Bibliograph

Dandelions blooming in the cracks of sidewalks, stories from the bedside of the dying, Amita Lhamo

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Label

Dandelions blooming in the cracks of sidewalks, stories from the bedside of the dying, Amita Lhamo

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dandelions blooming in the cracks of sidewalks

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Amita Lhamo

Sub title

stories from the bedside of the dying

Summary

So often, the thought of death evokes our worst fears. We anticipate the opposite of anything we call living. Yet, something different happens when we invite death into the conversation. It enters a panoply of experience that includes gratitude, love, joy and wonder. Death reveals these gifts as often as tragedy and pain. By the bedside of the dying, we learn an intimacy that includes the entirety of the human experience. We open rather than fight or run. We gaze into the eyes of death to ask what shines through all the brokenness. What remains? Amita Lhamo uses her luminous stories to reveal the power of simple human kindness and the profundity of being. Within such places, souls peek through the soft spaces of broken hearts like dandelions blooming in the cracks of sidewalks. No matter which way we turn, we find one garden, one ground-we discover the wonder of any heart

Target audience

adult

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