The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard
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| ISBN-13: | 9780718095581 |
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| Publisher: | Nelson, Thomas, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 06/06/2017 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Sales rank: | 115,802 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.00(d) |
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The Turquoise Table
Finding Community and Connection In Your Own Front Yard
By:
Kristin Schell
This beautiful book is welcoming and relaxing cover with bluish brown shades of the table to invite you to open the book and welcome you into the pages to take a journey on knowing how to connect with your neighbors and maybe make new friends along the way.
Kristin wanted to be able to connect with people. She didn’t know how to go about how to doing it. Kristin went to a conference in her home town of Austin, Texas. There were several Speakers but when the lights shown on Jo Saxton she had a British accent, she delivered a line that changed everything. As Kristin listened, Kristin finally asked God “I can’t be what I can’t see, so show me!”
The answer came at an unexpected place. Kristin started to feel like she had purposes for her life now as her heart started to change.
There are recipes for your gathering with neighbors; she gives good ideas of different things to do throughout this beautiful book. The stories she tells throughout this book are really worth buying this book just for the stories.
I recommend this book highly. I put the ISBN No. so it is easier for you to tell a worker at the store and they can help you locate books faster.
I received this beautiful book free from Booklookblogger for an honest review. I was not required to write a positive review just an honest one. The opinions I have expressed are entirely my own and no one else’s.
5 Stars
ISBN 978-0-7180-9558-1
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The Turquoise Table by Kristen Schell was a really inspiring read. It's the perfect book for summer! The book is gorgeous. It is filled with pretty pictures and recipes throughout the story. I loved the idea of going out of your comfort zone to notice your neighbors and to build real relationships in a busy world. Her ideas to build community were simple, straightforward and really motivating. Schell gives personal examples and many testimonials about the impact of these turquoise picnic tables in various communities.
I had never heard anyone talk about hospitality vs entertaining before. She drove home the point that hospitality is about serving others and entertaining is about putting the focus on yourself. When your goal is being hospitable you don't have to stress about how clean your house is or all the party details. You can just make plans to listen, care for and serve people. I loved her message of slowing down, paying attention to the people around you and taking time to connect with others. She didn't abandon her motherly responsibilities or do anything crazy - she just dedicated time each day to build her community. I don't plan to put a picnic table in my front yard, but I loved her message of being front yard people and looking for ways to connect with the people around you. I took notes and am excited to put her ideas into practice this summer.
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We moved into a new rental in a neighborhood a little over two months ago. Neighborhood life has been such a change from apartment living near a busy road. I have been hoping to meet some of our neighbors, so when I saw the tagline for this book "Finding Community and Connection in your Own Front Yard" I was intrigued. The book, The Turquoise Table, shares of the story of how author Kristin Schell came to have a turquoise table in her front yard and the life change it brought with it. But beyond just the story itself, the book is full of recipes, reflection questions and exercises, photographs, and more, all bound up in a beautiful hardcover book. Reading the book sparked my imagination as to how I can reach out and connect to our new neighbors, and it inspired me to remember the true spirit of hospitality lies in opening up our lives to others.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
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Do you know your neighbors? Do you know them? Do you wish you did? So many of us wish we had neighborhoods like ones we grew up in, where neighbors were friends, and kids rode bikes and played cops & robbers together. That's exactly what author Kristin Schell wanted, so she did something really simple: she put a picnic table out in her front lawn and painted it turquoise. She then invited friends, neighbors and strangers to come sit with her, talk and enjoy the day.
It transformed her neighborhood, and because of her example, lots of other people have been putting their own turquoise tables up in their neighborhoods.
If you have a desire to get to know your neighbors deeper than the, "how are you?" "good" type conversations, this book is for you. It's fabulous!
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