Their numbers may be dwindling but the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose lead upbeat lives. An observer who seeks to join their ranks observed: “the sisters… were the freest women she knew. They weren’t preoccupied with makeup or clothes, with how they measured up against other women.” The women pursue their eclectic hobbies, one plays the electric guitar and has both a myspace page and a blog, another does yo-yo tricks. There are seven women preparing to take their final vows at the convent. And the sisters trust that “if sisters disappear, God must be making way for a different kind of religious life for women, something reconfigured and updated for modern times.”