I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the importance of feeding the spirit. It’s easy to go through the days of our lives caught up in the need to feed the body and its many cravings, whether we are the bold and the beautiful, or just the young and the restless, because as the world turns life has to be more than a soap opera, right? Don’t we yearn for more than dark shadows, somewhere away from the edge of night, seeking another world, a world that’s not filled with desperate housewives?!

What feeds your spirit? Yes, you, and please stop watching General Hospital for a moment. Just record it and watch it later. Or, better yet, let me give you the recap:

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In two timeless Christmas stories from the past two centuries, misanthropes Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch show their contempt for the world’s greatest holiday season.

In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843), the heartless banker Scrooge’s response to “Merry Christmas” is “Bah! Humbug!” For Scrooge, Christmas is a fraud.

In the 1957 Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the Grinch, his heart “two sizes too small,” tries to “prevent Christmas from coming” by stealing all the presents from Whoville. Scrooge and the Grinch have much to learn, and they do, because these are stories of redemption.

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This intriguing full-color comic book style story chronicles Father Damien's childhood and his eventual journey to Moloka‘i, Hawaii. Damien's world-famous story is told through vivid images that depict the works and achievements of this miracle worker. Stunning cover artwork by cherished islan [...]
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The mele contained in this book are fundamental to hula Pele and reflect a vast and dynamic Hawai'i worldview. These mele have been preserved for centuries via oral traditions, the sacred hula of Hawai'i, and, more recently, in twentieth-century written texts. Lele Kawa offers original translations [...]
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Robert A. Johnson, bestselling author of He, She, We, and other psychology classics, shares a lifetime of insights and experiences in this easy-to-read book on psychological projection — seeing traits in others that are, in fact, our own. Drawing on early Christianity, medieval alchemy, depth psyc [...]
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Collection of original witty and inspired sayings by bestselling author Lama Surya Das

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The Wisdom of Sustainability continues E. F. Schumacher’s groundbreaking work in Buddhist economics.

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2009 Ka Palapala Po’okela Award Winner FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTRIGUED BY ROADS LESS TRAVELED… Glory by the Wayside will take you on a tour of old Hawaii – away from the resorts and crowded beaches to glorious settings of incomparable beauty. From the Victorian architecture of St. Benedict’s, wi [...]
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