{"id":1040,"date":"2011-07-21T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:04:17","slug":"teach-me-how-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2011\/07\/teach-me-how-to-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Teach Me How To Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sz0020.wc.mail.comcast.net\/service\/home\/~\/?auth=co&amp;id=989340&amp;part=2.2\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another one of those Hansel and Gretel breadcrumb trail experiences as I write a review for a newly released book, &#8216;written through&#8217;\u00a0 troubador, minister, singer-songwriter, humorist, stand-up comedian Scott Kalechtstein Grace.\u00a0 The colorful paperback treasure is called <strong><em>Teach Me How To Love <\/em><\/strong><em><\/em>and\u00a0 it came to me as a result of atttending Glassboro State College from 1977-1981, where I met two friends named Laurie Zankman and Alison Weiss who introduced me to author and inspirational speaker Alan Cohen whose weekend workshop I attended\u00a0 in 1979 and whose work I absorbed into my soul. At another of his retreats, arrived a dazzlingly energetic, enthusiastic young man named Scott Kalechstein.\u00a0 As I soon learned, Scott is\u00a0an irrepressibly and sometimes irreverently\u00a0creative soul.\u00a0 Spirit has used him as a channel for Its wit and wisdom for years. One of Scott&#8217;s talents is allowing Song Portraits to come through him. He sits with a person and senses what would benefit them to hear and then steps back and voila!\u00a0 the music and the message pour forth. Poignant, sweet and beautiful. At other times, I see Scott as a &#8216;spiritual Weird Al Yankovich&#8217; who parodies other people&#8217;s songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Teach Me How To Love<\/em><\/strong> is a combination carnival ride and soulful slide into awesome adventure as Scott invites the reader to witness his life path from Brooklyn boy to California man.\u00a0 The chapters bear clever titles such as\u00a0 <em>A Friend Beneath My Wings<\/em> ( this particular friend of Scott&#8217;s is also a dear friend of mine; Stephen Feig) which shares the ways in which he showered a rather uncomfortable Scott with unconditional love.\u00a0 <em>If You Meet Your Soulmate On The Road<\/em> explores the love-is-never-wasted learning experience of the search for partnership. <em>The Greatest Love of All<\/em>, praises the necessity for\u00a0Scott\u00a0to love the man in the mirror before he could open his heart to allowing in\u00a0the fully flowing love from another\u00a0and co-creating a family, which includes his sweetie Venus and their delightful daughter Aysia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s vulnerability with candid discussion of his recovery from addiction, sharing of the healed relationships with his parents, as well as his challenges with romantic entanglements, makes him and this book so accessible and genuine. Inspired by A Course In Miracles, Scott&#8217;s journey is all about forgiveness over blame, love instead of fear and miracles by the score. He infuses humor into even the\u00a0most painful places, shining a light on the shadow; en-lightening up.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus bliss is that the book also includes a CD of Scott&#8217;s best loved songs including Follow Your Heart, Never Again,\u00a0Freedom Child \u00a0and the one that is the parallel to Cat Stevens&#8217; song Father and Son, aptly called Mother and Son. It is a goosebump and tear inducing piece.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in any way inclined to enjoy your spirituality spiced with silliness, your heart infused with awe, your path peppered with priceless gems, your soul speckled with wonder, then this book is for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottsongs.com\">www.scottsongs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a taste of Scott&#8217;s music\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5gz8AgVMjJ4\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/5gz8AgVMjJ4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; Another one of those Hansel and Gretel breadcrumb trail experiences as I write a review for a newly released book, &#8216;written through&#8217;\u00a0 troubador, minister, singer-songwriter, humorist, stand-up comedian Scott Kalechtstein Grace.\u00a0 The colorful paperback treasure is called Teach Me How To Love and\u00a0 it came to me as a result of atttending&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1,55,33,4,15,30,117,42,376,10,38,37],"tags":[365,516,539,321,578,579],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affirmations","category-attracting-what-you-desire","category-book-review","category-creativity","category-inspiration","category-living-their-bliss","category-love","category-men","category-miracles","category-music-review","category-spirituality","category-transformation","category-writing","tag-a-course-in-miracles","tag-alan-cohen","tag-cat-stevens","tag-glassboro-state-college","tag-scott-kalechstein-grace","tag-teach-me-how-to-love"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Teach Me How To Love - The Bliss Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2011\/07\/teach-me-how-to-love.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teach Me How To Love - The Bliss Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; 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