[Letters & Comments]

Thank you so much for Don't Call Me Old.... I cried when I read it. Beautiful stuff... [MS has] a magical way of articulating what is at the essence of being human. I'm a 50-year-old helping professional, working with many 50-something women and feel MS's newest can help us feel 30 again, but with the wisdom of an 80-year-old sage... Am also so grateful to be rereading the bulk of her books....

[More Good News!]

I just ordered your newest ... planning to use [Don't Call Me Old...] at work for my education classes.... -- A reader

 

[A Glad Tidings Letter!]

You wrote me a letter in 2000, as a response to mine -- your encouragement was very helpful and [as a result] I started seeing a spiritual director, continued work with my spiritual exercises, started a Christian Meditation group in a local church and
found meaningful work in a retirement home. Also recently connected with a group of women from different denominations and founded "our" own monastic group. Ever so thankful for you and your books! -- A reader

I just started Ordinary People As Monks & Mystics... fabulous book...which [I'll probably reread and also give to others.] My 11-year-old daughter was also inspired by it [because] she has the capacity to understand that her 'true' self is where she must get her values from... and succeed. [Being very musical, she agrees with Abraham Maslow and his] quote at the beginning of Chapter 7 in how she feels...

...in the peak experience we usually feel at the peak of our powers...
more intelligent, perceptive, wittier, stronger, or more graceful
than at other times. .. at concert pitch, at the top of [our] form...
... not only subjectively, but also... [observed by others].

(Quote paraphrased; cited in original.)