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1 online resource |
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Women in Texas history |
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Women in Texas history series.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Essays -- 1. The Wonder and Power of Water -- 2. Dreaming Time -- 3. A Mother's Legacy -- 4. Growing Hope -- 5. "Everywhere There's Lots of Piggies ..." -- 6. Carnivorocity -- 7. James Cameron, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Nature of Nature -- 8. Massachusetts, Part I: Of Books and Houses and Hospitality -- 9. Massachusetts, Part II: Take a Walk on the Wild Side -- 10. Mapping the Geography of Hope: Our Place in the Wilderness -- 11. Sorry, Dad: Wilderness and Government Regulation |
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12. Purity, Ambiguity, and the Investment Portfolio -- 13. The Devil's Bargain: On Gardening and Violence -- 14. Still More on Violence: There Will Be Blood -- 15. Home with the Armadillo: A Love Letter to Texas -- 16. The Gift Economy -- 17. Made for You and Me: Some Thoughts on Private Property -- 18. Double Vision: Prophets, Tribalism, Eugenics, and the Environment -- 19. Cleaning Out the Mental Refrigerator: Niebuhr, McKibben, and Band-Aids -- 20. "A Cup of Tea, a Warm Bath, and a Brisk Walk" -- 21. Stubbing the Giant's Toe: Thoughts on Midwestern Agribusiness |
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22. Hall of Mirrors: The Lost Art of Conversation -- 23. Of Mothers and Mountains -- 24. Barbers, Bison Meat, and the Invisible Hand -- 25. "Sit. Stay. Stay! I Said STAY, Dammit!" -- 26. Faith, Bureaucracy, and Sheep: Thoughts on Changing One's Mind -- 27. Hosts, Guests, and Strangers: Thoughts on Hospitality -- 28. Singing in the Dark -- 29. The Rising Light -- 30. Shooting Holes in the Constitution: Some Thoughts on Guns and Violence -- 31. Meat and Flourishment: Carnivorocity, Take Two -- 32. A Field That Don't Yield: Writer's Block and the Language of Community |
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33. Lenten Reflections: Dead Trees, Bafflement, and Submission -- 34. Tragic Waste: Thoughts on the S-Word -- 35. Dorothea Brooke, Betty Friedan, and Big Ag -- 36. The Power of Poetry: Peace, Demons, Sonnets, and Resurrection -- 37. Learning to Listen, and Love -- 38. Gratuitous Beauty -- 39. Signs of the Times: Billboards, Property Rights, and the Enlightenment -- 40. Field Notes from Madroño Ranch: Bison and Birds -- 41. Silos: My Beef with Freeman Dyson -- 42. Food Science: Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, and the Old Testament -- 43. Children of Dawn: Sin in the Twenty-First Century |
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44. A Furry Flurry of Fully Furrowed Brows: My Beef with Freeman Dyson, Part II -- 45. Re-Wilding the Monocultural Self -- 46. Edsels and the Enlightenment: The Downside of Corporate Personhood -- 47. Field Notes from Inside My Head: Connecting Art and Commerce -- 48. Angels in the Dark -- 49. A Father's Legacy -- 50. Submission Guidelines -- 51. Take Me to the River -- 52. Bonfires in the Soul -- 53. Spring Creed -- 54. Microbiomes and Individual Identity: Alexander Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury -- 55. Jellyfish and Revelation |
| Summary |
"The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament-as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; and the founder of a residency program for environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country-permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic sensibility, and an ability to laugh-gently-at her fellow creatures and, especially, herself. Heather Kohout's essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an attempt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial agriculture; the pleasure of letting the chickens out of their coop in the morning; and the battle to save the Georgetown salamander. Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to, nature. These essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas womanhood: stubborn independence, fierce conviction, good humor, and instinctive generosity and kindness"-- Provided by publisher |
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Kohout, Heather Catto, 1959-2014 -- Philosophy
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Ecotheology.
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Environmental ethics.
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Human ecology -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Poetry
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Human ecology -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Philosophy
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Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs.
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Religion / Essays.
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Nature / Essays.
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Philosophy
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Human ecology -- Philosophy
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Human ecology
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Environmental ethics
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Ecotheology
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Texas -- Texas Hill Country
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Electronic books
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poetry.
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essays.
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Poetry
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Essays
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Poetry.
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Essays.
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Poésie.
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Essais.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kohout, Martin Donell
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| ISBN |
9781623499518 |
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1623499518 |
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