The Distance Home by Paula Saunders stupa sandalwood

sandalwood

by loosening the clinging attitudes that Buddhists call "grasping at self

desire into acceptance

They are the reflections of our own past mental habits

The Distance Home by Paula Saunders stupa sandalwoodTitle: The Distance Home Secondary Title: A Novel Description: In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictionsthe ruggedness and the promiseof the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide, and where, for most, there are limited