Lost Borders Press is the premier independent publisher of books on modern rites of passage and initiation. The Press was created, and its publications are offered, to support the growing number of youth and adults looking for meaningful ways to move from one life stage to another: child to adult, single to married, adult to elder, and the greatest change of all, living into the unknown of dying.
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ANNOUNCES THE NEW BOOK RELEASE OF:
MARLEY RIDES
by Jennifer Hart
"They gave me six months to live,
and I gave 'em three and a half years of living."
-- Marley Jacob Pratt (1985-2003)
This story is not just about a young cowboy who contracted terminal lung cancer at the age of 15.
It is not just about his family.
It is about a network of people who changed the life and death of a boy, and who were courageous enough to be changed by him.
Marley Jacob Pratt was told he was one of the youngest on record to have squamous lung cancer, and that it would likely kill him before he turned 16. Marley’s objective was to prove the doctors wrong by packing in as much living as possible.
This story focuses on how Marley learned to ride the waves of life and death. But in truth, this story is about all of us. We will all encounter adversity. We will all face death, and the challenge we all face is how to live well.
Narrated by his mother, Marley Rides also contains e-mails sent to the ever-growing number of people who became part of “Marley's Network,” and stories by a variety of people affected by this strange young man. The unusual format of Marley Rides includes over 100 photographs and quotes, and is designed to make readers of all ages and backgrounds feel the intensity of the joy and pain life offers us all.
Marley is gone but his story lives on.
www.MarleyRides.com
RECENTLY RELEASED AND NEWLY AVAILABLE FILM:
SOLACE: WISDOM OF THE DYING
A documentary produced and directed by Camille Adair
SOLACE: Wisdom of the Dying grew from Camille Adair's intimate experiences with people facing the end of their lives. As a hospice nurse, Camille has worked closely with patients, families, hospitals, cancer treatment centers and many healthcare professionals to address the needs of dying people as well as the needs of the healthcare community in being able to integrate the end of ones life as a natural and sacred human process rather than as a medical failure.
SOLACE offers a rich blend of perspectives from experts, such as authors Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Roshi Joan Halifax, Larry and Barbara Dossey, Denys Cope, Meredith Little and Scott Eberle, to the practical and authentic wisdom born from everyday people facing their mortality.
In 2004 Camille Adair and Grant Taylor, videographer and editor, began filming SOLACE: Wisdom of the Dying in Northern New Mexico. Since the beginning of this project both Camille and Grant have deepened their passion for the transformative process that arises when art meets healing intention. This film is the beginning of a series of multimedia projects intended to support new paradigms in healthcare, being human and raising consciousness.
www.solacethemovie.com
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