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    Family Celebrations: Poems, Toasts, and Traditions for Every Occasion
    Family Celebrations: Poems, Toasts, and Traditions for Every Occasion
    Family Celebrations: Poems, Toasts, and Traditions for Every Occasion
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    Family Celebrations: Poems, Toasts, and Traditions for Every Occasion

    By June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling

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    Family Celebrations offers over 240 inspiring and uplifting selections for everyday occasions as well as special events, including holidays, weddings, graduations, housewarmings, and more. The diverse toasts, poems, and rituals offered here cultivate a sense of gratitude while enriching the family bond.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781449499907
    Family Celebrations: Poems, Toasts, and Traditions for Every Occasion
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    June Cotner

    June Cotner is the author of the celebrated Graces, Bedside Prayers, Get Well Wishes, Animal Blessings and Family Celebrations. She lives with her husband, two wayward dogs, and two stray cats in Poulsbo, Washington, just outside of Seattle.

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    • 4/5
      Family Celebrations by June Cotner & Nancy Tupper Ling is a charming collection of toasts, poems, blessings, and other traditions organised by occasion. These range from meal graces to holidays to major life points, and everything between. This book is perfect when you need some quick inspiration. It's not bound by one religion or spirituality, which I liked. Aside from the proverbs and quotes, the rest can be tailored to your individual needs. ***Many thanks to the Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

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    Family Celebrations - June Cotner

    also by june cotner

    Amazing Graces

    Animal Blessings

    Baby Blessings

    Back to Joy

    Bedside Prayers

    Bless the Beasts

    Bless the Day

    Christmas Blessings

    Comfort Prayers

    Dog Blessings

    Earth Blessings

    Forever in Love

    Garden Blessings

    Get Well Wishes

    Graces

    Gratitude Prayers

    Heal Your Soul, Heal the World

    The Home Design Handbook

    House Blessings

    Looking for God in All the Right Places

    Miracles of Motherhood

    Mothers and Daughters

    Pocket Prayers

    Say a Little Prayer: A Journal

    Serenity Prayers

    Soar! Follow Your Dreams

    Teen Sunshine Reflections

    Toasts: The Perfect Words for Every Occasion

    To Have and to Hold

    We Are Women

    Wedding Blessings

    Wishing You Well

    also by nancy tupper ling

    Character

    Coming Unfrozen

    Double Happiness

    Laughter in My Tent: A Woman’s

    Search for Family

    My Sister, Alicia May

    The Story I’ll Tell

    Toasts: The Perfect Words for Every Occasion

    The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful

    from june cotner:

    For my family and my friends—

    two of life’s greatest blessings

    from nancy tupper ling:

    For my father, Russell L. Tupper,

    who showed unconditional love to all

    Soli Deo Gloria

    contents

    Letter to Readers

    Thanks

    All-Occasion Toasts

    Graces & Mealtimes

    Prayers & Blessings

    Birthdays

    Weddings

    Babies & Christenings

    Anniversaries

    Graduations

    Housewarmings

    Family Reunions

    Memorial Services

    Holidays

    New Year

    Valentine’s Day

    St. Patrick’s Day

    Passover

    Easter

    Mother’s Day

    Memorial Day

    Father’s Day

    Fourth of July

    Labor Day

    Halloween

    Thanksgiving

    Chanukah

    Christmas

    Kwanzaa

    Appreciating Siblings

    Family Traditions

    Everyday Joys

    Special

    Legacies

    Benedictions

    Author Index

    Permissions and Acknowledgments

    About the Co-Authors

    letter to readers

    We gather in gratitude—

    May our present, past and future

    Be honored and blessed.

    May we, as family,

    Be stitched together as

    One heart, one home—

    One everlasting love.

    annie dougherty

    In many ways, Annie Dougherty’s blessing reflects the essence of my latest anthology. Family Celebrations is a collection of poems and graces, toasts, and blessings, along with family traditions, all stitched together in love. The selections cultivate gratefulness for family life and bring a freshness and appreciation for one’s own faith, while nurturing and enriching the family bond. The carefully chosen words speak to the heart and to the soul.

    The idea for Family Celebrations originated three years ago when I discussed the concept with my Toasts co-author, Nancy Tupper Ling. We felt it would be important to compile a book that could be used by families for everyday graces and special occasions. We wanted the book to offer selections for family celebrations such as birthdays and graduations; weddings and christenings; and meaningful prayers for memorial services. Here you’ll find over 240 pieces for every family gathering. The selections are inspiring, uplifting, and fitting for most faith traditions. My desire was to create a diverse work by blending both contemporary authors such as Amma, Barbara Crooker, Lori Eberhardy, Susan J. Erickson, Charles Ghigna, and Arlene Gay Levine with traditional favorites including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Khalil Gibran, Dag Hammarskjöld, Rumi, and William Shakespeare. Each one is suitable to be read aloud. How exciting it will be to discover new family traditions that may soon become your own!

    With Toasts: The Perfect Words to Celebrate Every Occasion I shared co-authorship with Nancy Tupper Ling. I am thrilled to be combining talents again for Family Celebrations. Nancy is an author, poet, and librarian whose children’s picture books have been published by Lee and Low Books (The Story I’ll Tell), Chronicle Books (Double Happiness), and will be forthcoming with Penguin Young Readers (The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful). She won the 2005 Writer’s Digest Grand Prize for her poem White Birch. Chosen from over 18,000 selections, her entry was the first time a poem won over all other categories, including screenplays, short stories, and nonfiction.

    Our hope is for all of us to gather in gratitude and treasure our loved ones through Family Celebrations. May these inspiring words bless you and your family and bring more love and closeness to your family gatherings and everyday life.

    To families everywhere!

    June Cotner

    (www.junecotner.com)

    Nancy Tupper Ling

    (www.nancytupperling.com)

    thanks

    As co-authors, Nancy and I are deeply grateful to our agents, Anne Marie O’Farrell and Denise Marcil at Marcil-O’Farrell Literary, who helped us shape our book into content that would appeal to a wide range of families. We would also like to thank Melissa Rhodes, our editor, and all the staff at Andrews McMeel Publishing for everything they do, from designing beautiful book packages, to successfully placing our books in bookstores and retail shops around the country.

    In addition to reading submissions from over 900 writers and poets who contribute on a regular basis to my anthologies, we read hundreds more potential selections from writers who found us via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and various online writing groups. This book would not exist without the hundreds of writers who submitted to Family Celebrations. We appreciate the gifts of creativity you have offered throughout this book! Your original language and fresh ideas for family traditions will be a gift to families everywhere.

    Nancy and I are so thankful for our family and friends who offer encouragement for our writing projects and inspire us daily by the lives they live. The impetus behind Family Celebrations was to honor and celebrate families. We hope we have succeeded.

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