Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683365577 ISBN 13: 9781683365570

Publisher: SkyLight Paths, 2004

Synopsis

Discover how this transitional season can reveal both the abundance and the limitations of our everyday lives.

Autumn, with all its traditional images of colorful trees, frost-covered pumpkins, and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold, can be a season filled with anticipation. The harvest, the imminent onset of cold and snow, the resumption of old routines, and the beginning of the school year all require preparation and planning. If summer has been something of a pause, autumn helps us to see the passage of time more clearly.

Autumn is a season of fruition and reaping, of thanksgiving and celebration of abundance and goodness of the earth. But it is also a season that starkly and realistically encourages us to see our own limitations.

Warm and stirring pieces by E. B. White, Anne Lamott, P. D. James, Julian of Norwich, May Sarton, Kimiko Hahn, and many others in this beautiful book rejoice in autumn as a time of preparation and reflection, when the results of hard labor are ripe for harvest.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan M. Felch teaches literature at Calvin College and is coeditor of Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season; Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season and Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season. She also edited The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock and Bakhtin and Religion.

About this edition

• Publisher: SkyLight Paths
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1683365577
• ISBN 13: 9781683365570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Felch Susan M., Schmidt Gary
• Illustrator: Moser Barry