Shakespeare & Co. is pleased to host a reading by Nicole Dunn on Thursday, October 12, at 7:00 pm. The author will read selections from Tears Become Rain: Stories of Transformation and Healing Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press, October 2023) and will be in conversation with local author Jeremy Smith. This event is open to the public and free of charge.

In Tears Become Rain, thirty-two mindfulness practitioners around the world reflect on encountering the extraordinary teachings of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, who passed away in January 2022, exploring themes of coming home to ourselves, healing from grief and loss, facing fear, and building community and belonging.

Nicole Dunn has been a practitioner in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village mindfulness tradition for over 20-years. In 2002, at the age of 22, she founded the Be Here Now Sangha (spiritual community), a mindfulness & meditation group that continues to meet weekly every Monday night at the Open Way Mindfulness Center in Missoula. Nicole has been a writer for the Montana Woman magazine since 2016, with a column called Mindfulness Matters, and has been an active blogger since 2012, having crafted over 1,000 blog posts centered around her own experience of applying mindfulness to everyday life. Nicole is a poet, spoken word artist, hospice volunteer, musician, and a community organizer. She lives off-grid and without running water with her husband Mike near Superior Montana, where they have recently started a rustic, small-sprouting mindfulness practice center called Empty Mountain. For more information: EmptyMountain.org