Woman Overboard: How Passion Saved My Life

Are you just going through the motions of life? Life can be hard at times. The blows may contract once wide open horizons. It may be tempting to give in or give up, to stay busy or looked engaged with the memory and pretense of living. But it's not the same. What does it mean to be alive? Kadlecek peers into the multifaceted meanings of passion through the lens of her own life. Follow her from a middle-class suburban existence on the brink of tedium to a life awakened to the gifts in and around her, a life that embraces the new and unexpected. Explore the paradoxes of pain and beauty, life and death, love and compassion, work and adventure. "Each of these helped me see that this question of being alive demands utter abandon but is somehow as familiar and safe as home," she writes. "To forgo the possibility of ever again feeling real joy, fear, hope or excitement, the very idea of such complacency evoked terror in me. I'm suddenly thankful for pillows and roofs, for peaches and towels, for feet and waves and soft mushy sand." Jack London said, "The function of man is to live, not exist." Kadlecek will help you shake the resulting inertia when life has thrown you overboard. In this journey, you'll find a lifeline to a more joyous, full life.