This is the story of a journey of awakening and change. Simply by listening to my inner soundings, and to the many inspiring women whom I have met over the past few years, I have learned what it means to genuinely honor the Self. Today I live a life not as the culture would have me live it, but as I understand its underlying purposes and callings from within.
Success is a manifold and changing thing.
In honoring what makes them women, they transform the world around them. I began to suspect that achievement could take a form uniquely as a woman . . . Unable to trek to Tibet or retreat to a cabin in the woods, she enters a long season of reflection in the midst of her everyday life. Hirsch looks back to the defining friendship of her young adult years and examines the very different choices she and her best friend, a poet, have made. A series of unexpected losses and the long-awaited birth of a child, all in a year's time, deepen her probing.