Anne Yarbrough

Bowl of Light Anne Yarbrough

Anne Yarbrough and her husband Greg Brown moved from city life in the United States to a remote Nova Scotia island, looking for something they couldn't name but felt was missing in their lives. Bowl of Light is Anne's record of their years on the island. Bowl of Light is a story about turning away from an over-developed, consumer-driven culture and gradually learning to embrace a quieter life in a more subtle world. It's told in fragments, the way life usually happens and the way we are usually able to make some meaning of it all, unfolding day by day and season by season. It is an explorer's tale about a place both near at hand and far away, both familiar and strange, and riddled with hidden spots and secret things. Bowl of Light is a meditation in bits and pieces on the power of place: an island made up of rivulets and ruins, bogs, boulders, ancient stone walls, fallen dead wood and spruce forests, all of it wrapped in water and silence and light; and wrapped, too, in that which we call holy, for want of some better word.