A House Blessing - Hardcover

Poltarnees, Welleran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883211042 ISBN 13: 9781883211042

Publisher: Blue Lantern Books, 1994

Synopsis

This book blesses the physical house and the protection it offers, wishing for its inhabitants ""a full portion of life's beauty."" It then grows more specific, hoping for kindness, companionship, peace, orderliness and the happiness that overflows into celebration. Poltarnees, drawing upon his library of antique images, has added pictures which best give each thought its most vivid reality. This book makes an excellent gift for any house.

About this title

About the Author:

WELLERAN POLTARNEES has a lifelong love of gardens. His first memory is falling out of his baby carriage and landing on a bed of odorous white flowers which not only kept him from injury, but made the experience a sensual delight. He collects books about, and pictures of, gardens -- but there are few timeless things that he does not so honor. He uses a book called Great Gardens of the World as a guide whenever he travels, and, with the exception of the Boboli Gardens in Florence, which came highly recommended and which he found monotonous -- the gardens have always refreshed him. His favorite time for gardens is night. His favorite garden music is Manuel De Falla's ""Nights in the Gardens of Spain"", and his favorite garden poem is ""The Garden"" by Andrew Marvell.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Make this house warm in the winter, and by the fires of an open hearth let comradeship and imagination flower. When the sun is ablaze, here shall coolness and shade hold sway. Let this be the place of peace, offering refuge from chaos and doubt, and manifesting in its orderliness, a model for the larger world. I wish for all of you the blessings of the night, which blanket us with calm, and through its burning stars and liquid moonlight allows our hearts to flower. May beauty reign here, and lovely objects renew us by their silence and perfection.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Lantern Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1883211042
• ISBN 13: 9781883211042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32