The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most

By Christine Cowley

The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most contains 24 engaging exercises to guide readers through the steps of creating a legacy statement; easy lessons help recall and relate life experiences, moral and ethical values, personal recollections, and family stories. Writing exercises help facilitate the composition of engaging narratives that inform, illustrate and leave a lasting imprint.

The Gift Companion Workbook provides ample space for recording answers to questions, or for lengthier sharing and storytelling; pages are lined and unlined to allow for illustrations or other images. The workbook can serve as a rough copy for a future manuscript, but is attractive enough to be passed on as the finished product. Instructions for self-publishing help readers create their own books as treasured heirlooms for future generations. The workbook is sold separately. The Gift Companion Workbook provides ample space for recording answers to questions, or for lengthier sharing and storytelling. Visit The Gift Legacy website for more details.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christine Cowley
• Release date: Dec 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9780978493271

Christine Cowley

Christine E. Cowley Christine Cowley is an author, collaborator, editor and/or publisher of over 30 books. She is founder and Managing Editor of LifeGems Personal Histories, which produces personal, family and corporate histories. Christine’s latest book, The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most, released in November 2010, is a "how-to" book for creating your legacy statement. A legacy statement is simply an expression of who you are and what is important to you; it provides a unique opportunity to leave a personal statement for future generations. The message of The Gift is: "Our lives will be defined by what we leave behind." Butchers, Bakers and Building the Lakers: Voices of Collingwood, Cowley’s award-winning oral/pictorial history, shares the stories of many generations of residents of Collingwood, ON, once hailed as the "Chicago of the North."

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