Bücher von Margaret Ashelman

What started as a meeting of minds quickly became a melting of hearts.What did I expect at our first gathering, a continuing education class in memoir writing?I knew, of course, that these students would be seekers, thoughnot of my own 60s generation. These were people of my parents'age, who had families and careers and a whole lifetime of friends-and then somewhere in midlife started over in this community ofmeditators in Fairfield, Iowa, to help create world peace.I didn't anticipate how deeply they would connect to writing.Each of their stories, so simple, so honest, revealed deep truths oflife. I could never have predicted how stimulating, how rewardingand how fun it would be to teach them. These students' minds weresettled and alert. Instructing them was like dropping a stone in aquiet pond-the ripples reached the far ends of the universe andbounced back with even greater power.There was something magical about our meetings .....