"[The editor] Victoria Safford is the minister at White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church near Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of 'Walking Toward Meaning', the 2003 UUA Meditation Manual." Source: The book's back cover. "In their various voices the authors remind us that meditation may take as its subject almost anything under the sun, embracing the ordinary, as well as the sacred, pain as well as beauty. . ." Source: The book's preface.