After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. His new memoir is Aflame.

These days, I can’t stop thinking about the hazy morning in June 1990, when I walked all the way up our narrow mountain road in Santa Barbara, Calif., past exhausted firemen, past houses reduced to cinders and the skeletons of abandoned cars, until I reached the spot in the hills where our home was a pile of debris.

Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence ...

is a powerful recital of Iyer’s experiences and learnings from his retreats to a monastery in Big Sur in California. Pico Iyer is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books translated in ...

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I live in Canyon Country California. Anytime a slight breeze blows it seems like our street is the only street that has its power shut off. Over the past almost 3 weeks we've had maybe 24 hours of ...

Pico Iyer makes time for retreats at a Benedictine hermitage in California. In “Aflame: Learning From Silence,” he writes about finding clarity.