- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Biography / Autobiography
Full Description
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully written memoir, she movingly describes how she has experienced place, marriage, and aloneness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and writing partner, Bill Albert.
Together, Alone opens in 1985, as Albert leaves a successful, if rootless, career as a university administrator and begins a new life as a freelance writer, wife, and homesteader on a patch of rural land northwest of Austin. She vividly describes the work of creating a home at Meadow Knoll, a place in which she and Bill raised their own food and animals, while working together and separately on writing projects. Once her sense of home and partnership was firmly established, Albert recalls how she had to find its counterbalance-a place where she could be alone and explore those parts of the self that only emerge in solitude. For her, this place was Lebh Shomea, a silent monastic retreat. In writing about her time at Lebh Shomea, Albert reveals the deep satisfaction she finds in belonging to a community of people who have chosen to be apart and experience silence and solitude.
Contents
Prologue. Documenting a Life
Chapter One. Meadow Knoll: Getting Here, Alone Together
Chapter Two. Where in the World
Chapter Three. Moving Through, Moving On, Moving In
Chapter Four. Dwelling, Rooting, Learning
Chapter Five. Naming
Chapter Six. All Our Food Is Souls
Chapter Seven. Gaining, Losing
Chapter Eight. Right Livelihood
Chapter Nine. Alone, Together, Apart
Chapter Ten. Lebh Shomea: Getting Here, Alone
Chapter Eleven. Silence
Chapter Twelve. Seeing Through Time
Chapter Thirteen. Spirits of the Place: El Desierto de los Muertos
Chapter Fourteen. Plains Fare
Chapter Fifteen. Storms
Chapter Sixteen. The Kenedy Women
Chapter Seventeen. Belonging to the Community of the Land
Chapter Eighteen. In Place and Free
Notes
