While this is the season of good tidings and cheer, some of us may find it difficult to embrace the merriment; here are two new books at the library that you might find useful if you’re struggling.
Worthy As You Are: Weed Out Unhealthy Beliefs and Nourish Your Authentic Self by Durgadas Allon Duriel. Navigating through nine important realms of your life—including body positivity, relationships, self-love, career, money, gender, and family—this book helps you find greater freedom within yourself. Durgadas Allon Duriel provides important tools and exercises for weeding your garden (removing negative self-talk) and planting new beliefs (creating affirmations to cultivate healthy habits). Durgadas shows you how to healthfully process difficult emotions and experiences around shame and guilt, chronic illness, anxiety and depression, self-sabotage, and aging. This book also explores spiritual bypassing and teaches techniques that help promote well-being like mindfulness practice and connecting with the divine. By aligning with spirit and tending your inner garden, you can shift your everyday thoughts from feeling harmful to nourishing and accept that you are worthy exactly as you are.
Lonely Planet’s Guide to Death, Grief, and Rebirth: How Global Grieving Customs Can Help Us Live (and Die) Well by Anita Isalska with Joe Bindloss. Lonely Planet explores over 30 customs around death, grief and rebirth in cultures and communities around the world and highlights some of the lessons we can all learn from them. With first-person narratives, locals tell the stories of their culture’s customs in their own voices. Photography and illustration brings the fascinating pages to life. Through such topics as the tangihanga mourning tradition of New Zealand’s Maori people, Irish wakes and the annual Day of the Dead across Mexico, this book explores what it means to mourn loved ones. It also covers some of the funeral traditions of communities around the world, including Tibetan sky burials, the cremation ghats of Varanasi, India, and Ghana’s fantasy coffins. With more than 30 in-depth accounts of customs around death, grief and rebirth, including spotlights on key aspects and details of how to witness some of the events. The book includes special spreads on sites around the world to visit and vibrant illustrations and photography to explain the customs in a respectful manner. There are first-person accounts of attending New Orleans’ jazz funerals, the Day of the Dead and other occasions. The book also offers explanations of what insights and lessons readers may gain from some customs. Lonely Planet’s Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth is a unique and illuminating book about the rituals and customs people around the world perform in order to come to terms with the inevitable loss of loved ones.
Upcoming Events at the Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library
Tuesdays:
Creative Social Circle: Tuesdays at 5 PM. Bring your own crafts or work with our craft supplies. We will have a sample project each week if you need inspiration on what to make. Enjoy coffee, tea, and the company of other adults as you work. Ages 15 and up are invited to attend.
Yoga at the Library: Tuesdays at 6 PM through December 10th. $5 per session, payable to Instructor Dave Sivley. Tuesdays, from 6-7 PM. Bring a yoga mat & water bottle.
Noon Year’s Eve: December 31 – Countdown at NOON! Join us for a glow party, with games, music, snacks and more to celebrate exceeding our community reading goal & ring in the new year!
Wednesdays:
Support Group for Parents of Challenging Kids: the 2nd Wednesday of every month— December 11 at 9 AM Parenting isn’t easy. If you are feeling overwhelmed, join others to gain valuable support coping strategies and information about community resources.
Preschool Story Hour: Wednesdays at 11 AM. Join us for music, movement, stories & crafts intended for ages 0-5 and their parents/caregivers. (No story hour while we’re closed on December 25th and January 1st.)
Thursdays:
First Thursday Book Club: December 5, 2024, 12 NOON-1 PM. Join others to chat about what you have been reading or to get suggestions from others.
Sourdough for Beginners: December 12 at 5:30 PM. Learn the art of sourdough from Lindsey Morehouse of The Dough & More. $10 registration required and includes materials and your own starter to take home. Seats are limited.
Fridays:
Lego at the Library: Fridays 3:00-4:30 PM. Build & create with our Lego & Duplo collections! All ages are welcome!
Saturdays:
Cookie Decorating: December 7, 11 AM-6 PM, during Christmas in the Village. Stop by the Children’s Library to create your own sweet treat!
Piano Recital by Ewert Music Studios: December 7 at 4 PM, during Christmas in the Village. Gather near the fireplace to enjoy festive music by talented, young musicians.
Tech Time: select Saturdays, December 7, 14, 21, From 10AM-1PM. Are you struggling with your phone? Do you have trouble navigating the internet? Do you need help with mel.org, the Libby App or the Marcellus Library Catalog? Drop in the library to ask Justin your IT related questions and learn to navigate your device or our computers!
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