5/11/2023 0 Comments May sarton solitude![]() ![]() ![]() This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton. ![]() Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. A few moments of desultory conversation with dear Arnold Miner, when he comes to take the trash, may calm an inner storm. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. THE VALUE of solitude one of its values is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude-both an exhilarating and terrifying state. ![]() In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life-not friends, not even love, but writing. “Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is richness of self.” -May Sarton wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer ). ![]()
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