https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2H3vmtYoe8
Award-winning journalist Judith Valente offers practical guidance for living “la dolce vita” as the Italians do. She discusses with host Jean P. Kelly her new book, The Italian Soul: How to Savor the Full Joys of Life, sharing achievable approaches to life/work balance, community connectedness and awareness of the transcendent in every moment.

Judith Valente is an awarding-winning author, print and broadcast journalist, poet, and essayist whose books and retreats help others achieve a more contemplative life. The former reporter for The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, contributor to PBS and NPR, and Pulitzer Prize finalist is also a lay associate of the Benedictine monastery Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, Learn more at www.judithvalente.com
Author-read excerpt as guided mediation coming soon.