Heartwood: The pleasure of staying present to what is.
A walking interview with writer Barbara Becker
“Death had slipped quietly into my home and declared herself my teacher,” Barbara Becker writes in the introduction to her debut memoir, Heartwood, The Art of Living With the End in Mind.
It is rare that a book makes me cry. Heartwood is written with such tenderness and beauty and it has helped me see death as my teacher, too.
Barbara Beck…