Winnowing: A Memoir of Spiritual Longing in Secular Life

Kira Higgs had a promising career, a welcoming home, carefully tended relationships; by all conventional measures she had mastered the art of life. But when she notices cracks in the foundation, she embarks on a very different journey: one that dismantles what she thought she knew, and reveals something deeper in the process. Winnowing: A Memoir of Sacred Longings in Secular Life is about how spiritual growth rarely presents itself in the form we expect. A driven and curious child, a young Higgs received unfulfilling answers to what seemed a simple question: how can we truly know there’s such a thing as a god, beyond taking it on faith? So began a lifelong pursuit to understand the true nature of things — both visible and unseen.