Transcendence can come in many forms. Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O`Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O`Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn ad her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich N`hat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in `climbing out of the body` but rather in existing fully in the world.