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  • The Barn at the End of the World
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    The barn at the end of the world

    Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O’Reilley a year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on “climbing out of the body” but rather on existing fully in the world, at least if she could overlook some of its earthier aspects. The Barn at the End of the World f...

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  • The Love of Impermanent Things
    Book cover image for The Love of Impermanent Things ISBN: 9781571313126

    The love of impermanent things

    At midlife, Mary Rose O’Reilley writes, we are called to an “archaeology of memory”—turning over a potsherd here, a fragment there—to assemble something whole out of the messiness of experience. Excavating her own life, she traces the middle-class Irish American background that shaped her, with i...

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