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The Richness: Poetry about Old Age in the Twenty-First Century is an exploration of both the positive and negative experience of old age, focusing on the often unappreciated perks. The 83-year-old author has written her experiences in easy-to-access poetry. The book is divided into six sections: "Coming Into Old Age, " "Moving into the Residential Retirement Home, " "Walking through Old Age, " "Deepening Spirituality, " "Completing Old Age, " ...

No One's Easy Daughter: Our Journeys of Transformation, originally conceived as a documentary record of a way of life passing from existence, developed into a mosaic, a shared memoir of thirty-nine women who 'took the veil' together as Franciscan Novices. Some are still Sisters, others followed different life paths yet remain intimately connected because of those early years spent together. These women who met in the 1950s have continued to sh...

Walking: Poems from My Search for God is the lyrical autobiography of a woman who believes she is everything she has ever been-like a tree with many rings. Each year brings new growth, but the tree continues to nourish itself through all of its rings. She started life with a strong Roman Catholic background, becoming a sister in a religious congregation during late adolescence, and left a sad agnostic. Her husband's death brought back belief, ...

The Shape of Grief is a poetic narrative of widowhood. It begins with a definition of widowhood and goes on to expresses its spiral shape: deep grief, initial lessening, sinking back, rising and sinking over and over. But each stage widens one's perception of all reality even as it increases one's compassion for all suffering. This is a book conceived during intense suffering after the death of a spouse, charting the course of grief through it...