Review:
The husband and wife team who compiled Sanctuaries: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats have collaborated again to present a comprehensive database listing heavenly products and services from over 250 religious, spiritual, and cooperative communities. Find out about Ghost Ranch retreats in Abiqua, New Mexico--the same terrain that Georgia O'Keefe haunted for years. Other unusual discoveries include sacred recipe, mail-order caramels from the Catholic Trapistine sisters in Dubuque, Iowa, and bicycle trailers from Cerro Gordo Community in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The calendar of annual events makes it possible to tap into a festival, pilgrimage, or celestial meditation any season of the year. A permanent catalog for dreaming, scheming, and year-round gift shopping. --Gail Hudson
From the Publisher:
This book was the brainchild of Robert Welsch, who at the time was the editor of Book of the Month Club's One Spirit Book Club. He asked me whether the Kellys, (otherwise known as the monastery mavens) would be interested in doing a book on all the things that monks and nuns to do support their habits (which is how I later described the book to everyone). If so, he offered to copublish it and make it a Main Selection of the club. This seemed such a terrific idea that we could not resist it--a no-lose situation not just for the book but also for its readers. Here was a way in which all of us who appreciated the tranquillity and space provided by retreat centers of every denomination (described in the Kellys Sanctuaries books) could support their favorite places by buying the stuff they produce and into the bargain we would be purchasing gifts and necessities that had been made with real love and attention.
--Toinette Lippe, Bell Tower, Editorial Director
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