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Gail Straub. The Ashokan Way
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The Ashokan Way. Landscape’s Path into Consciousness
by Gail Straub
2. Dedication
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Contents
4. Also by the Author
5. Foreword. by Stephen Cope
6. Introduction
Winter
November. High Point. My Living Mountain
December. Mountain Coming. To Rest in Motion
Ghosts and Voices. Haunt this Place
My Father. White Mountains and Red Blood
January. Exactly Who Is Witnessing. All This Beauty?
Praying in the Cathedral of the Ashokan. My Mother and Faith
A Walk with John Burroughs. Appreciating Winter’s Gifts
February. Shape Shifting, Snow Desert to the Sahara
That Which Is Evident Is Also Mysterious
Loon Call
Spring
March. Queen Eagle and Women of the Globe. For What Have We Been Put On This Earth?
The Spring Equinox. On Landscape and Faith
Easter Sunday. The Sanctuary of Landscape and Community
April. Boating and Fishing. Catskill Lessons on Living and Dying
Winged Guardians of the Invisible
Landscape and Writing as Spiritual Practice
May. Antonio Vivaldi Visits the Ashokan
Heaven Here On Earth. Reconciliation of Opposites
Mother Mary in The Place of Many Fishes
Summer
June. One Design of the Moving and Vivacious Many
The Mountains and Master Dogen. Three Teachings
Dharma as True Nature. Strawberry Moon, Extended Twilight, and Tejaswi
July. Crows. When the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary
Four Black Bears. Into the Long Body of the Ashokan Way
Bald Head Island
August. The Maverick Spirit. In These Mountains and In Me
Owls on the Full Moon
A Love Affair’s Lineage
Autumn
September. Transmute the Wound into Light
Autumn Equinox. The Delicious Nearby Freedom of Death
Woodstock’s Landscape and Its Effect on the Soul
October. Nature, Art, and Spirituality Meet Their Strange Bedfellow: Technology
Being in Love as Inside and Outside Disappear
Knightower. Circling Around An Impossible Dream
November. Just Like You, I Want to be Happy. Just Like You, I Want to be Free of Suffering
Thanksgiving Day. This Watcher’s Journal Comes to An End
1. Acknowledgments
2. About the Author
3. About the Artist
4. About the Publisher
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Praise for The Ashokan Way
“In this beautiful, elegant, and important book, Gail Straub takes us on a year of walks in the landscape she calls home. But she’s really describing a walk we all can take no matter where we live-the walk that bridges all the landscapes of our being: our connection to place, to each other, to our inner sense of self and outer sense of responsibility to the earth and its peoples. Quoting the ancient I Ching, she writes about “coming to rest in motion.” She should know: a world traveler and social activist, Gail brings the steady calm she finds in the mountains to her work at peacemaking in a troubled world. ”
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“Gail Straub has written a book that addresses with great insight one of the central spiritual questions of our time—how do we care for others while still caring for ourselves? Her book is a must for everyone seeking answers.”
–Caroline Myss, author, Anatomy of the Spirit
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