Steady Song of the Heart: Memoir and Meditation

Susan Jean Perschbacher

Abstract

These memoirist essays interweave my life stories with sojourns in nature and my spiritual journey. It is an account similar to those of other women growing up in the 1950s, a time of pretense that social problems did not exist. It is a description of my desire to age gracefully, accepting my life-its mistakes, imperfections, fulfillments and joys-in order to find peace.