"A lyrical and honest portrait of illness and the way it changes life and faith, from the award-winning author of Things Seen and Unseen. In the winter of 2009, Nora Gallagher was told she had an inflamed optic nerve, cause unknown, that if untreated would leave her blind. With this news, and the search for a diagnosis and treatment, her once busy and fast-moving life tunneled into a quieter country she calls Oz: unfamiliar, slower, dee ..."
Changing Light(Reprint) by NoraGallagher Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27755-8, ISBN: 0-307-27755-0
"Nora Gallagher’s elegant debut novel is a love story set in Los Alamos in 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb.During the last summer of World War II, in the beautiful high desert of New Mexico, a young painter, Eleanor Garrigue, discovers a delirious man lying by the river. She takes him in and cares for him, not knowing that he is Leo Kavan, a physicist who has fled Los Alamos after a deadly radiation accident. ..."
Practicing Resurrection(Updated) A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace by NoraGallagher Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70563-2, ISBN: 0-375-70563-5
"In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim her own “wild life” and a sense of the sacred in the world compels her to assess everything: her marriage, her writing career, and her comm ..."
The Sacred Meal The Ancient Practices Series by NoraGallagher, Phyllis Tickle Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Thomas Nelson ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-4606-6, ISBN: 0-8499-4606-9
"The sacred meal that is part of our faith does more than connect us to the holy, it connects us to each other. "I think Jesus wanted his disciples and everyone who came after him to remember what they had together. What they made together. What it meant to be together. How the things he did could not have been done without them." In her inimitable style of memoir and personal reflection, Nora Gallagher explores the beauty and mystery of ..."
Things Seen and Unseen A Year Lived in Faith by NoraGallagher Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77549-2, ISBN: 0-679-77549-8
""I came to this church five years ago as a tourist and ended up a pilgrim," writes Nora Gallagher, speaking of her year at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara. It started with an occasional Sunday visit, a shy toe dip into the Episcopal Church. Eventually she delved into a yearlong journey to discover her faith and a relationship with God, using the Christian calendar as her compass. What Kathleen Norris did for the langu ..."
"For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools' best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign and communication strategy, grassroots organizing, and lobbying as well as working with business, fundraising in uncertain times and using ne ..."
"This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better. One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that Nora Gallagher nearly skipped, her doctor said, “Darn.” Her right optic nerve was inflamed, the cause unknown, a condition that if left untreat ..."
The Sacred Meal (The Ancient Practices Series) by NoraGallagher, Phyllis Tickle Hardcover, 143 Pages, Published 2009 by Thomas Nelson Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8499-0092-1, ISBN: 0-8499-0092-1
"[CDATA]The sacred meal that is part of our faith does more than connect us to the holy. It connects us to each other. "I think Jesus wanted his disciples and everyone who came after him to remember what they had together. What they made together. What it meant to be together. How the things he wanted them to do could not be done alone. How the things he did could not have been done without them." In her inimitable style of memoir and pe ..."
Changing Light A Novel by NoraGallagher Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42451-9, ISBN: 0-375-42451-2
"Nora Gallagher’s elegant debut novel, Changing Light, is a love story set in Los Alamos during the summer of 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb.During the last summer of the war, in the beautiful New Mexico desert, a man and a woman come together: Eleanor Garrigue, a young painter from New York, and Leo Kavan, a neutron physicist. The story begins when Eleanor finds a delirious man lying by the river near her h ..."
Practicing Resurrection(1st Edition) A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace by NoraGallagher Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40594-5, ISBN: 0-375-40594-1
"Nora Gallagher’s compelling story of a woman at a crossroads, discerning what to do and how to live after her brother’s death, is a continuation of the spiritual journey she chronicled in her acclaimed book, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith.When her beloved brother, Kit, dies, Gallagher finds her own life no longer makes sense. Stretched between meetings, always ten minutes late, increasingly drained of surprise and humor, ..."
Things Seen and Unseen(1st Edition) A Year Lived in Faith by NoraGallagher Hardcover, 241 Pages, Published 1998 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-45132-7, ISBN: 0-679-45132-3
""Faith is not about belief in something irrational or about a blind connection to something unreal. It's about a gathering, an accumulation of events and experiences of a different order . . . the longing a soul has to find its shape in the world." In the late eighties, Nora Gallagher entered Trinity Episcopal Church as a tourist and ended up a pilgrim. What she wanted was peace, she thought. What she got was something entirely differe ..."
"During a routine eye exam that Nora Gallagher nearly skipped, her doctor found a condition that if left untreated would cause her to lose her sight. And so began Nora’s departure from ordinary life and her travels in what she calls Oz, the land of the sick. This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of her experience, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better."
"Even for those of us who can't steer big contributions, the professional can
develop a lot of relationships and pick up a ... Lobbying Levine, Bertram J. The
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The Sacred Meal The Ancient Practices Series by NoraGallagher, Phyllis Tickle Digital, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Thomas Nelson Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4185-8072-8, ISBN: 1-4185-8072-4
"Arthur Gross-Schaefer, the rabbi who presided that evening, told us that families
and friends, the congregations of temples, are meant to live in these fragile
places for seven days, even sleeping there, under stars that seem much nearer
than ..."
"Explains the correct way to use punctuation, including the period, question mark, comma, semicolon, colon, brackets, ellipses, and quotation marks"
Simple Pleasures Wonderful and Wild Things to Do at Home by NoraGallagher Published 1981 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-04578-9, ISBN: 0-201-04578-8
Simple Pleasures Wonderful and Wild Things to Do at Home by NoraGallagher Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1981 by Addison-Wesley ISBN-13: 978-0-201-04579-6, ISBN: 0-201-04579-6
"If you have lipstick on your collar , William Rushton , author of Super Pig ( London
: Queen Anne Press Division , MacDonald and James , 1976 ) , suggests you
have a lady kiss the shirt all over . A Kids ' Jackson Pollock Table Talk T ang an."
"My agent, Philippa Brophy, read the manuscript and insisted on the revisions that turned out to be essential. ... Ellin Barret, Marie Schoeff, Ann Jaqua, Jodie Ireland , Elizabeth Garnsey, Cynthia Gorney, Acknowledgments A Note About the Author."