Laura's List:  Books for Women
Inspire, Empower Women                           June 2011
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Summer Book Lovers
Fiction Lovers' Read
For Entrepreneurs
Quote of the Month

Angels
"Angels in the early morning May be seen the dews among,
Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying:
Do the buds to them belong? Angels when the sun is hottest. 
May be seen the sands among,
Stooping, plucking, sighing, flying;
Parched the flowers they bear along."

-Emily Dickinson
When Emily died at age 56, her nearly 2000 poems were unknown except to a few friends and relatives.
Recent Events
Book Chat 


On the recent bus trip to NYC, women shared their favorite reads including:

  • The Help (Rumored to be in production for a made for tv movie!)
  • The Lemon Tree (My Mom's favorite book)
  • Eleanor and Sarah (About Eleanor Roosevelt)  
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Laura Ponticello is an inspirational speaker, author of real life stories, and national book reviewer.  If you're inspired to share your thoughts on these or any other meaningful books email me at [email protected].
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My grandmother used to say, "that which we tend with love and care will surely blossom."  As an avid gardener, there are times when I seek refuge and solitude in my garden; I embrace Mother Earth and throw my worries away to the wind.

 

I recently traveled to the New York Botanical Garden (in Bronx, NY) where roses were in full bloom.  Amidst the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, with over 4,000 roses and more than 680 varieties, one of the most beautiful rose gardens I've ever seen; I realized how we as women can cultivate our own beauty, each of us uniquely defined by our spirit and that which we tend to in ourselves can flourish. I invite you to stop 'n' smell the roses in your life! Inhale the beauty of a flowering plant, pause to see the sunset, meditate for a few moments in nature.

Women are cultivators because we have the power to plant seeds of hope for ourselves and others.   

--Laura Ponticello


Laura's List: Books for Women
Sowing Seeds of Hope- The Bridge that Connects Women
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Summer Book Lovers....


Georgia BottomsGeorgia Bottoms Book Cover

by Mark Childress 

 

For those of you who love a southern fried novel, this book is hilarious. Publishers Weekly shares "Sassy Southern belle Georgia has a lot of secrets: a rotation of gentleman callers with unique sexual needs, a mother with a tenuous hold on reality, and a lucrative (if dodgy) business of selling at a huge mark-up the folk art quilts she buys and passes off as her own creations. But then 9/11 comes along, Georgia's world of naughty innocence is changed forever, and all the plates she once spun so effortlessly in midair come crashing down: her illegitimate black son shows up on her doorstep; her best friend and town mayor, Krystal, loses her job; her demented mom and drunken brother become increasingly errant; and one of her boyfriends-a spiteful preacher-has an unfortunate attack of conscience and intends to publicly confess his affair and simultaneously condemn poor Georgia to hell. Childress (One Mississippi) is sassy magnolia lit's Truman Capote-sharply observant, unrelentingly honest, and downright hilarious-and his Georgia peach is the freshest bad girl to rise from the South since Scarlett O'Hara."

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Still HOT!!!....

 

The Help

The Help

by Katherine Stockett

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss.  She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger.  Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

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Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
by Geneen Roth 

Geneen begins this book with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. Geneen Roth is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestselling When Food is Love, and The Craggy Hole in My Heart And The Cat Who Fixed It, A Memoir. She has been teaching groundbreaking workshops and retreats for over thirty years. Roth is a contributor to many publications from Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping to O:The Oprah Magazine, and has appeared on numerous national shows including Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, The View and NPR's Talk of the Nation. She lives in northern California with her husband.

For Entrepreneurs

STUCK 12 Steps Up the Leadership Ladder
by Sandra Ford Walston  

For women of all professions, this unique guide demonstrates how women can achieve life changing personal and professional breakthroughs by recognizing the 12 steps of leadership. Focused on courageous leadership by a contemporary activist for women, writer, Sandra Ford Walston.

Our Price: $19.95

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Stella Maris Retreat and Renewal Center Skaneateles

August 1-6

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Stella Maris in the Summer!

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