The Shimmering Is All There Is On Nature, God, Science, and More / Heather Catto Kohout ; edited by Martin Donell Kohout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohout, Heather Catto, 1959-2014, author.

Contributor:

Jones, Nancy Baker, writer of foreword.

Kohout, Martin Donell, 1959- editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation

Women in Texas history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kohout, Heather Catto, 1959-2014--Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human ecology.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Environmental ethics.

Ecotheology.

Human ecology--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Poetry.

Human ecology--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Philosophy.

Texas--Texas Hill Country.

Texas.

Genre:

Poetry.

Essays.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2021]

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.

Contents:

Poems: Invocation

Prophet

Compunction

What She Knew

Sacrifice

Proof

Within

With

Ordination

Ordination: Piedras Negras

Beside

Beneath.

A Field That Don't Yield: Writer's Block and the Language of Community

Lenten Reflections: Dead Trees, Bafflement, and Submission

Tragic Waste: Some Thoughts on the S-Word

Dorothea Brooke, Betty Friedan, and Big Ag

The Power of Poetry: Peace, Demons, Sonnets, and Resurrection

Learning to Listen, and Love

Gratuitous Beauty

Signs of the Times: Billboards, Property Rights, and the Enlightenment

Field Notes from Madron̳o Ranch: Bison and Birds

Silos: My Beef with Freeman Dyson

Food Science: Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, and the Old Testament

Children of Dawn: Sin in the Twenty-First Century

A Furry Flurry of Fully Furrowed Brows: My Beef with Freeman Dyson, Part II

Re-Wilding the Monocultural Self

Edsels and the Enlightenment: The Downside of Corporate Personhood

Field Notes from Inside My Head: Connecting Art and Commerce

Angels in the Dark

A Father's Legacy

Submission Guidelines

Take Me to the River

Bonfires in the Soul

Spring Creed

Microbiomes and Individual Identity: Alexander Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury

Jellyfish and Revelation

The Cliff of the Unknown: Desire, Tolerance, and Identity

Poetry and the Pelvic Bowl

A Tale of Two Kitties: Thinking About Predators and Cancer

This and Not That

The Unsteady Rock: Descartes, Salamanders, and the Nicene Creed

Mind the Gap: Ghosts, Trees, and Goodbye to a River

Repairing the World: Beatles, Alaskan Mountain Goats, and Asiatic Cheetahs

Foreword / Nancy Baker Jones

Introduction / Martin Donell Kohout

Essays / Heather Catto Kohout: The Wonder and Power of Water

Dreaming Time

A Mother's Legacy

Growing Hope

"Everywhere There's Lots of Piggies ..."

Carnivorocity

James Cameron, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Nature of Nature

Massachusetts, Part I: Of Books and Houses and Hospitality

Massachusetts, Part II: Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Mapping the Geography of Hope: Our Place in the Wilderness

Sorry, Dad: Wilderness and Government Regulation

Purity, Ambiguity, and the Investment Portfolio

The Devil's Bargain: On Gardening and Violence

Still More on Violence: There Will Be Blood

Home with the Armadillo: A Love Letter to Texas

The Gift Economy

Made for You and Me: Some Thoughts on Private Property

Double Vision: Prophets, Tribalism, Eugenics, and the Environment

Cleaning Out the Mental Refrigerator: Niebuhr, McKibben, and Band-Aids

"A Cup of Tea, a Warm Bath, and a Brisk Walk"

Stubbing the Giant's Toe: Thoughts on Midwestern Agribusiness

Hall of Mirrors: The Lost Art of Conversation

Of Mothers and Mountains

Barbers, Bison Meat, and the Invisible Hand

"Sit. Stay. Stay! I Said STAY, Dammit!"

Faith, Bureaucracy, and Sheep: Thoughts on Changing One's Mind

Hosts, Guests, and Strangers: Thoughts on Hospitality

Singing in the Dark

The Rising Light

Shooting Holes in the Constitution: Some Thoughts on Guns and Violence

Meat and Flourishment: Carnivorocity, Take Two

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781623499518

1623499518

OCLC:

1263865590