Introduction

Poetic and provocative, a challenge to women to create more spiritually rich and balanced lives.A successful writer and a committed feminist, Kathleen Hirsch, at age forty, finds herself searching for something more. How, she asks, can women's lives be more spiritually alive and whole? Can we reclaim in our most productive years what we sacrificed to earlier ideas of success? What is the place of silence and creativity in our busy lives?

Unable to trek to Tibet or retreat to a cabin in the woods, she enters a season of reflection in the midst of her everyday life. A career crisis, the sudden death of a brother, and the birth of her son, all in a year's time, deepen her probing. Hirsch examines the role of women's friendships and the definition of worthwhile work. Her inner pilgrimage gradually moves her to seek out a range of remarkable women who are consciously trying to live in balance. They lead her to bold conclusions that will inspire many women who are seeking realistic ways to live more multidimensional lives.Beautifully written, A Sabbath Life will serve as A Gift from the Sea for the twenty-first century.

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Just as Dorothy didn't need to travel to Oz, author Kathleen Hirsch came to discover that life's greatest meaning could be found in her own backyard. A Sabbath Life offers a glimpse into the personal journal of an achievement-oriented, 40-year-old woman as she commits herself to creativity, motherhood, and the daily acts of building a holistic home. Although the journal-style prose seems detached at times, many of Hirsch's insights will resonate with women trying to find spiritual meaning in this postfeminist era. She often writes as if she were having a conversation with all women. "If a physical practice like gardening anchors us, it also taps a level of psychic life that many of us haven't experienced for years," writes Hirsch. "Physical work reawakens a delight in the sensual world, in the creative--its colors, movements, and makings. For a woman, these impulses are sources of deep spiritual nourishment." This is an important and stimulating conversation for any woman who considers herself a feminist, but who also values the spiritual blessings of hearth and family. --Gail Hudson

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