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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd | Mary Rose O'Reilley

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Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich N'hat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world.

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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd | Mary Rose O'Reilley

so-so

Hmm, I was torn on this one. Her writing is really incredible and reflective, but I also think you have to be in the mood for a book like this and I wasn‘t in that headspace. I love reflective books on a single topic, but the number of entries on sheep anuses and poop references could be seen as fun/funny, but I wasn‘t there. This is a definite- it‘s not you, it‘s me book.

ReadingEnvy I felt the same and didn't finish it. 7y

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