Mary Rose O'Reilley

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Mary Rose O'Reilly manages to combine several interests of mine into one captivating memoir. A Quaker pulled to experience Buddhist meditation and sheep wrangling, she discusses the lessons she learns from each. I like her down-to-earth observations and humor. I felt I could totally relate to her journey of self-exploration. Chapters on other interests of hers like shape-note singing were equally fascinating.

"What might happen if we frame the central questions of our profession as spiritual issues and deal with them in light of our spiritual traditions?"

Sweet. Harks back to my undergrad days at a Quaker college. I do not know that it will change my pedagogy overmuch--not in the traditionally observable ways, at least--but it is having an effect in changing who I am as a teacher.