bFrom beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys--inner and outer--zigzagging around the world and home again.b pHere, Natalie Goldberg, a writer both energized and enlightened Julia Cameron, shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexican desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylan's birthplace and to Larry McMurtry's dusty Texas ghost town of rare books. We feel her deep hunger while she sits zazen in a monastery in Japan, and her profound loss when she hears of the passing of a dear friend while teaching in the French countryside. pThrough it all, she remains grounded in a life informed by two constants the practices of writing and of Zen. With humor and insight, Natalie encircles around the essential questions these paths compel her toward Where does this life lead Who are we pThis is a book to be