Title: Blessing of the animals /
Authors: Miller, Brenda, 1959-
Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Miller, Brenda,; United States Biography
Abstract: "In Brenda Miller's second collection of award-winning essays, the reader is drawn into a conversation on topics ranging from new dogs to old stained glass, from a walk in Portland's Japanese Garden to a sojourn in Jerusalem, from model airplanes to Magic 8 Balls. As in her acclaimed first collection, Season of the Body, Miller leads us on a pilgrimage through her life as a woman driven by spiritual yearning. Together, these essays prompt us to consider how our hard-won abilities to bless others become ways of blessing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Blessing of the animals -- Model -- Balsa -- Knitted -- Virtuoso -- A dream of ariadne -- Japanese garden -- Table of figures -- Getting yourself home -- A different person -- Naked -- Imagining the volcano -- Raging waters -- Enticement -- Opalescent -- Borrowed views -- Secret machine -- In the night -- Runes and incantations.