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Nothing Gold Can Stay

The Colors of Grief

Mark Belletini (Mark Belletini)

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English
Skinner House Books
09 June 2015
These honest and poetic essays serve as a prism, revealing the distinct colors and manifestations of grief in our lives.

In twenty-two simple yet profound reflections, seasoned minister Mark Belletini explores the many and varied forms of grief. He addresses the way we respond to loss of people in our lives, loss of love, loss of focus, and loss of the familiar-understanding that grief is as much a part of our lives as our breathing. Belletini uses specific and personal stories to open up to the universal experience. Nothing Gold Can Stay is a gift of awareness, showing how the shades of grief serve our deepest needs.
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Imprint:   Skinner House Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 10mm
ISBN:   9781558967472
ISBN 10:   1558967478
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Prelude: Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Opening Words Grief and Sorrow Grief and Weariness Interlude: Redemption Songs by Kevin Young Grief and Ritual Grief and Theology Grief and Music Grief and Depression Grief and Memory Grief and Focus Interlude: Celestial Music by Louise Gluck Grief and Animals Grief and Relief Grief and Life Grief and Philosophy Grief and Moving Grief and Anger Grief and Astonishment Grief and Gratitude Grief and Guilt Grief and Culture Grief and Relationships Grief and Dance Postlude

Mark Belletini is completing his thirty-seventh and final year in parish ministry. He has served at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, Ohio, for the past seventeen. He previously served two congregations in California, and was chair of the commission that produced the Unitarian Universalist Association hymnbook Singing the Living Tradition. He is also the author of Sonata for Voice and Silence.

Reviews for Nothing Gold Can Stay: The Colors of Grief

""Mark Belletini brings his tears, his passion and his deeply literate quality of beauty to these reflections on grief. He gives us permission to grieve fully and share our grief as a tribute to our Love. This book will inspire deep conversation among us. It is a gift."" —Laurel Hallman, co-editor, Not for Ourselves Alone: Theological Essays on Relationship “Reading Mark Belletini's reflection on ‘Grief and Animals,’ I thought of Maggie the border collie, who, sensing my desolation when my sister was dying, lavished her attention on me. I read on and broken friendships came to mind. As memories of family and friends and of other kinds of deaths caught me by surprise, I kept stopping to cry and remember and say ‘of course.’ Take your time reading this book. It needs to be savored. It is important for what it will remind you of, and for creating a space and moment in your life to grieve again so you can discover grief's companions, joy and gratitude."" —Mark Morrison-Reed, author of The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism


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