A literary spiritual memoir for seekers, skeptics, and the quietly curious.
Winnowing: A Memoir of Spiritual Longing in Secular Life
A literary spiritual memoir for seekers, skeptics, and the quietly curious.
A literary spiritual memoir for seekers, skeptics, and the quietly curious.
A literary spiritual memoir for seekers, skeptics, and the quietly curious.
Winnowing is a literary spiritual memoir for seekers, skeptics, meditators, thoughtful professionals, and the quietly curious — readers drawn to the deeper questions that surface in the course of a life.
Written in short, self-contained chapters arranged by theme rather than chronology, the book traces one woman’s search for spiritual depth inside a thoroughly secular life: work, love, loss, ambition, friendship, mistakes, meditation, and moments of unexpected grace.
This is not a how-to, a doctrine, or a conversion story. It is a lived inquiry — honest, contemplative, and beautifully written — for anyone who senses there may be more to experience than ordinary life appears to offer.
Available in paperback and ebook through your local bookstore, or online via Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Kira Higgs is an author, strategist, structural consultant and lifelong athlete. She maintains a dedicated meditation practice that continually sharpens her attention to perception and the subtle ways life rearranges itself from within. Through long study and engagement with teachers, students, and fellow practitioners across traditions, Kira has cultivated an appreciation for both the mystery and the practicality of spiritual development.
Kira writes from lived experience rather than instruction, bringing to the page clear-eyed honesty and a contemplative sensibility.
If your book club or study group would like to include Kira in a live discussion, please get in touch! She typically participates for up to 45 minutes at no charge for clubs that pre-purchase the book in paperback or ebook format.
