threshold classroom impermanent contemplative

books:

The Garden at Night: Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life

2 reviews
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Heinemann, 2005

The Garden at Night: Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life
This is an inspiring read for anyone experiencing burnout in any profession. As a teacher, the read was a search of the soul. Awesome!

Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice

4 reviews
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Boynton/Cook, 1998

A wonderful reflection on life; Secrets to contemplate!
This is an absolute gem! A very quick read yet will not leave you when you put it down. O'Reilley's views on contemplative teaching have not come easy. She has questioned her practices as we all do, but somehow she has excepted herself and others shortcomings and has proceeded in giving us not necessarily a guidebook, but a "give it a try" book that should help us all through this journey ...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

17 reviews
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Milkweed Editions, 2001

Profound, Poetic, Perfect
In the past 15 years, I've read two, "personal memoir"-type books by women writers that totally blew my doors off: Terry Tempest Williams' "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" and Mary Rose O'Reilly's "The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd." Very different books, at the end of the day, but both women think and write from deep religious ...

The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology

5 reviews
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Milkweed Editions, 2008

Fascinating Read!
What a fascinating book! I would highly recommend this read. O'Reilley's way with words is mesmerizing. Her book makes you stop and think about your own history, your own family with all its quirks. Her sense of humor and deep reflection on her life make this book a true pleasure to read.

Half Wild: Poems (Walt Whitman Award)

1 review
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Louisiana State University Press, 2006

Half Wild?--Mary O'Reilley shows us how to remember
With the economy of a haiku and a magnanimity only the bravest can approach, Mary O'Reilley has thrown a rope ladder all the way down to the nethermost part of us that for so long we tried to pretend wasn't there. This gorgeous, prize-winning, indispensible collection features spare but generous trips into the natural and human world that offer means for our battered, humiliated spirit to catch a ...

The Peaceable Classroom

2 reviews
Mary Rose O'Reilley

Boynton/Cook, 1993

A tao of teaching
Politicians and Superintendents should find this book in their required reading list this year. Principals who are humanitarians will have another arrow in their quiver for the view of learning over state evaluation. Teachers who love kids and not tests will love the views put forth in this book. Written as an application towards writing and literature, I am looking forwad to using the ideas ...