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How to host a Viking funeral : the case for burning your regrets, chasing your crazy ideas, and becoming the person you're meant to be / Kyle Scheele.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063087279
  • 0063087278
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Contents:
One viking ship leads to another. How this whole thing got started ; A long history of weird projects ; The second ship ; Everything goes wrong ; Two steps forward, one and three-quarters steps back -- A unified theory of regret. No regurts ; The person you were five minutes ago ; Here there be dragons ; Making heads and tails ; Flats into curves -- Fears. My third favorite Roosevelt ; What if nobody cares? ; The cave you fear to enter ; If at first you don't succeed ; The opposite of fear -- Experiences. No turnarounds ; Cutting circles out of squares ; Vernon ; The danger of seeing one side ; Company policy -- Identities. A dog named Kyle ; Only an artist ; Best cold sandwich ; Reading the label from inside the jar ; I'm not that person anymore -- Relationships. It only takes one ; With a little help from my friends ; The worst kind of fat guy ; Kid president ; The hard thing about relationships -- Beliefs. A star named Kristina ; These things have a way of working themselves out ; I don't know what to believe anymore ; I didn't have the heart ; What doesn't kill you -- The people we used to be. Ounces become pounds ; My Danny DeVito body pillow ; "We didn't start the fire" ; The ship burns ; Greener pastures -- Epilogue: a note on new beginnings -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: selected online submissions.
Summary: The man who created a viral sensation with own Viking funeral shares the stories of countless others who also let go of their own bad choices, disappointments, and heartaches through similar rituals.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 158.1 S315 Available 33111010637250
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An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship.

This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope.

Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this milestone. Instead of a birthday bash, he decided to hold a funeral to memorialize the decade of his life that was ending. Building a 16-foot Viking ship out of cardboard, he invited friends to help him set it on fire--a symbolic farewell to his 20s and all the grief, regret, and mistakes that accompanied those years.

When video of his Viking funeral went viral, it encouraged many others to let go of past hurts as well. Moved by the response he received, Kyle planned a second funeral (this time with a 30-foot cardboard Viking ship) and asked people to share the things they carried--the bad choices, disappointments, heartaches, and negative thinking that they wanted to lay to rest. He received more than 20,000 responses from around the world--stories both heartbreaking and hilarious, painful and inspiring.

In this entertaining and wise book, Kyle reflects on what he discovered about freeing ourselves from the pain of the past, interweaving anecdotes from those who participated with the story of his own journey of renewal. "This story involves multiple Viking funerals, thousands of square feet of cardboard, and enough hot glue to supply your mother-in-law's craft night for the rest of time," he writes. "But it also involves regret, self-doubt, insecurity, and ultimately, redemption. So buckle up. It's about to get bumpy."

How to Host a Viking Funeral is the story of letting go of the people we used to be, but no longer want to be. It's about renewal; where there was once regret there is now blank space--an opportunity for a fresh start.

One viking ship leads to another. How this whole thing got started ; A long history of weird projects ; The second ship ; Everything goes wrong ; Two steps forward, one and three-quarters steps back -- A unified theory of regret. No regurts ; The person you were five minutes ago ; Here there be dragons ; Making heads and tails ; Flats into curves -- Fears. My third favorite Roosevelt ; What if nobody cares? ; The cave you fear to enter ; If at first you don't succeed ; The opposite of fear -- Experiences. No turnarounds ; Cutting circles out of squares ; Vernon ; The danger of seeing one side ; Company policy -- Identities. A dog named Kyle ; Only an artist ; Best cold sandwich ; Reading the label from inside the jar ; I'm not that person anymore -- Relationships. It only takes one ; With a little help from my friends ; The worst kind of fat guy ; Kid president ; The hard thing about relationships -- Beliefs. A star named Kristina ; These things have a way of working themselves out ; I don't know what to believe anymore ; I didn't have the heart ; What doesn't kill you -- The people we used to be. Ounces become pounds ; My Danny DeVito body pillow ; "We didn't start the fire" ; The ship burns ; Greener pastures -- Epilogue: a note on new beginnings -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: selected online submissions.

The man who created a viral sensation with own Viking funeral shares the stories of countless others who also let go of their own bad choices, disappointments, and heartaches through similar rituals.

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