000 03891cam a2200397 i 4500
001 on1294394997
003 OCoLC
005 20220701110123.0
008 220113s2022 nyu e 000 0aeng d
040 _aTOH
_beng
_erda
_cTOH
_dYDX
_dIKG
_dBDX
_dJCX
_dIK2
_dCPL
_dRNL
_dNFG
019 _a1260190766
_a1309335294
_a1319759851
020 _a9781635577587
_q(hardcover)
020 _a1635577586
_q(hardcover)
035 _a(OCoLC)1294394997
_z(OCoLC)1260190766
_z(OCoLC)1309335294
_z(OCoLC)1319759851
043 _an-us---
092 _a150.92
_bP665
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aPipher, Mary Bray,
_eauthor.
_948951
245 1 2 _aA life in light :
_bmeditations on impermanence /
_cMary Pipher.
246 3 0 _aMeditations on impermanence
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2022.
300 _a302 pages ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _aFrom the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia-a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her New York Times bestseller Women Rowing North-taps into a cultural moment, to offer wisdom, hope, and insight into loss and change. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she looks inward in A Life in Light to what shaped her as a woman, one who has experienced darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the light. Her plainspoken depictions of her hard childhood and life's difficulties are dappled with moments of joy and revelation, tragedies and ordinary miseries, glimmers and shadow. As a child, she was separated from her parents for long periods. Those separations affected her deeply, but in A Life in Light she explores what she's learned about how to balance despair with joy, utilizing and sharing with readers every coping skill she has honed during her lifetime to remind us that there is a silver thread of resilience that flows through all of life, and that despite our despair, the light will return. In this book, she points us toward that light.
505 0 _aI. Attachment and loss: The fountain ; A motherless child ; Golden light ; My father's shirt -- II. Becoming: Light filtered through water ; A best friend ; Animal companions ; The library ; House calls ; Storytelling ; Girl Scout cookies -- III. In another light: Shelling peas ; The coffin and the chenille bedspread ; Harbor lights ; Prairie dog villages ; Ozark summers ; Shafts of light ; Heart light -- IV. Identity: The burning tree ; Summer solstice ; The light from ideas ; The A&W on Highway 81 ; San Francisco -- V. Leaving home: The fiery furnace ; Campfire lights ; Dock of the bay ; Pregnancy and exile ; Sunrise ; Fireplace light ; My father's death -- VI. Settling down: The Fourth of July ; Butterscotch light ; Daughter light ; My mother's death ; Writing ; Fame ; Okinawa ; Teardrops in the snow ; Equatorial light ; Chinook salmon ; The Fabtones' last night at the Zoo Bar ; Snowfields ; January ice -- VII. Reslience: Helicopter lights ; Buddha light ; Morel hunting ; Sunset ; The Perseids ; Strawberry moon ; Prairie grasses ; Musical light ; Rescue -- VIII. Wisdom light: Will they remember? ; Winter moon ; Wisdom light ; My son's kitchen ; The cranebow ; The light we can always find.
600 1 0 _aPipher, Mary Bray.
_948951
650 0 _aPsychologists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_9130659
650 0 _aResilience (Personality trait)
_9114093
650 0 _aMental health.
_973065
650 0 _aSelf-actualization (Psychology) in women.
_9114969
655 7 _aSelf-help publications.
_2lcgft
_9322522
655 7 _aEssays.
_2lcgft
_95184
994 _aC0
_bNFG
999 _c347025
_d347025