Follow Miller through youthful ambition and self-absorption, a broken marriage and into the calm of a so-called ordinary life.
by Karen Maezen Miller
It is easy to think that meaning, fulfillment and bliss are out there — somewhere outside of our daily routines. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen sink and the peace possible in one’s own backyard.
Follow Miller through youthful ambition and self-absorption, a broken marriage and into the calm of a so-called ordinary life.
In her hands, household chores and caregiving tasks become opportunities for self-examination, lessons in relationship and liberating moments of selflessness.
With attention, it is the little things — even the unexpected, unpleasant and unwanted things — that count.
$14.95 — New World Library, 14 Pamaron Way, Novato, CA 94949.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 29, Number 3, June/July 2010.
April 14, 2012
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