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Community Movie Offering Friday 1/24 7:30 P.M. Fairfax Women's Club

Community Movie Offering Friday 1/24 7:30 P.M. Fairfax Women's Club
I am hosting, along with Sustainable Fairfax and the Fairfax Volunteers
Griefwalker, A movie opening the conversation between life and everything before and after.
Come join us.
Discussion afterward with Dale Borglum, director of the Living Dying Project

here are some links to reviews such as
"It is hard to write a review after watching this movie. The depth and beauty is incredible. This movie should be shown in elementary schools. How one's life would be changed by watching this movie... One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen..."

"As he puts it on his website, orphanwisdom.com, “a culture addicted to security, comfort, and ‘be all you want to be,’ makes no time in its public or private life for sorrow or uncertainty or the end of things ... Our hearts elbow our lives out of the way in their headlong search for safe landings and getting their needs met. But what would our culture look like and how would our children think of us 50 years from now, if we began to honour and teach grief as a skill, as vital to our personal and cultural and spiritual life as the skill of loving?”

http://www.amazon.com/Griefwalker-Stephen-Jenkinson/product-reviews/B003XRQ2PY

http://www.personamedia.com/personamedia/Griefwalker_reviews.html

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