Clearer to Ourselves presents to its readers prose and poetry covering the span of Mary Talley's adult life as she sought to make meaning. In partnership with Bettie Currie, her partner of nearly 50 years, Mary Talley lived a life of spiritual exploration as she experimented with writing about her life, their lives together, and her discoveries and observations along the way. The core of her life was her search for truth and meaning. Yoked firmly with that spiritual search was her radical commitment to living the quality of life those spiritual findings led her to live. Born in Waco, Texas and...