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Review �Dawna Markova is one of the great wisdom teachers of our time. She touched countless lives with I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, and many more will be touched by Living a Loved Life. This beautifully written book was shaped by three questions: �How do I find a way to live a life I can love now? How do I help make it possible for those who will come after me to do the same? How do I re-collect the wisdom earned through my own and others� challenges?� I don�t know anyone who would not benefit from exploring those questions, especially in the company of a master mentor, a true companion on the journey toward the human possibility. That�s Dawna Markova, and this book is her gift to you and me.� ?Parker J. Palmer, author of On the Brink of Everything, Let Your Life Speak, Healing the Heart of Democracy, and The Courage to Teach�Internationally renowned thought leader and personal growth expert Dawna Markova, PhD, brings us Living a Loved Life which challenges us to listen to the heartfelt lessons necessary to create the most loving life possible. She inspires us with stories and keen insights into discovering our truest purpose on earth. Her teachings reflect the wisdom of our elders and empowers us to live a fuller life. In her irresistible, poetic narrative style, the author insightfully shares how it is possible to braid our strengths from even our most difficult life lessons. Her teachings guide us to reclaim our voice, redefine our story and create the life of our dreams. Buy this insightful book today and gift it to everyone you care about. It�s a rare jewel and a life-affirming literary masterpiece.� ?Robyn Spizman, author of Loving Out Loud: The Power of a Kind Word, media personality and New York Times bestselling author�When we learn to love the life we are living, the joke is on us. We have been inhabitants of Paradise all along. Who knew? Modern neuroscience is catching on to the ancient wisdom that Dawna and her preternaturally wise grandmother transmit with such grace through luminous stories that ring the doorbell of the heart. When we savor what is and find possibility in life�s inevitable challenges, our nervous system is reprogrammed from self-protection to sweet connection with the astonishing miracle of life.�?Joan Borysenko, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind�Dawna Markova�s delightful and illuminating Living a Loved Life is a deep dive into the Wisdom of the Grandmother, not merely Dawna�s grandmother, but through her to the Grandmother each of us carries in our hearts. Read this book to hear Grandmother�s Wisdom echo in your heart.�?Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Surrendered, the Sacred Art: Shattering the Illusion of Control and Falling into Grace with Twelve-Step Spirituality�I�m sure I�m not alone in my life-long yearning for a gramma who was wise, taught me the most important life lessons, who adored me, and whose �believing eyes� would bring forward my gifts for the world. Dawna Markova, in her touching book, Living a Loved Life, is kind enough to loan her exquisite grandmother to us to reaffirm that which is necessary for each of us to live life in its depth and fullness.� ?Linda Bloom, co-author of 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last�I love this book. After reading it, I�m inspired to be a grandfather but also an elder. I wish I had a chance to meet Dawna's grandmother...but I think I already have...because, as Dawna wrote, �she passed into me.� Now her grandmother has passed into me too, and I can use all the help I can get!�?Al Carey, CEO emeritus of PepsiCo North America and chairman of Unifi Inc. Read more About the Author Inspirational speaker, writer, and researcher, Dawna Markova, PhD�is CEO emeritus of Professional Thinking Partners, an organization that teaches collaborative thinking to CEOs and senior executives around the world. She has served as a senior affiliate of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT, and a consultant member of the Society for Organizational Learning and has received a Vision to Action award for her work originating the Random Acts of Kindness movement, the Foster Grandparenting and Peer Counseling programs, and the World Wide Women's Web.One of the creators of the best-selling Random Acts of Kindness series, Dawna is the author of many other inspirational books, including Reconcilable Differences, Collaborative Intelligence, A Spot of Grace, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, The Smart Parenting Revolution, The Open Mind, How Your Child Is�Smart, No Enemies Within, Learning Unlimited, and The Art of the Possible, as well as the Open Mind Audio Series with Sounds True. She is also a contributor to For She Is the Tree of Life: Grandmothers Through the Eyes Of Women Writers, and Fabric of the Future. Read more Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. How Can I Never Lose Who I Really Am?I seem to get lost a lot. It�s my sister�s fault. At least that�s what my mother says. When I was just three months old, my sister took me for a walk in a large black baby carriage, which she left on the yellow painted lines in the middle of Ditmus Avenue in Brooklyn. It took the police several hours to find me. Supposedly, I wasn�t even crying at the time.I also seem to break bones a lot. Leg bones, arm bones, collarbones, funny bones: I�ve broken them all. My sister says it�s because I was born a klutz. When I broke the bone in my right leg, she drew an ugly face on the cast. So it has taken a long time to climb the stairs to Grandma�s today. I am carrying my favorite book, The Wizard of Oz, in a backpack so I can manage the crutches. The heroine, Dorothy, gets lost a lot, just like I do. I take the book under the kitchen table, where the red oilcloth cover hangs down and makes a tent I can hide under. Grandma comes in to check on the yeasting Sabbath bread, and I begin immediately to pelt her with the question that keep rising in my mind.�Grandma, why do I keep getting lost all the time? How will I ever find the Promise if I keep losing my way?�She pulls me up onto her bony lap, cast and all, and puts her warm hand on top of mine. The veins on the back pop out like little rivers. Her skin has brown spots and is thin as onion peel. She moves our hands around and around. Each time they trace a bigger and bigger circle in the air. Then I recognize the shape.�I know what that�s called, Grandma! I just learned about it in school. It�s a spiral.�Her eyes get crinkly in the corners. �I call it the Wisdom Trail.� She kisses the back of my neck where she says it tastes the sweetest, saying, �In school, they teach you many things that you�re supposed to master, like reading and arithmetic. I don�t know anything about them, but I do know about things that are a mystery: bringing babies into the world and discovering the Promise in people.�Ah, this is what I really want to hear about. Maybe the Wisdom Trail is like the Yellow Brick Road. �Tell me about that, Grandma. Will it keep me from getting lost?�She keeps our hands moving in a spiral, up, around, out. �Well, let�s talk about that. You�ll live many moments, Ketzaleh. If you memorize them and the people that you love, they�ll be planted on the Island that is deep within your heart. When your body dies, that Island goes with you.��But Grandma, what if I rush and forget to memorize them. It�s hard to memorize my multiplication tables. Moments? People? I don�t know if I can do that. I�ll get lost even more than I do now!�Her eyes light up. �It�s not as hard as you think, my darling. What�s most important is not to rush. You see, there is One who lives on that Island who is always listening to your thoughts. Can you find that One now?�I think to myself that I won�t be able to find that One, but then I notice the one who is thinking that thought. I try not to bounce on my Grandma�s knees because I might hurt her, but I jiggle excitedly. �Yes, Grandma. It�s easy. There has to be one who is listening to my thoughts, �cause otherwise who would notice them?��Just so, Ketzaleh. That is the One who lives on the Island of your Heart. It has always been there and will always be there. And the more moments you love, the more will be planted on that Island. If a person rushes around and doesn�t notice any moments, their Island will be like a desert because nothing will take root.��And when I die, will that Island and the One Who Knows go with me?�Without hesitation, she strokes the hair out of my eyes and nods. �You can learn to make the kind of choices that help you memorize your moments, Ketzaleh. You move through your moments making choices. Some will make you feel more alive, some will make you feel less. This is as it meant to be. Instead of marching ahead in a straight line, your life is meant to go like a spiral. Each time you make a choice that helps you love that moment, the spiral gets wider and wider and you get wiser and wiser.�I like the idea of a spiral path instead of a straight line. I especially like that I can�t get lost on it. But I�m still confused. �OK, I get that, but how do I love a moment?�As she answers, she takes a pencil and draws a little heart around the ugly face on my cast. �First you have to know how to make choices as you walk on the Wisdom Trail, Ketzaleh. You may choose to leap with one foot because it seems like it will be fun and it seems like it could grow the life in you. Let�s call that your foot of risk. Then you may choose to feel safe and secure, so you root down right where you are with your other foot. You keep going back and forth: risk, safe, risk, safe, back and forth, back and forth. Understanding that helps you love your life.� Read more
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