Let There Be a Holiday is a lovely book of meditations that is inspirational and so very, very real in the sense of inviting each person into the creativity and joy that each experience can be. In some cases, indeed one must use the imagination to create a conversation, a "What If" type of scenario that isn't fantasy but an alternative way of living defying negativity and/or despair.

For we live in a world, according to this author, that requires us to be alert to how things simply "are" or "could be." For example, how does one truly love the uniqueness in each person? By seeing the special quality of the other person or by loving one's self first? The meditation advises "...just be willing to see God in that person - not as some abstract transcendent perfection, but in a way that's both humbler and harder - uniqueness turned human." Now that's different!

Or perhaps it's taking time to discover what thrills your soul in an activity, or choosing to be with another person or even a pet! Maybe it's the decision to work with antidote affirmations - affirmations following a reaction to an idea or a previous affirmation - the final one being a healing and freeing moment that truly changes one's moment, day, and probably the people around us!

Whatever your penchant is, it's guaranteed that these meditations will touch some aspect of your being!

And just in case that is only minimally experienced (highly doubtful!), there are poems and meditations that one can read which will elicit some definite blessing to follow, as in "Lace," "Hold me in all softness...Let me, so I may/unbind the veil that now covers my eyes...How You, who have crocheted me to be lace,/must laugh to watch the untangling of this knot."

Lovely, Ms. Rosetree!

Reviewed by Viviane Crystal on November 17, 2006

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