This incredible part-memoir, part-biography work tells the story of a non-religious woman in search of an inner life and spiritual wholeness during a time of personal chaos and spiritual confusion and her unexpected, imaginary friendship with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Writing about Merton's little-known sojourn to Alaska in 1968, Kathleen Witkowska Tarr describes what Merton might have seen, felt and experiencedabout wilderness Alaska and the people and dramatic landscapes he encountered a few short months before his ...
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This incredible part-memoir, part-biography work tells the story of a non-religious woman in search of an inner life and spiritual wholeness during a time of personal chaos and spiritual confusion and her unexpected, imaginary friendship with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Writing about Merton's little-known sojourn to Alaska in 1968, Kathleen Witkowska Tarr describes what Merton might have seen, felt and experiencedabout wilderness Alaska and the people and dramatic landscapes he encountered a few short months before his tragic death. In her struggle for inner grounding, the author poignantly blends Alaskan history, Russian culture and her own thoughts with Merton's spiritual reflections.
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