This is the first authoritative account of the history of the wooden bowl. It details evidence of the turners craft dating back 4000 years, and looks at the development of...
"The Wooden Bowl is a terrific book. Just reading it slows me down, reminds me in the most simple quiet language that I'm here--now. How sweet! I love the way Strand writes." --Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
The Wooden Bowl: Moral Stories
The Wooden Bowl is a lovely story which talks about family ties and the respect which should be given to elders. It is the story of a lonely old man who seeks love and affection from his only son.
The Wooden Bowl is a folktale whose message reaches out to child and adult alike. It is a story about family, and about tolerance ... and about growing old.
The only roundness in her life came in the form of her beloved oatmeal cookies, until the day she received a wooden bowl in the mail. That wooden bowl begins an adventure that will change Faith's life.
'The Wooden Bowl' offers a way of being present - to ourselves, to nature, to other people. Clark Strand presents meditation, for the first time, not as some unattainable Grail, but as something as simple and available as a wooden bowl.
The story unfolds around the events leading up to the great blizzard of 1888 and its effect upon the lives of the inhabitants in the small, remote mountain village of Twin Bridges, located in the North Country of New York State.
Clark Strand presents meditation not as some unattainable Grail, but something as simple and available as a wooden bowl.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.