its haunted depths with the free app!

The Art of Gathering
The Art of Gathering

Author: Priya Parker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1594634939

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"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.

The Gift of Gathering Planner
The Gift of Gathering Planner

Author: Bre Doucette

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0736982280

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This charming planner will help you host gracious and memorable get-togethers that inspire connection. Discover new ideas, recipes, and simple DIYs, along with handy checklists and other tools to keep you on track. Welcome warmth, joy, and laughter back to your table. Plan and prepare for your next gathering with an open heart, a thoughtfully decorated table, an easy and delicious meal, and those extra-special touches your guests will appreciate and remember. Bre Doucette, creator of the popular lifestyle blog Rooms for Rent and the author of the Gift of Gathering book, doesn’t want you or your loved ones to miss out on the opportunity to join one another for good food and fellowship. Bre has designed this planner with everything you’ll need to host with ease and confidence. Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing that every detail has been accounted for, freeing you up to fully enjoy the true gift of gathering— spending time with your friends and family. This planner makes an ideal companion to theGift of Gathering book or works perfectly on its own.

The House of Gathering
The House of Gathering

Author: Erica Sarzin-Borrillo

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1452516871

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Praise for The House of Gathering: Using words as wands, the wildly talented artist, performer, visionary, mystic and magic maker Erica Sarzin-Borrillo offers a feast of life in all its stages and surprises. Here is truth telling wrought in poetic images and stunning cadence. The Goddess takes up residence in this potent book and the reader is never the same. - Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Possible Human Erica Sarzin-Borrillos mystical poetry awakens us to our divine essence. It inspires, consoles, and invites us to come home to the Eternal Lover and be the resurrection of this world. As with the passionate verses of Hafiz and Rumi, here is expression of the ecstatic love affair, rich with depth, humor, mystery and inspiration. This is poetry which is not created or manufactured, but birthed. In The House of Gathering you will experience fire, longing, benediction, and forgiveness, and you will want to plunge into these inviting depths again and again . . . - Jane Smith Bernhardt, author of We Are Here: Love Never Dies and The Sweet Conversation: A Guide to Spiritual Listening Ms. Sarzin-Borrillo has the most extraordinary gift of being able to describe the souls journey. Her poetry comes closer to expressing it than any writing I have ever experienced. Each piece is like looking at one of a thousand lights of the soul, each stimulating an inner sense that bring us closer to the truth of our own essence. We are lifted on word-wings that guide us inward to the awakening of our own soul-self. This poetry jump-starts that inner journey for those who have forgotten and for those who need reminding. - Robert Stempson, co-author of The Sixth Sense, Founder and Director of Programs for Human Development (PHD) and www.CTPsychics.com.

Black Gathering
Black Gathering

Author: Sarah Jane Cervenak

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1478021772

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In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership.