This Week at Crazy Wisdom

at Crazy Wisdom Tea Room

8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - No Cover Charge

Every Friday and Saturday night Crazy Wisdom invites you to Tea and Tunes. Not a tea drinker? No problem! Crazy Wisdom offer a wide selection of coffee drinks. (while you're here, don't forget to try some of our tasty treats as well!)

Friday, January 20

Gwenyth Hayes Duo

Bassist/Vocalist, recording artist and Ann Arbor native Gwenyth Hayes is an ever-evolving diverse professional musician never bound by genre or generation. Recently returning to her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan after a four-year stint of playing aggressive Chicago blues, Gwenyth has joined up with the area's most well-known and respected veteran guitarists to explore the softer side of music. As the Gwenyth Hayes Duothey play original jazzy arrangements of a unique repertoire consisting of torch songs, classic ballads, blues standards, and popular songs from all genres and eras.

Saturday, January 21

Indian Music with John Churchville

Local tabla player John Churchville hosts an evening of Indian classical, light classical, fusion, and folk music in the wonderful Crazy Wisdom Tearoom. Come hear the sounds of a musical tradition that dates back over 2000 years. John has performed this music all over the United States and India, including the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Hiawatha Music Festival, as a presenter for the Michigan Music Educators Conference, the North American Bengali Conference, and as a featured performer with the Michigan Pops Orchestra. Now he brings his friends Dan Piccolo, Scott Brady, Prashanth Gururaja, Atmaram Chetainya and others to the tearoom for a monthly Indian music night that will include the sounds of the tabla, sitar, bansuri, violin and vocals. www.johnchurchville.com

New Music CDs at Crazy Wisdom

Songs from Before cd
by Fionnuala Sherry
From the violinit of the duo Secret Garden comes a new solo cd featuring traditional Irish tunes with a contemporary flair.
$16.98

Upcoming Events

Drummunity Circles hosted by Lori Fithian * Jan. 17, Feb. 16, March 14, April 19; 7-9 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room * Get your hands on a drum and add your sound and spirit to the community groove. All are welcome to join in the circle. No experience necessary. Drums available. Free. Call 426-7818; lorifithian@mac.com or drummunity.com.

Community HU Chant with Local Members of Eckankar · Fridays, 6:30-7:15 p.m. · All faiths (and agnostics!) are welcome to join this weekly, free get-together to sing one of the ancient names for God - HU. Popular in many cultures, the singing of HU is an undirected prayer to harmonize the consciousness with and open the heart to God's love. Free. Call John at 320-2010; john.zissis@sbcglobal.net or eckankar.org.

Sunday, January 22nd:
CRAZY WISDOM CLOSED FOR ANNUAL INVENTORY

Healing With Meditation with Barry Lipscomb * Jan. 23, Feb. 6 & 20, March 5 & 19, April 2 & 16: 7:30-9 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room * Reduce stress, focus attention, keep you grounded, help maintain clarity of purpose, clear barriers to goals and connect you will a deeper awareness of your own being. Sessions include explanation before guiding you through an experience of your own energy body and followed by guided healing meditation. $10 per session. Pre-register at 917-587-3775; barry@barrylipscomb.com or barrylipscomb.com.

Great New Reads!

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January 23rd, 2012

Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up
(Hardcover)
By Harriet Lerner
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Coupling up is complicated---Dr. Harriet Lerner's marriage rules are not.
Following a unique format perfect for today's world, the renowned author of The Dance of Anger gives us just over 100 rules that cover all the hot spots in long-term relationships.
Marriage Rules offers new solutions to age-old problems ("He won't talk"/"She doesn't want sex") as well as modern ones (your partner's relationship to technology.) You'll also learn how to:
*Calm things down and warm them up
*Talk straight and fight fair
*Listen well as a spiritual practice
*Connect with a distant partner
*Survive the unique challenges of children, stepchildren and difficult- laws
*Follow a 12-step program to overcome defensiveness
*Know how and when to draw the line
*Take back your marriage when things fall apart
Marriage Rules is a treasure chest of lively, practical advice to help you navigate your couple relationship with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction. If one person in a couple follows ten rules of his or her choice, it will generate a major, positive change. All that's required is a genuine wish for a better relationship and a willingness to practice.

Invisible Men: Men's Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence
(Hardcover)
By Michael Addis
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Award-winning research psychologist Michael E. Addis identifies and provides answers surrounding the long-unspoken epidemic of silence and vulnerability in men

Drawing on scientific research, as well as his own personal and clinical experience, award-winning research psychologist Michael E. Addis describes in this book an epidemic of personal, relational, and societal problems that are caused by the widespread invisibility of men's vulnerabilities. From increasing rates of suicide among men, to alcohol abuse, to violence and school shootings, his research reveals the continued cost of staying silent when emotional, physical, or spiritual pain enters men's lives.
In the spirit of such bestsellers as William Pollack's Real Boys, Addis identifies the specific problems that result from men's silence and invisibility, what causes them, and how they can be changed. Addis provides readers with compelling stories of the causes and consequences of silence and invisibility in real men's lives. Invisible Men shows both male and female readers how they can break through the gauntlets that appear to protect men, but in reality cause severe harm to men, women, and families.

Spells for Tough Times: Crafting Hope When Faced with Life's Thorniest Challenges
(Paperback)
By Kerri Connor
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Looking for some magical help for those unpredictable curveballs that life throws your way? Spells for Tough Times is a unique and comprehensive toolkit for coping with and rising above just about any difficulty--whether it's a minor annoyance, embarrassing quandary, or unexpected crisis.
Refreshingly positive and practical, this magic book features over 150 easy-to-perform spells and rituals that address specific problems we all commonly face. Organized by major areas of concern, you'll find customizable spells related to personal habits and emotions, family and children, relationships, pets, health, house and home, career, finances, legal disputes, world events, death, and handling grief.
Compatible with all spiritual paths and levels of spellwork experience, these simple yet potent spells will help you find peace, let go of stress, and survive every bump in the road.
--Reconnect with an estranged relative--Banish an unwanted crush--Speed recovery from a serious illness--Move on after divorce or infidelity--Heal from the loss of a loved one or a pet--Manage the pressure of being overextended at work
From layoffs and foreclosures to child bullying and identity theft, this book combines magical and mundane solutions to help you navigate life's hurdles and hardships with grace, serenity, and hope.

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
(Hardcover)
By Charles J. Shields
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: "O.K." For the next year-a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last-Shields had access to Vonnegut and his letters.
And So It Goes is the culmination of five years of research and writing-the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high-school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Vonnegut's concise collection of personal essays, Man Without a Country, published in 2006, spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 300,000 copies to date. The twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time.

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