Greetings often provide designer with the chance to truly stretch their creative wings. 1,000 More Greetings features examples by designers who are enjoying the luxury of personal expression through creative freedom, without the need to satisfy a client. The 1,000 inspirational examples of invitations, announcements, greetings, and self promotions are created using unique materials and expressive treatments. With correspondence for every occasion, this book is a must-have resource for designers who are looking for inspiration from an unprecedented collection of work by an international group of designers.
We welcome you all into our midst, for that has always been your rightful place. We never lost you from our hearts and still it has taken many lifetimes for you to rediscover us". These are the first words in one chapter of the book, "Greetings from the Other Side". Prepare yourself for a journey, a journey that you will undertake with your heart and soul. For the medium will take you on a mediumistic journey during which she meets Maryam. And yet, like so many other beloved people, she is dead. Yet death does not mean the end of one's existence. Only the human shell leaves the Earth: the love remains. On this basis you will discover how meditation can open the door into a brand new world, the world of the other side. There you will encounter all those you once loved, either in this life or in some other life. For there is an infinite number of light beings on the other side just waiting to help you travel the path of meditation. With your help this other world too can become brighter and warmer. Meditation will lead you across a bridge made of love and faith. For God is omnipotent. He is with us always, for He is inside of us. God is in every single cell that constitutes your body. The light beings about whom you will learn a lot in "Greetings from the Other Side" have already known you for a long time. It is your own inner voice that always leads you back to the right path. That too is the light beings at work, for it is they who inspire us. The book will show you why you find yourself on the path to becoming a medium. But in addition to these irrefutable facts you will also become conscious of other things such as how much love and truth there is inside of you. For this reason above all it is the final few chapters, which are in effect independent of mediumistic considerations as such, which will touch you to the core. They talk of a love, lost long ago in the depths of time, but which we all sense sleeping within us just waiting to be gently roused. They are about our love for our partners, love between man and wife as well as the unconditional love we feel towards our children. You will learn what you have actually always known at the bottom of your heart. Nevertheless it does help to read just how easy it is to travel the path once more that leads in the right direction, which is the one that will take you towards faith and love. Feel yourself to welcome and long awaited in the world of the light beings, of God's angels.
This ambitious and engaging book sets itself the task of combining a wide range of approaches to cast new light on the form and function of several ancient Jewish letters in a variety of languages. The focus of The Performance of Ancient Jewish Lettersis on applying a new emerging field of performance theory to texts and arguing that letters and other documents were not just read in silence, as is normal today, but were "performed," especially when they were addressed to a community. A distinctive feature of this book consists of being one of the first to apply the approach of performance criticism to ancient Jewish letters. Previous treatments of ancient letters have not given enough consideration to their oral context; however, this book prompts the reader to "listen" sympathetically with the audience. The Performance focuses close attention on the ways in which the engagement of the audience during the performance of a text might be read from traces present in the text itself. This book invites the audience to hear a fresh reading of a family letter from Hermopolis, concerning ugly tunics and castor oil; festal letters, about issues surrounding the celebration of Passover, Purim and Hanukkah; a diaspora letter on how to live in a foreign land; and also an official letter concerning the building of the Jerusalem temple. These letters will help us understand a text from the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, MMT. Marvin L. Miller argues for the centrality of performance in the life of Jews of the Second Temple period, an area of study that has been traditionally neglected. The Performanceadvances the fields of orality and epistolography and supplements other scholars' works in those fields.
