Stretching Lessons: The Daring that Starts from Within
Like the delicate finger exercises that help pianists achieve great  sonatas,Stretching Lessonsreads like a series of contemplative  exercises that help readers achieve great wisdom. Writing with utter humility  and humanity, Sue Bender shares the private (and sometimes painful) life lessons  that have helped her stretch into a bigger person. We read of Bender as a    sixth-grade girl who didn't get chosen for the accelerated progress class, and  how her body helped her find a face-saving solution. Sometimes her confessions  are downright comforting, particularly since this author ofPlain and  SimpleandEveryday Sacredlets us know that she still struggles with  creating too much struggle:Iamwiser.And I amstillstruggling...I'm sixty-six years old and I want to learn about ease.Consider this an in-and-out book, one that can be opened to any page, where  readers will find brief one-to-three-page essays about stretching into one's  biggest self, biggest dream, biggest life. Although it's billed as a memoir,  don't expect a tightly woven literary narrative. Even so, the airy format with  plenty of white space manages to convey a strong sense of Bender's life and the  common ground we all find in her experiences.--Gail Hudson--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.