Re: Re: Becoming Bread - book recommendation

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Yes Happy New Year to everyone!I'm in Oz too and it took nearly 6 hours for your email to come through to me!KateI really like fresh-baked bread. It was part of the staple diet for generations of my family.Oh, Happy New Year everyone. Here in Oz it's already 2011, 0627 Saturday, to be precise.Regards,Detlef>> That's because my email and myself are Spanish (well half Spanish anyway), as for the y n bit, thats a mystery HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! XXX> > --- El vie, 31/12/10, hbbr hbbr@... escribió:> > De: hbbr hbbr@...> Asunto: Re: Becoming Bread - book recommendation> Para: "ACT for the Public" ACT_for_the_Public > Fecha: viernes, 31 de diciembre, 2010 14:48> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks Em -- I think you would like it as much as I do.> > Now, how did those Spanish (Italian?) words get into my header below? Also, it says Happy New Year to my ACT friend Y N -- like it's a yes or no thing. Very amusing and interesting!> > Helena> > > > Re: Becoming Bread - book recommendation> > > > > > > > > > > > Lovely, a very nourishing book it seems will certainly check it out XXX> > --- El vie, 31/12/10, hbbr hbbr@... escribió:> > > De: hbbr hbbr@...> Asunto: Becoming Bread - book recommendation> Para: "ACT" act_for_the_public > Fecha: viernes, 31 de diciembre, 2010 11:44> > > > > > > > > > Happy New Year to my ACT friends!y n> > I love this book and have reached for it again and again over the years--long before I discovered ACT. Having just read it once more, I find it to be quite consistent with ACT, although there are some references to spirituality and God (but no dogma). > > Becoming Bread by Gunilla Norris> > An excerpt:> Love. Bread. It breaks. It crumbles. It nourishes. We share it. Bread that comes from grain, from earth, from rain, from summer and light, from labor and threshing. Bread of comfort, of necessity, of sorrow. Bread that brings life. Fresh bread. Stale bread. Bread crumbs. We are all of that.> > Crumbs> > Be careful with the crumbs.> Do not overlook them.> > Be careful with the crumbs:> the little chances to love,> > the tiny gestures, the morsels> that feed, the minims.> > Take care of the crumbs:> a look, a laugh, a smile,> > a teardrop, an open hand. Take care> of the crumbs. They are food also.> > Do not let them fall.> Gather them. Cherish them.> > __________________________________________________________> > http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Bread-Meditations-Loving-Transformation/dp/0517591685/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8 & qid=1293793638 & sr=8-4> > Following is a link for a set of three books by the same author, bound together as one book (only 1.88 used). Highly recommended; the other two books are delightful as well.> > http://www.amazon.com/Sharing-Silence-Becoming-Bread-Journeying/dp/B0006QRTC0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8 & qid=1293793638 & sr=8-2> > Helena>