Day Schildkret is internationally known for Morning Altars and has inspired tens of thousands of people of all ages across the globe to be awed with impermanent earth art. Both Day and Morning Altars have been featured in BuzzFeed, VICE, VOX, Spirituality & Health Magazine, and on NBC and CBS's affiliate stations. Day is the author of Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual, and Hello, Goodbye.
"Day Schildkret's book Hello, Goodbye is the most direct and
moving guide to ritual that I have ever read. . . Here you will
find simple, evocative, original, powerful rituals for bedtimes and
seasons, for new names and new homes, for birthing and coming out,
for growing up and grieving-but not only rituals. . . . You just
might discover a way to live more consciously, with feeling and
gratitude." -Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author of The Jewish Book
of Days: A Companion for All Seasons
"Hello, Goodbye is a treasured guide for all times. Sharing
powerful rituals to reconnect us with our past and step
courageously into our future, Day's words weave an artful tapestry
of inspiration and invite us to participate, intentionally, in the
natural cycles of our own personal journey - the beginnings and the
endings - honoring the beauty and wonder of life itself." -Kim
Chestney, Author of Radical Intuition and Founder of
IntuitionLab
"Day creates a meaningful and detailed look into the magic and use
of ritual as a tool for modern times. It may be possible that the
technology of ritual is just what is needed to thread the needle
from our current freneticism as a civilization, to a shared future
of equanimity. Day brings old ways new again, in methods
approachable for anyone." - East Forest, musician
"Day Schildkret has done something really special here. A few pages
in, I wanted to gift this book to everyone I know. Certain to
become a forever reference and treasured, faithful companion,
Hello, Goodbye will be dog-eared, stained, written in, and
passed on." -Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of Call of the
Wild and The Fourth Trimester
"There is only one thing to do when life expectedly or unexpectedly
changes and you're stopped by the question: "What do I do now?"
Pick up Hello, Goodbye. Do it, each and every time. Let this
book inspire you to create rituals to honor the transition you are
walking. Then get out of your head and into your hands, heart, and
humanity. Day Schildkret's deeply important, alive, ceremonial book
is a guide to mending the rupture of separation by reminding us to
sanctify all the changes in our individual, familial, and community
lives. Whether you are traversing grief, the coming of a second
child, losing a job, stepping into a new relationship, or anything
else, Hello, Goodbye is the guide we all need to honor, and
grow with, to embrace and embody the mystery, magic, and movement
of life." -HeatherAsh Amara, author of Warrior Goddess
Training
"Hello, Goodbye brings relief and beauty from its first
pages. It is a balm in the mad rush of this world. Schildkret is a
generous guide, inviting us to palpably mark and be fully present
in the most tender and powerful moments of what it is to be human.
I will always have this book in my life." -Heidi Rose Robbins,
astrologer and host of the podcast The Radiance Project
"Hello, Goodbye is a heartfelt invitation to slow down, take
a deep breath, and allow ourselves to acknowledge and honor the
transitions before us. In this, Day offers us both a timely and
timeless gift: a reminder to be in our lives with feeling and
intention rather than letting these moments, and our lives, simply
slip by." -Eileen S. Rosete, MSMFT, certified postpartum doula and
grief educator, founder of Our Sacred Women and author of the
upcoming, Our Womb Loss
"Hello, Goodbye is the arrival of the kind of friend who
arrives in secret in the night, with scarred hands, and shielding a
faint flame. Then, slowly, over the rest of the night that flicker
is fed with you into something that looks like warmth as that
friend genuinely shares some hard earned understanding of what
ritual might be and why it has been forgotten and why it might be
mandatory to start to cultivate the skill, now, for all the joys
and sorrows that arrive at our collective doorsteps. Page by page
Day Schildkret is that friend to you in his generous and worthy
book for a ritual-starved time and place. Find a way to be gathered
in." -Matthew Stillman, author, Genesis Deflowered
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