Book
Together, Alone
by Susan Albert
- Published
- 2009
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Pages
- 183
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6430349-together-alone?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 17–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
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Together, Alone opens in 1985, as Albert leaves a successful, if rootless, career as a university administrator and begins a new life as a freelance writer, wife, and homesteader on a patch of rural land northwest of Austin. She vividly describes the work of creating a home at Meadow Knoll, a place in which she and Bill raised their own food and animals, while working together and separately on writing projects. Once her sense of home and partnership was firmly established, Albert recalls how she had to find its counterbalance—a place where she could be alone and explore those parts of the self that only emerge in solitude. For her, this place was Lebh Shomea, a silent monastic retreat. In writing about her time at Lebh Shomea, Albert reveals the deep satisfaction she finds in belonging to a community of people who have chosen to be apart and experience silence and solitude.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780292719705
- ISBN-10
- 0292719701
Tags
Family LifeNonfictionRelationshipsScience-PhilosophySelf-Improvement