This summer, join us for a 12-week exploration of creativity! Each week we'll meet to review a chapter of Julia Cameron's influential work, The Artist's Way. We'll meet to discuss how the book's words and exercises help us in our own creative journeys. Meeting in a group gives us all accountability and support.
Join Miss Isabelle for a story-listening, song-singing, belly-laughing, hand-clapping time during our weekly Storytime! We'll be live in person every Friday at 10:30 AM!
September selection: THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett
THE DUTCH HOUSE is a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. It is the story of a paradise lost, a modern fairy tale that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. The Dutch House was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels, four works of nonfiction, and two children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize in the U.K., and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Join Miss Isabelle for a story-listening, song-singing, belly-laughing, hand-clapping time during our weekly Storytime! We'll be live in person every Friday at 10:30 AM!
Join Dr. Somesh Kaushik for this monthly series on Ayurvedic Medicine. This series is sponsored by the Libraries of Putnam County New York.
Ayurveda is a healing system that not only restores balance, its methodology removes the unconscious blocks that create chronic stress. Ayurvedic treatments such as diet, nutritional herbs, meditation, therapeutic Yoga, and an herbal detoxification process known as panchakarma, work hand-in-hand to create a shift on a physical level, as well as on a mental and spiritual level. The result is a transformation and unification of body, mind, and spirit that resolves the separation responsible for the addiction. Your true self emerges and the addiction is no longer necessary.
2021 LECTURES
November 16 - Ayurveda and Diabetes: A Whole Body Approach
December 14 - The Healing Power of Gratitude: A Body, Mind, Spirit Elixir
ABOUT SOMESH N. KAUSHIK, ND, BAMS, MPH, MPA, E-RYT 500 is an Ayurvedic specialist/consultant. After completing B.A.M.S., 6½ years of Ayurvedic training in 1983 from Kurukshetra University, India. He worked as an Ayurvedic Medical Officer before moving to the U.S. He earned M.P.H. and M.P.A. from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and N.D. from the University of Bridgeport, where he taught Ayurvedic medicine and Public Health courses and worked as the Director of Admissions for the College of Naturopathic Medicine. Before moving to Connecticut, he worked as an Epidemiologist and Director of HIV/AIDS sero-surveillance with the Alabama Department of Public Health while maintaining an Ayurvedic practice. He has been a faculty member with the University of Bridgeport, Division of Health Sciences since 2001 He has over 36 years of experience as an Ayurvedic physician.
Join Miss Isabelle for a story-listening, song-singing, belly-laughing, hand-clapping time during our weekly Storytime! We'll be live in person every Friday at 10:30 AM!
Join Miss Isabelle for a story-listening, song-singing, belly-laughing, hand-clapping time during our weekly Storytime! We'll be live in person every Friday at 10:30 AM!
Selected Title: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
For girls 9-13 year old and their mother
The Girl Who Drank the Moon is the story of Luna who, after being raised by a witch must figure out how to handle the magical powers she was accidentally given. She must control her powers before it's too late. The book won the 2017 Newbery Medal.
"Impossible to put down . . . The Girl Who Drank the Moon is as exciting and layered as classics like Peter Pan or The Wizard of Oz." --The New York Times Book Review
Kelly Barnhill is the author of four novels, most recently The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the Newbery Medal, and the short story collection for adult readers, Dreadful Young Ladies, and Other Stories.
Stoned! a crash-course in crystal and stone healing
In the last 4 years, there’s been a 40% increase in Google searches for “crystal and stone healing.” That’s fueled, in part, by endorsements from celebrities like Katy Perry, Kate Hudson, and Adele (who clutches a stone during performances to fend off stage fright). At the 2017 Grammys, Adele had the hiccups – which she attributes to the fact that she’d lost her beloved stones.
Don’t underestimate the healing powers of stones and crystals!
This class is a hidden gem!
How to cleanse, charge, and set intentions for your stones
Healing properties of specific crystals
How to determine which crystals and stones speak to you, and why
Divinatory meanings (for example):
Dalmatian Jasper promotes childlike joy and enjoyment! The black spots within dalmatian jasper are black tourmaline, which gives this stone the energy of spiritual grounding and psychic protection. This stone helps you to break down the protective barriers you’ve created around yourself – and your heart.
Join Miss Isabelle for a story-listening, song-singing, belly-laughing, hand-clapping time during our weekly Storytime! We'll be live in person every Friday at 10:30 AM!
The Artist's Way Book Study Group
