May 2024 Book Club: For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan

Name: May 2024 Book Club: For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan
Start: 2024-05-05T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-05T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Solvay Public Library

Schedule

Sun May 05 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Solvay Public Library | Syracuse, NY

Join us Sunday, May 5th, at 1 pm to discuss For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World. We’ll meet at the Solvay Public Library in the Community Room, on the lower floor.
The CNY Humanists are a chapter of the American Humanist Association. Humanism may be defined as "an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems."
About the Book (from Amazon):
…For Small Creatures Such as We is part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, a luminous celebration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed.
Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable.
When Sagan herself became a mother, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions--from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more--growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on a religious framework.
As Sagan shares these rituals, For Small Creatures Such as We becomes a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world--a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.
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Here is a link above to the book on Amazon https://amzn.to/49qPA3c (and we may receive a small sum if it’s used). But we encourage the use of our public libraries. In addition to our excellent Onondaga County Public Libraries https://www.onlib.org/, which has 6 copies of this book in various formats, New York State residents can get a New York (City) Public Library card https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new to get access to e-books and audiobooks held by the NYPL, such as this book club read.