A French contemplative-travel feast. The provencal sun pours across the pages, as the reader is gently beckoned to bask in the creative challenges, deep peace, and immense joys of a contemplative orientation in the world--as seen through the lens of the author's Sabbatical season spent in a ravine-edged hermitage, embraced by an ancient olive grove, nestled within a Medieval French village in the Maritime Alps. Gifts for the reader abound in the exploration of such themes as presence, silence, simplicity, balance, community, generosity. This contemplative memoir celebrates the gift of sacred...