Name: Amy Ellis Nutt
Where you live: Watchung, N.J.
What you do as a vocation or avocation?
I am a journalist and author
Your two favorite books:
Walker Percy’s “The Second Coming”
Your two favorite songs:
Van Morrison “The Bright Side of the Road,” 
Why you are interested in spirituality? Without it, there is no meaning.
Your favorite quote: “And what were thou, and earth and stars and sea,
If to the human mind’s imagining,
Silence and solitude were vacancy?”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, from his poem, “Mont Blanc”)
Your favorite web sites: aldaily.com; brainpickings.org
Your hero? My mother and father
A spiritual lesson you hope to learn? Acceptance
A place in the world where you feel spiritually “connected?” Anywhere in nature
Editor’s Note: Also check out the great NPR “Fresh Air” interview with Amy and Jon Sarkin about her book Shadows Bright as Glass.