The Reading Of The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran wrote The Prophet and it was published by Alfred A. Knopf.  The story is written in sections of 26 prose poetry style and to the Podcaster, it reads like a Holy text.  It is a book she grew up with and wants to share with you.  The story begins when Almustafa, the chosen one, ship returns to take him home to The Isle of his birth.  He was stranded is the connotation and he has been waiting a long and lonely 12 years, isolated, but still one with the community of Ielool, in a place of observation.  When his ship arrives the villagers gather about him and ask him what he has learned about life since he has been there, one by one they come forward and ask him about different topics, which he then speaks to.  

It is a fantastic story and a book chalked filled with wisdom.  The copyright ran out in 2012 so she is now able to share it with you.  It is broken into several segments, which she will do in audiobook format, Olivia Betts reading The Prophet to you.

When she was a child she always saw this book on the shelf of her mothers.  One day in her pre adolescence, she had a rip roaring fight with her mother, and she will never forget what happened next.  Her mother called her into her bedroom.  Her mothers bedroom, was the corner room in the basement.  It was a sunshiny Sunday afternoon, she could smell the ocean, the cliffs leading down to the shores 20 feet from the sliding glass door, the seagulls screaming as the dove for herring.  Her mother put her hand on the bed and indicated she should sit.  She did so.  She then said spoon.  Again doing as she was told she laid down, her mother laying behind her, just like spoons in the cutlery jar.  In front of her, her mother reached out with a hardcover book, the jacket white with an interesting long haired man depicted in illustration on the front.  She began to read to her the piece on Children.  "Children are not your children, but life's long for itself."  And on it went, as did her life.  

The Christmas just before her grandmother died, a few years later, she was presented with a copy signed and dated from her.

In those times when truly she should do nothing, as she knows not what to do, she has two or three books she reaches out to. This is one of them.  

Enjoy.  

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