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One woman reclaims her sense of marvel by searching for the globe's most outstanding natural phenomena Heartfelt and awe inspiring, Leigh Ann Henion's Phenomenal is a moving story of physical grandeur and mental transformation, a voyage about the world that ultimately explores the depths of the real human heart. A journalist and young mom, Henion combines her own conflicted but joyful experiences as a mother or father with a breathtaking travel of the world's most incredible natural wonders. Phenomenal commences in hardship: with Henion deeply shaken by the beginning of her cherished son, shocked at the adversity a mother faces with a new baby. The lack of rest, the shrinking social circle, medical issues, all collide and force Henion to ask hard questions about our accepted wisdom on parenting and the lives of women. Convinced that the greatest key to joy - both her own which of her family - is based on periodically allowing herself to project into the wider world beyond home, Henion sets out on a worldwide trek to rekindle her sense of marvel. Henion's quest needs her far afield, but it quickly teaches her that flexibility is its own form of parenting, the one that ultimately allows her to meet her kid on his own conditions: with a visceral knowledge of the sweetness he experiences every day at the fresh " new world ". Whether sitting on the still-burning volcanoes of Hawaii or in the fearsome lightning storms of Venezuela, in the great animal actions of Tanzania or the graceful butterfly migrations of Mexico, Henion unveils in Phenomenal an environment of sublimity and revelation. Henion's religious wanderlust places her in the path of modern-day shamans, reindeer herders, and astrophysicists. She fits laypeople from all around the globe, from all strolls of life, each heading to great lengths to run after migrations, auroras, eclipses, and other phenomena.
