Cloud Cover: a memoir of perseverance and transformation

REVISED OCTOBER 2014. Born in Boston in 1953, traveling the world, eschewing a college career at Brown University in Rhode Island, in the '70s, Margot Milcetich turns her focus to meditation for peace of mind. Eventually, she lands in Kent, Ohio, in a home by a lake, married with two children, trying to find herself, and creating an extraordinary life in an ordinary "householder" package. Meditation and yoga help her to heal herself, living in the beauty of nature, enabling her to transcend a devastating diagnosis, become an equal, loving partner to her spouse, find meaningful work and ultimately expressing her voice. She integrates within herself what felt unmoored and fractured. Today's yoga practitioners will especially appreciate this account of how yoga and meditation transcend our circumstances. Milcetich offers a glimpse into the non-traditional life when yoga was a strange, exotic practice, especially in the traditional Midwestern landscape. The inner freedom she fought so hard to achieve, she finds in the lap of the world. €œSpace in Iowa was vast. Storms blew in with thick banks of clouds crossed with lightning displays. Sunset and moonrise were both visible at once in an orange sky bringing a soaring feeling of living on a turning globe. My eyes were closed as I lay back. I could not see out, but I could see with a kind of inner eye. I was filled with a sense of expansion, clarity, and peace. My meditations had never been as deep as this. They were filled with thoughts€¦€