Brenda Miller is the award-winning author of three essay collections: Listening Against the Stone, Blessing of the Animals, and Season of the Body. She co-authored Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as editor-in-chief of the Bellingham Review. Holly J. Hughes is the editor of the award-winning anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, published by Kent State University Press and the author of Boxing the Compass, published by Floating Bridge Press.
Foreword by Norman Fischer
Preface
Ways to Use This Book
Sitting Down and Waking Up
Details, Details, Details
Lectio Divina
Opening the Senses
Preparation Is Everything
Practice, Practice, Practice
Contemplation at Work
The Moments in Between
Spiritual Traditions
Eating as Contemplative Practice
On Gratitude
Travel as Contemplative Practice
Encounters with the Wild
Our Animal Companions
Dwelling in Our Bodies
Responding to Art
Allowing Emptiness
On Mortality
Befriending Solitude and Grief
Balancing Contemplation and Action
A Final Offering
