Becoming Anchoress: The Gift of Sacred Solitude - Softcover

Müller, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798994987612

Verlag: Folde Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

We're told we need to open the door to find answers. What if we need to close one? Maybe you don't need to do more. You need a room of your own-an anchorhold. During my father's final years, I drove a wheezing minivan across the Kansas prairie while trying to outrun the noise in my own mind and the sorrow of all that was changing. I didn't need more productivity. I needed a different kind of attention. In a red barn, I built a small anchorhold inspired by medieval anchoresses like Julian of Norwich. I entered it to be still and discover what remained when everything unnecessary fell away. Behind that closed door, I found that solitude is not avoidance. It is presence. Through tumbleweeds, fossils, snow geese, and the slow return of carrion to soil, the prairie became a teacher, offering lessons in surrender, trust, and the quiet art of becoming. This book is an invitation to sacred solitude-not as an escape from the world, but as a way of returning to it with deeper attention. You only need a door. The willingness to close it. And the courage to return changed.

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Angela Müller is a fifth-generation Kansan who explores the sacredness of the land. A prairie abstractionist, she creates art from natural materials gathered on the Kansas prairie. Her art has been featured in The New Territory Magazine and the Ad Astra Music Festival. Her writing has appeared in the 105 Meadowlark Reader. She lives on the Kansas prairie, where she built her own anchorhold and continues her practice of attentive solitude.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Folde Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798994987612
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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