Living in harmony."Music can make things happen," says editor Julie JULIE Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators JULIE Jena University Language and Information Engineering (Germany) Middleton Middleton, city (1991 pop. 51,373), Rochdale metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area on the Irk River. Manufactures include cotton, silks, chemicals, plastics, and soap. , who believes the more than 400 songs, chants, rounds and hymns compiled in Songs for Earthlings: A Green Spirituality Songbook are the key not only to entertaining evenings of music, but also a path to understanding the Earth. From Pete Seeger's classic "Turn! Turn! Turn!" to the not-quite-so-classic "You Can't Clearcut Your Way to Heaven;' this book is truly a diverse collection with a universal theme--planetary kinship kinship, relationship by blood (consanguinity) or marriage (affinity) between persons; also, in anthropology and sociology, a system of rules, based on such relationships, governing descent, inheritance, marriage, extramarital sexual relations, and sometimes . It begins with a brief lesson on reading music, ends with short biographies of the contributors, and is peppered with inspirational in·spi·ra·tion·al adj. 1. Of or relating to inspiration. 2. Providing or intended to convey inspiration. 3. Resulting from inspiration. quotes throughout. "Take it to the piano" Middleton says, "Sing [the songs] with your kids. Sing them to the trees in the yard. And just see if the world doesn't look a bit brighter." Available for $27 from Emerald Earth Publishing, (215)886-3515. |
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