Ethel Marie: How a Minnesota Farm Girl Helped Me to Understand Life, Love, and Human Destiny

In this book a long-time academician recalls his life and the shaping
influence of his mother, a woman of plain origins who gave him insight, by her
example, into the timeless wisdom of the world's great spiritual traditions.
This story, in part, is a memoir of Kelly Nicholson's youth and subsequent
adventures. Beneath its surface lies the enduring question of how we might decide,
amid all we see and hear, what life means and where we are ultimately headed. Its
thesis is that we gain insigh...