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    Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor, And Play for All Ages
    Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor, And Play for All Ages
    Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor, And Play for All Ages
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    Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor, And Play for All Ages

    By Kathy Laurenhue, Bron Roberts and Sharon Wall

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    Creating Delight is a mildly subversive, highly practical and entertaining alternative to the gaggle of gratitude promoters who seem a bit too serious about adding joy to your life. While the authors are in absolute agreement with the inspiring experts who tout the importance of gratitude, this book builds on their work by connecting it with humor and play. It broadens the possibilities, offers a lighthearted attitude, and provides dozens of specific ideas for sharing the pleasures of being alive.

    Whether you serve students/children, older adults, or your family and friends, use this book as a guide to illustrate concrete ways you can help them find delight.

    Delight has connotations of not only happiness, but unexpected pleasure. Find it in this book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 20, 2017
    ISBN9780978636258
    Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor, And Play for All Ages

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      Creating Delight - Kathy Laurenhue

      Pure joy jumps from every page of this inspiring book: Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor and Play for all Ages. The vast experience of the authors, Kathy Laurenhue with Bron Roberts and Sharon Wall is evident in the rich content and abundant resources found in this gem. This is that rare kind of book that can be flipped open to any page treating the reader to ideas that are sure to delight. Colorful pictures and creative designs emerge on every single page of this captivating treasure. From crafting gratitude trees to reflections on sharing rituals, this book is a must read for all interested in finding and living life with great joy. This book has my highest recommendation.

      —MARY KAY MORRISON, AUTHOR OF USING HUMOR TO MAXIMIZE LIVING, EDUCATOR, CONSULTANT, PAST-PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED AND THERAPEUTIC HUMOR

      While Creating Delight certainly does that in a big way with lots of easy-to-create gratitude trees and other fun projects, what spoke to me most about this book was the brief chapter on Giving and Receiving Compliments.

      I was struck by the words in this section because it is such a simple idea, and one that many authors miss, when seeking more ways to be grateful.

      It is so easy to give a compliment or praise someone. It takes nothing away from you yet provides the receiver with a joyful and uplifting moment. And, although I haven’t done any scientific research on this, I bet that the giver of the compliment is enriched too.

      For this idea alone, this book is a godsend.

      —ALLEN KLEIN, AUTHOR OF YOU CAN’T RUIN MY DAY AND NUMEROUS OTHER BOOKS

      This book as its name implies, is delightful! Different from gratitude and the book is a lovely reminder to look for or create delight in our lives. After reading the book I started my own delight journal, making notes about the delights in my everyday life. There are so many creative ways to show delight, easy, inexpensive and brings us back from the negative news that seems to be what makes headlines, our constant check on the cell phone, and how many of us are tied to the computer. Thank you for this wonderful reminder to look for and find joy in the many delights that surround us all.

      — JOYCE SIMARD, AUTHOR OF THE NAMASTE CARE PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA

      Creating Delight is an uplifting and enjoyable read that has universal appeal. The author not only connects gratitude to humor and play but provides techniques for giving and receiving compliments for those who find this social skill sometimes awkward. Chapter 3 focuses on how to visually display gratitude. The colorful photos made me want to run to the nearest craft store and begin a new project … I loved the section describing rituals and have added some of the suggestions to my own gratitude practice. The resource pages are invaluable and encourage the reader to continue their gratitude journey.

      I found this book to be absolutely deLIGHTful!

      —JILL KNOX, HEALTHY HUMOR AWARD-WINNER, PEACE ACTIVIST, FOUNDER OF THE FUNNY SIDE

      This wonderful book is chockful of fun and creative ideas. Just reading it fills me with happiness and creative energies. I especially liked all the photos showing creations. The book is really well done!

      —KAREN LOVE, GERONTOLOGIST, CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT DEMENTIA ACTION ALLIANCE

      Creating Delight: Connecting Gratitude, Humor, and Play for All Ages By Kathy Laurenhue, M.A., with Bronwyn Roberts and Sharon Wall

      ISBN: 0-9786362-4-4 – Creating Delight - print

      eISBN: 978-0-9786362-5-8

      © 2016 Kathy Laurenhue

      Kathy@WiserNow.com

      www.WiserNow.com

      All rights reserved

      CHAPTER 1

      Defining and connecting elements of delight — Why we wrote this book

      CHAPTER 2

      Starting with the basics: Giving and receiving compliments

      CHAPTER 3

      Visual varieties of creating expressions of delight and gratitude

      CHAPTER 4

      Alternative creating delight rituals

      Resources

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      People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

      Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes.

      All is a miracle.

      — THICH NHAT HANH

      A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

      — PARAPHRASED FROM THE TALMUD

      Happiness never decreases by being shared.

      — BUDDHA

      Among the synonyms for delight are these: great pleasure, happiness, joy, bliss, enchantment, charm, elation, and amusement. We could have used several of those words in our title, and indeed debated doing so, but I (Kathy) advocated for delight because I have always been partial to words that are related to light—daylight, sunlight, moonlight, starlight, twilight, candlelight, highlights, lightheartedness, lightness of being, enlighten. They all seem to bring an uplifting clarity to life. Furthermore, the word delight has an element of unexpected surprise to it—something likely to bring laughter and joy and a sense of being connected to others. If we can be delighted

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