PRAV Publishing dan repost
"Book-Thoughts around the Holidays": A Letter from PRAV Editor-in-Chief Jafe Arnold:
https://pravpublishing.com/2024/12/26/book-thoughts-around-the-holidays-a-letter-from-the-editor/
"Why books? Why the written word? As human beings, as authors and readers, we take up books for the sake of living, for facing life, for discovering and responding to the questions and situations that are posed to us throughout life and about life. When a publishing house releases a book, or when one person gifts a book to another, there is an outstretched hand that says: “Let us live together.” Authentic books are invitations to examine ourselves and our life, the lives of others, and the overall lifeworld in which we find ourselves. In engaging a book, we are physically, intellectually, lingually, and spiritually turning and opening ourselves up to some dimensions of life that call for our understanding, our interpreting, and our living on. Sitting down with a book, our intentionality stands up and leaps into a text that speaks to us, provided that we have eyes that see, ears that hear, and a commitment to living more fully, to being more aware and more open to the horizons ahead of us, whose existence we might not even have expected if it weren’t for such pages. With every book that is written, published, read, and shared, a little — or a lot — more of life is brought to light…
Many people have been driven to count the days, weeks, months, and years of their life in terms of survival, work, and more or less exterior spectacles, such as politics, the economy, social trends, technological developments, etc. As a publishing house, it could be said that PRAV counts our years and lifetime in terms of books, but provided the qualification that our books are not about conveying information or programs; rather, our books are appraised with respect to the times, places, and ways through which they pose the question, “Life?”, and the mystical, magical vocation: “Life!”...
https://pravpublishing.com/2024/12/26/book-thoughts-around-the-holidays-a-letter-from-the-editor/
"Why books? Why the written word? As human beings, as authors and readers, we take up books for the sake of living, for facing life, for discovering and responding to the questions and situations that are posed to us throughout life and about life. When a publishing house releases a book, or when one person gifts a book to another, there is an outstretched hand that says: “Let us live together.” Authentic books are invitations to examine ourselves and our life, the lives of others, and the overall lifeworld in which we find ourselves. In engaging a book, we are physically, intellectually, lingually, and spiritually turning and opening ourselves up to some dimensions of life that call for our understanding, our interpreting, and our living on. Sitting down with a book, our intentionality stands up and leaps into a text that speaks to us, provided that we have eyes that see, ears that hear, and a commitment to living more fully, to being more aware and more open to the horizons ahead of us, whose existence we might not even have expected if it weren’t for such pages. With every book that is written, published, read, and shared, a little — or a lot — more of life is brought to light…
Many people have been driven to count the days, weeks, months, and years of their life in terms of survival, work, and more or less exterior spectacles, such as politics, the economy, social trends, technological developments, etc. As a publishing house, it could be said that PRAV counts our years and lifetime in terms of books, but provided the qualification that our books are not about conveying information or programs; rather, our books are appraised with respect to the times, places, and ways through which they pose the question, “Life?”, and the mystical, magical vocation: “Life!”...