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The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die

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The stories are like layers of an onion where each depends on the one before it to exist. The horrors of war are only hinted at by the author's uncle but the reader easily draws parallels between the transitions in life with a fallow field, a fir tree covered with decorations and the emergence of new life and promise from a piece of fallow ground. The book is easily read in an hour and I blinked away tears as I finished. Since the first reading, my front lawn has been returning to Nature, just as the author's did, and every season of watching new life emerge reminds me of the story and that good things are always beginning.

This book was recomended to me at a time when I needed and recieved much healing. In a delightful and enchanting fashion it tells the story of a little girl whos long lost relative comes to be with her. The girls roots are from a place where storytelling is an intricate part of their culture. The actual tale is one of extraordinary inspiration, of philisophical and spiritual healing by revealing paralells to natures course. I will be forever comforted, moved and changed by reading and re-reading this little gem.

I listened to the tape and read the book. If you want to know the true nature of survival - especially in times like these - this is the book for you. Full of hope and evidence of the ability of humans to survive, thrive and love - no matter what. I was sorry the book was over. I am every time I read it.

Estes weaves together a tale of life, death and rebirth. It inspires readers to perceive life's trials and difficulties in a new light... An enriching, affirming book.

I listened to the tape and read the book. If you want to know the true nature of survival - especially in times like these - this is the book for you. Full of hope and evidence of the ability of humans to survive, thrive and love - no matter what. I was sorry the book was over. I am every time I read it.

A beautiful story that reminds us that the changes we fight against the most are the ones that take us where we want to go.

I am a psychiatrist, and have found tremendous restoration in reading and re-reading this book over the years. We all have points in our lives when all seems lost, when all is burned away. But no matter how much the pain of the moment tells us otherwise; we learn here that what has gone before must be cleared, so that new healthy growth can occur.
I have bought this wonderful concentric series of stories for family, friends, and patients--all of us on our respective journeys through this life. I hope that you will also find it one of the core books on your shelf, to which you return again and again.

As usual, Clarissa Pin Estes writes with tremendous insight. Her use of personal history brings the book's content and (atypically) short length to life. I think it would be wonderful as a gift to share with one's loved-ones.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes (cpe) has the gift of story-telling and this wise tale is about the cycles of life. For anybody that has ever "burned it to the ground" and found themselves waiting for the new green blades of grass to come again. Carve out a place for new growth in your life.

This book has to be shared with all your friends! If you can't see that this moving book is an example of what should be,then, you are not in tune with life!
I have given this book to many of my friends, and every one of them has,in turn, given it to someone else.