HOLDFAST -- AT HOME IN THE NATURAL WORLD

by Kathleen Dean Moore
© 1999 by Kathleen Dean Moore

This book is dedicated to the Deans and the Moores, my family, by bedrock.

Table of Contents:

• Inside Cover
• Prologue
• Acknowledgments
• CONNECTION
  • The Testimony of the Marsh
  • Holdfast
  • Howling with Strangers
  • A Field Guide to Western Birds
  • The Thing About Dogs
  • Field Notes for an Aesthetic of Storms
  • The Western Singing Fish
• SEPARATION
  • The Song of the Canyon Wren
  • The Prometheus Moth
  • Traveling the Logging Road, Coast Range
  • Cast Your Frog on the Water
  • Memory (The Boathouse)
  • Baking Bread with My Daughter
  • Pale Morning Dun (Ephemerella infrequens)
• CONNECTION
  • On Being Afraid of Bears
  • Notes from the Pig-Barn Path
  • The Man with a Stump Where His Head Should Be
  • The Only Place Like This
  • Canoeing on the Line of a Song
  • Incoming Tide
  • Dead Reckoning