Buying Options

Read for Free

OR

Print List Price:	$25.00
Kindle Price:	$2.99 Save $22.01 (88%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Share <Embed>

Unshaken Wonder: Becoming Playful Elders Together by [Lori Kane]

Follow the Author

Lori Kane

Unshaken Wonder: Becoming Playful Elders Together Kindle Edition

by Lori Kane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

17 ratings

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$2.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$25.00

$21.00

$22.49

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles $2.99 to buy
Paperback
$25.00

2 Used from $22.49 2 New from $21.00

I feared that I’d never get there. To Unapologetic Playfulness Land. Lori’s own Promised Land. Maya Angelou got there. Gandhi got there. The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and even writer Anne Lamott got there. My friends Bernie DeKoven, Bayo Akomolafe, and Natalie Kinsey the tree-haired wonder got there. Even Mom got there, thanks in large part to her Alzheimer’s disease.

But could I get there? Could an angry, burned out person who felt unwilling and unprepared to become a family and community elder—a person who often felt like burning the world or at least its elected leaders to the ground—become a playful elder?

I followed these questions away from the serious, city-dwelling researcher self that I’d been until I became an island-dwelling artist who knows that people are actually brave and fun and even hilarious every chance they get. I know now that wonder is within me, it’s all around us, and that we humans can be playful in the face of anything. And I do mean anything...

What does it take to become a playful elder today? What does it take to encounter wonder daily? What does it take to reconnect with the wonder at our core during times of increasing polarization, isolation, exhaustion, and anger and when confronted by pain, death, injustice, and horror? And what exactly is unshaken wonder—the wonder that appears to sit at the core of playful elders around the world? I suspect that to feel unshaken wonder you must be ready to unlearn much of what the old you thought was true. That you must be ready to open yourself up to new possibilities, people, and ideas again and again. Ready to let go of what doesn’t matter in this moment in favor of what matters most to those fully present and together, right now.

Are you ready?

Length: 474 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled

Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account

Editorial Reviews

Review

Once in a while I find a new writer who truly speaks to my heart. Although I wish it
were more common, not everyone is able to purposefully seek out a life of WONDER.
And it's even more rare to then write a beautifully articulated book about it. I believe
that wonder, awe, joy, and silliness, are our inherent and natural state, the state we
originally arrive here with. Lori Kane is an author who not only believes this but feels so
passionately about being unabashedly wonder-filled, seeking grace-led humor, and joy-
filled wisdom, being brave enough to seek your own personal legend, your raw,
wonderful life. Lori Kane has written a deeply moving, humorous, elegant treatment of
human emotion and human potential. I highly recommend this book to those who are
or want to be Playful Elders and for those seeking to intentionally live purposefully with
all that life throws at them and survive despite of it and in the end, maybe even feel
like smiling.
~ Sarah Saint-Laurent, Bestselling Author of the Awakening Shakti Series.

From the Author

If you're wondering if this book would make a good gift for someone, here's what I can tell you so far. About 125 members of my community were prereaders or early first readers of this book. Of those people, 123 people either really enjoyed it (4 stars) or absolutely loved it (5 stars). These people were women, men, progressives, conservatives, people of color, white folks, urban, rural, white collar, blue collar, religious, not religious, educators, artists, scientists, spiritual leaders, self-employed, employees within large and small organizations, and retired people. As a whole, they live in all major regions of the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries around the world. They also range in age from 30 to 75. So I feel comfortable suggesting Unshaken Wonder as a gift for most people.

My two dear friends who couldn't make it through the book describe themselves as "100% all-in Trump supporters" during a time that's been exceedingly painful for them. They couldn't get past some of the pain that I and others in my community experienced in 2017 and 2018. They also love me enough that they refused to leave reviews on Amazon, fearing that their reviews would interfere with my book sales. Isn't that wonderful? Humans are amazing. So, if you're buying a gift for a friend or family member like these two brave friends of mine, then I suggest skipping this book and cooking them a meal and taking them out dancing or to a movie instead.

File Size : 2273 KB
Word Wise : Enabled
Print Length : 474 pages
ASIN : B07BZPB94J
Publication Date : April 17, 2018
Publisher : BookBaby; 1st Edition (April 17, 2018)
Enhanced Typesetting : Enabled
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Language: : English
Screen Reader : Supported
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,562,684 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #378 in Conduct of Life & Spirituality
- #530,320 in Religion & Spirituality (Books)

Customer Reviews:
17 ratings

Customer reviews

5 star		82%
4 star		9%
3 star 0% (0%)		0%
2 star		9%
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How are ratings calculated?

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Valerie V.

A wonderful guidebook for grown ups who live in the real world but refuse to give up wonder and joy!

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018

Verified Purchase

Unshaken Wonder should come with a warning label that says, Warning: This book may cause you to stay awake all night reading and playing. I opened my Kindle with the plan to just skim it and seriously could not put it down. I will pick it up over and over for a shot of inspiration along the way. It is filled with raw, real, inspiring and thought provoking essays. It is challenging and comforting in equal doses. There is little doubt that Lori Kane put her heart and soul into every word. The honest expression of pain and struggle is laced with generous amounts of humor and joy. It stirred in me the desire to rekindle wonder and delight in my life. I will be purchasing many of these as gifts for my friends so I will have playmates to follow the path this book provides for a life of unshaken wonder! Thank you, Lori, for being brave enough to share your stories of a life lived out loud.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Gina W.

What a gift this book is!

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018

Verified Purchase

What a gift this book is! A reminder that even in the darkest of days there is light. Much needed these days. I now read a little every day - play a little every day. Thank you for being so brave as to put this book out there.

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

DJGregory

Great book for finding the wonder life even when it seems missing

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018

Verified Purchase

I just finished reading Lori’s new book Unshaken Wonder, and it is such an uplifting book. For me these days it is easy to get frustrated and angry about all sorts of things in life and put that energy in the world, Lori has found a way to help us reengage our empathy, excitement and fun through an acceptance of wonder and play. As an artist, I have always love reading how other artist work and approach life. I have found comfort and knowledge from people like Julia Cameron, Anne Lamott and others. Much like Julia and Anne, Lori is willing to put both the good and the bad out there and talk about how it really is for them as artist and people. I also really like how her community is the world around her from the trees and nature out her window to the people in her life. It was an easy read with combination of story, essay, poetry and reflection. Above it all, in a time when her family was failing apart, she was still able to find the humor, good and wisdom to know that at the heart of the matter is our own story and how playful we want to live that story.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

chris t.

A book that's become a sweet companion...

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018

Verified Purchase

Lori Kane offers a resurgence of wonder to everyday life! In her gem of a book, she invites us to pay attention, to listen deeply, to weep and to wail – out loud. She reminds us that we need one another. What a relief to be given permission to get lost in the wonder of dear friends or a fern unfurling or devastated by our parents entering dementia or the grief of our forests disappearing. Life holds ambivalence – and Lori writes of this experience through the eyes of wisdom and wonder. Get ready to be shaken from your nose to your toes! And then try touching them to one another as a way to echo Lori’s sentiments – life is too short to be taken too seriously.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Catherine

Through several painful life changing events I had lost my wonder

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018

Verified Purchase

Through several painful life changing events I had lost my wonder. This book shook me to the core a fiilled my tear ducts to overflowing. Then I could hear the laughter of the sisters and the smile came out and I could feel the pure joy of the kindness of so many. The author makes living through the joyful and painful emotions of daily life a real possiblity for everyone. I recommend Unshaken Wonder to anyone seeking to find joy and a community to celebrate that joy.

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

RBrooks

Play is not just for kids.

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018

Verified Purchase

Lori Kane's new book "Unshaken Wonder" shook me to the core. How did we get to a place where play became only something that kids should do? Through Lori's mix of essays, poems, stories, and moments of raw emotion, she provides inspiration to the reader for how we as the next generation of elders can move through what life inevitably will throw at us. All of this while keeping play close at hand, finding wonder in every little thing, and having important conversations every damn day. Her writings made me laugh out loud, cry when she touched a nerve, and feel joy that I now better understand ---- I, too can be a playful elder! I can't wait to share Lori's book with my friends...to surround myself with play, to feel wonder.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Jane Fung

Learning to feel again

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018

Verified Purchase

Lately I’ve been feeling like I’ve been living life in grey tones. That it’s safer to be neutral about things, because neutral can’t hurt me. Somehow, unbeknownst to me, over the last several years of losing family members has caused me to lose the ability to really feel emotions of joy, wonder, and deep sadness. This led me to leave on a sabbatical to make space for me again. So, after a few ugly cries, I find myself sitting in Bali reading this book that is reminding me that it’s ok to let the color in. It’s ok to laugh and cry and stare in wonder at all the beauty around me. And that only by embracing the playful elders around me will I be able to manifest the unshaken wonder inside myself.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Diane

This book is changing my life.

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018

Verified Purchase

Unshaken Wonder has shaken up my outdated ways of being and given new and vibrant life to how I am with myself and how I engage in relationships with others, nature, and the world. In the style of Anne Lamont, Kane is forthright about the ongoing reality of loss and grief in our lives and how we can still live in joy and playfulness. Some self-help books skip discussions of how power, privilege and oppression operate in our lives. Kane’s book brings it all with gusto. I am engaging body, mind and spirit in playful and meaningful ways that are new to me: friendly with my emotions and embracing silliness and play. The wisdom in this book contributes to a deepened sense of appreciation for humanity in all its faults and a fierce belief that the change we need is available to us if we stay open, authentic, and engaged in wonder.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Top reviews from other countries

Maria McMahon

Refreshingly different look at life! Wonder is everywhere when you have the eyes to see it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2018

Verified Purchase

This is a wonderful book! It's a self-help book that's very different from most others out there. Refreshingly so. The author has a unique way of looking at life and finding joy and wonder where most of us forget to look. She has overcome a lot - three deaths close together, and the subsequent fallout within her family that left her and her sister reeling, but she found her way our and through her story, you learn that you too can overcome anything that life throws at you and find the wonder too. Highly recommended.
Maria McMahon
Author, Law of Attraction Shortcut Secrets
& A Pocketful of Thank You

See all reviews

Buying Options

OR

Buy for others

Buying and sending eBooks to others

Follow the Author

Similar authors to follow

Unshaken Wonder: Becoming Playful Elders Together Kindle Edition

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the Author

About the Author

Product details

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries