A secret core of joy
By: by Ellin Randel
Publisher: Small Batch Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780982975800
Subjects: Women; Biography; Femmes; Biographies
Description: "Part memoir, part travelogue, part spiritual journey, A Secret Core of Joy is, more than anything, an inspirational manual for living. In spare, honest prose, Ellin Randel examines the people, places, and things that have made her life worth living. In doing so she elicits the essence of what gives every life its bitter and its sweet, gently serving up wisdom and insight that stay with her reader."--Page [4] cover.
Table of contents: title: My parents: earliest memories; title: The Bronx: gifts; title: The war; title: Marriage & motherhood: Atlantic crossings; title: Jim: sailing the Mediterranean; title: Back to Paris: street scenes of Paris; title: Jacques: chateau; title: The worst night of my life: incubus; title: My dance with cancer; title: Home again (Robert): spirituality; title: My land; title: The guru; title: Healing with Bach flowers: UFO; title: Experience talks; title: India; title: The bugs of India; title: Passage of power; title: Putsch; title: My dance with cancer continues: strange happenings; beaded bags; title: Leaving: who are we? (our cohousing community); title: The last dance; title: Growing old; title: Final thoughts.