Shakespeare scholar and anthroposophist, John O'Meara in this memoir traces the main patterns of his life experience through and beyond the publication of his associated works. The record he leaves is a moving description of a soul's journey through the labyrinth of meetings that go into the making of a life: a revealing document about an author's struggle to come to terms with the profound demands a life can make. Along the way John O'Meara offers us images richly evocative of the landscape and cultures of Montreal and Quebec, where he was born and lived for most of the life he records.