Ebook {Epub PDF} Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris

 · A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris. Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. In thoughtful, discerning prose, she explores how we Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  · Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Dakota.: A Spiritual Geography. Kathleen Norris. HMH, Apr 6, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 7 Reviews. “A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about 4/5(7). A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris. #; Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. In thoughtful, discerning prose, she explores how we come to Cited by:

Kathleen Norris moved to South Dakota from the city, after she inherited her grandparents home. Her reflections on her home state are deeply wise as well as folksy. The land is in her blood, and reading her book is a privileged opportunity to understand the deeply holy nature of the place. She presents a people and a world of tensions. 35 likes. Like. "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.". ― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. tags: humor-living. 23 likes. Like. "To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.". Dakota A Spiritual Geography. By Kathleen Norris. In this classic study of the spirituality of place, first published in , poet Kathleen Norris writes about life in Lemmon, a small town of 1, near the border between North and South Dakota. She and her husband have resided there in the house built by her grandparents in

A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris. Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. In thoughtful, discerning prose, she explores how we come to inhabit the world we see, and how that world also inhabits us. I live in an American desert, without much company, without television, because I am trying to know where on earth I am. Dakota discipline, like monastic discipline, requires me to know. Kathleen Norris, Dakota. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography is the kind of book that I am often drawn to – a spiritual memoir about a life lived faithfully in a particular place, and that digs so deeply into its own circumstances that it invariably offers wisdom that is universal. In Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris writes about the stark, scarcely populated landscapes of western North and South Dakota. Norris writes of a harsh and beautiful country, of small.