Butterfly in the Snow

Jessie has always been apilgrim. It s just that directions havenot always been so clear. At first shethought the destination lay in society s council. Her dresses must be ever clean, her mannersstrictly controlled. But even with thebest of intentions, a road that narrow cannot contain the romanticism of youth,the pain of a mother s love, the restlessness of a creative mind and theultimate longing for something a bit deeper.Meet a woman striving forspirituality in a world of laundry and bills, where grief and heartache drop inunannounced and society s myth of perfection shatters under the stress ofcommon circumstance. The demons shebattles are as familiar as a meddling mother-in-law or dominating husband, asexotic as vague prophecy or ancient curse, and as immobilizing as nationalterror. Fortunately, hers is also aworld of unlikely angels, where a tea-sipping Navy wife, a piano teacher in arocking chair or even an ex-Nazi official might help light the way.This woman s story makes it clearthat the spiritual path does not have to lead through a chapel or temple, or upto the Himalayas. For today s seeker, it s time to improvise. Jessie is a female Siddhartha of a modernworld, where enlightenment is as unpredictable as love and life in afast-changing world of travel and technology.