Eileen Delehanty Pearkes is the author of The Geography of Memory: Recovering Stories of a Landscape's First People, Sono Nis Press, and The Glass Seed: The Fragile Beauty of Heart, Mind and Memory, about her mother's Alzheimer's, Timeless Books, 2007. She writes regularly for ascent, a magazine described as "yoga for an inspired life." About the motivation behind The Glass Seed : "I sat down in an act of defiance to write something that I hadn't found anywhere else."

Topics: Cleya McDougall, editor at Timeless Books; Kootenay Bay Ashram; poet, thinker and activist Gary Snyder; Scar Tissue, by Michael Ignatieff; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, by Barbara G. Walker. Eileen Delehanty Pearkes can be seen on YouTube.

Listen to her conversation with Terry Glavin, at the 40-minute mark in Show #31.