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

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by Lori Kane (Author)

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"All the grownups in my family relative to me just flat out stopped behaving like grownups for a while. For what felt like years, actually."

This book explores what it takes to become the kind of elder that we---and our world---need when the elders and adults around us appear to be failing us.

"A playful elder is a collective being who sheds all faith in the belief that human beings can be unimportant or disconnected from life, because playful elders are reminded daily that life herself doesn't work that way. That's the lie of human adulthood that playful elders--playful anyone really--debunk."

Researcher-turned-essayist-and-poet, Lori Kane, EdD, stays with the unapologetic playfulness, unapologetic pain, and unapologetic curiosity within herself and others to encounter a powerful form of wonder daily that many adults today rarely encounter and so fail to believe in. Kane defines unshaken wonder, broadens and redefines playful elder, and explores what it takes to be a playful elder in an age of increasing polarization. With a mix of deeply personal research, community storytelling, practice and game sharing, essays, poetry, and openness, Kane demonstrates letting go of an angry, exhausted self into the always-present embrace of the playful elder community.

The book follows her journey as she moves deeper into the spiritual heart of the playful elder community. Emboldened by others as she goes, Kane uncovers much-needed reminders of the brave connected beings---creators, namers, listeners, learners, unlearners, noticers of the invisible, truth speakers, game makers, playmates, empaths, violence dissipaters, voice lifters, friend ships, poets, and planet changers---we really are.

This is not a distant planet spun from the brilliant mind of Ursula K. Le Guin. This is right here, on earth, woven from the threads of Kane's own friends, family, neighbors, muses, and their communities.

"Playful elders live a different truth. Life herself listens. She learns and unlearns. She speaks. My friend Bernie DeKoven calls her 'all-embracing life.' We're all important and connected here. All loved. All listened to. All lifted up by others. All mourned for when we go. We all hold powerful wonder within us. The earth supports us all. Even when we can't see it and feel it for ourselves, life is embracing us. That's how life really works. Life wants us here. And she wants the real us: playful, well-rested, and calling BS on the stale beliefs and practices of adulthood that sink us when we believe the lie that we can't let go of them. We're being called now to hold on to what matters most and to let go of all the rest together. We can do this. I've seen it. I see it every day now. We are this world, and we're amazing."

"moved to tears, dear Lori. sweet, sweet tears"
- Bernie DeKoven, author of A Well-Played Game, The Playful Path, and Junkyard Sports

Length: 459 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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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.

About the Author

Lori Kane is an essayist, poet, coworking and workshop space host, occasional blogger, serious home canner, lazy gardener, Alzheimer's care partner, and a mystery, fantasy, and science fiction enthusiast. She lives on Whidbey Island, Washington, USA and works at Silly Dog Studios with husband Daniel, Eva the dog, and Joe, Bella, and Batman the cats along side the chatty trees of Brakenwood forest who suggest that Silly Humans Studios would have been a more apt name for their home and business.

Product details

File Size: 2273 KB
Print Length: 459 pages
Publisher: BookBaby; 1 edition (April 17, 2018)
Publication Date: April 17, 2018
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07BZPB94J
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,770 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Religion & Spirituality > Spirituality > Inspirational > Conduct of Life
- #11676 in Books > Religion & Spirituality

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Valerie V.

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

April 18, 2018

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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.

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DJGregory

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

April 19, 2018

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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.

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chris t.

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

April 19, 2018

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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.

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Catherine

Through several painful life changing events I had lost my wonder

April 18, 2018

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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.

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Gina W.

What a gift this book is!

April 18, 2018

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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.

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RBrooks

Play is not just for kids.

April 18, 2018

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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.

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Jane Fung

Learning to feel again

April 19, 2018

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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.

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Diane

This book is changing my life.

April 21, 2018

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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.

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