Title: The Sewing Room and Other Essays: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love, and Work
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670841137
ISBN 13: 9780670841134
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 13 ounces

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A mother, grandmother, and ordained Episcopal priest reflects on the human condition in anecdotes about sewing machines and the passage of time; about her father's second marriage; about the extremities of life; and about everyday conflicts. 12,500 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.

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This collection of reflective essays reveals the many-sided life of a pioneering female Episcopal minister. Currently on staff at the Seaman's Church Institute in New York City, Crafton is a wife, mother and grandmother whose ministry has taken her to comfortable suburban and large urban parishes as well as to the waterfront. The essays, "a string of people's moments," illuminate these phases of her life as Crafton ruminates on the human condition and the passage of time. In a book that ranges widely--from homelessness to a remarried parent--two especially compelling essays on dying stand out. "To Be or Not to Be" weighs the death with dignity/death with technology impasse, emphasizing the great desire for life. "If I Should Die Before I Wake" urges acceptance of the inevitable, which frees people to live in the moment. Expressing an ecumenical and gently feminist sensibility, Crafton touches on important human concerns with light grace and common sense.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This collection of about 40 simple but profound short essays are reflections on human experience by an Episcopal priest and mother who has been a port chaplain at the New York Seamen's Church Institute as well as a priest at Trinity Church on Wall Street. Often, her essays quietly deal with conflict between her feminist politics--which, as the title essay explains, led her to denigrate her grandmother's sewing accomplishments--and her awareness of life's brevity and the creativity she needs to express--via sewing. Other essays include "My Mother and I Have Gotten Along Really Well Since She Died" and "Ted Who Has AIDS." Highly recommended for public and church libraries.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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