Icons of Loss and Grace

It is Through Brief Moments in our lives that the spiritual most often communicates itself. Fleeting as they are, these small encounters with the "familiar wild" -- titmice at a window feeder, a butterfly caught in a spider's web, gaillardia in full bloom -- instruct us in dealing with change and loss. They are the icons that point not so much to answers, but to a way of living.

Susan Hanson is a lecturer in English at Texas State University.

Introduction

xi

Innocence

Instructed by a Seed: Or, How the Garden Tells Us What It Knows

3

(7)

The Act of Attention

10

(4)

Where It All Begins

14

(3)

The Migration of Cranes

17

(3)

Dayflowers

20

(3)

Angles and Edges

23

(4)

Small World

27

(3)

Seeing the World Up Close

30

(3)

In the Toyah Valley

33

(4)

Homecoming

37

(3)

Beauty in the Sandhills

40

(3)

Autumn Currents

43

(3)

Faking the Pulse of the Earth

46

(3)

A December Walk in the Woods

49

(4)

To Be at Home

53

(6)

Loss

Elegy for a Jay

59

(3)

Earth to Earth

62

(3)

Wild Things

65

(4)

Tableau in the Grass

69

(3)

The Sound of Water

72

(4)

Simple Pleasures

76

(2)

The Infinite Set

78

(3)

Dark Skies

81

(4)

A Cry in the Night

85

(4)

Cicada

89

(4)

Perfection in Summer

93

(3)

Where Goodness Goes

96

(3)

Why Write about Nature

99

(3)

Lost Maples

102

(4)

The Scent of Sycamore

106

(3)

In Search of the Wisdom of the Body

109

(3)

Memories Blooming Eternally in the Mind

112

(5)

Grace

Brushed by a Thousand Wings

117

(3)

Knowing Our Place

120

(4)

Personal Space and the Mysteries of the Universe

124

(3)

Looking for the Fire

127

(3)

Simple Thoughts about Having Enough

130

(3)

Gills

133

(3)

Homeland Security: Safe at Home in the World

136

(9)

Experiencing the Fall

145

(3)

The World of Sense

148

(3)

A Preference for Winter

151

(3)

Naming Day

154

(3)

Entering the Emptiness at Lebh Shomea

157

(4)

Living Our Lives as Play

161

(3)

The Subtle Signs of Spring

164

(3)

Traveling without Goals

167

(3)

Learning to Love the World

170

(3)

Listening to Owls

173

(4)

Energy from the Earth

177

(3)

The Season of Empty Nests and Hope

180

(3)

In Ordinary Time

183

(3)

Harvesting Seeds of Trust

186

(3)

On Holy Ground

189

(3)

Icons of Loss and Grace

192

(9)

Acknowledgments

201

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