I picked up this old copy of the writings of St. Therese, including "Story of a Soul" and various other documents, at a used book sale at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Albuquerque about a year ago.

Since then, it has traveled with me to work virtually every day, as well as to such far-flung locales as Dallas, State Colege Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, San Diego, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. I read about one or two pages every morning, as a simple act of meditative study.

This old, cloth-bound edition has seen better days, and recently, this section of the spine finally succumbed to my daily abuse.