Butterfly in the Snow

<div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Jessie has always been apilgrim.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It's just that directions havenot always been so clear.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>At first shethought the destination lay in society's council.<spanstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Her dresses must be ever clean her mannersstrictly controlled.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But even with thebest of intentions a road that narrow cannot contain the romanticism of youththe pain of a mother's love the restlessness of a creative mind and theultimate longing for something a bit deeper.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Meet a woman striving forspirituality in a world of laundry and bills where grief and heartache drop inunannounced and society's myth of perfection shatters under the stress ofcommon circumstance.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The demons shebattles are as familiar as a meddling mother-in-law or dominating husband asexotic as vague prophecy or ancient curse and as immobilizing as nationalterror.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Fortunately hers is also aworld of unlikely angels where a tea-sipping Navy wife a piano teacher in arocking chair or even an ex-Nazi official might help light the way.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>This woman's story makes it clearthat the spiritual path does not have to lead through a chapel or temple or upto the <st1:place>Himalayas</st1:place>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>For today's seeker it's time to improvise.<spanstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Jessie is a female Siddhartha of a modernworld where enlightenment is as unpredictable as love and life in afast-changing world of travel and technology. </p></div>