Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Introduction: Voices Woven of Wind and Sage | p. xv |
My Feet Set Down Roots: The Grounding | p. 1 |
My Heart Still Grins | p. 5 |
June and I, Singing | p. 6 |
Thinking of Rain in the Dry Season | p. 6 |
No Room for Strangers | p. 7 |
Dear Judy | p. 10 |
Letter to a "Friend" | p. 11 |
Goldie | p. 13 |
The Rapture | p. 14 |
Girls' Night Out | p. 14 |
Something of the Earth | p. 17 |
Sisters | p. 19 |
Love and Light | p. 20 |
Without a Doubt | p. 20 |
If... | p. 20 |
Pearls from the Milk | p. 21 |
Tea with Daphne | p. 23 |
Preserving | p. 24 |
Trinity | p. 26 |
Stella He | p. 28 |
Aunt Noi | p. 29 |
The Oddest Daughter | p. 30 |
Homemade Noodles | p. 33 |
The Path | p. 34 |
Secret Sin | p. 35 |
Ladies Aid | p. 37 |
Light | p. 38 |
Prairie Ocean | p. 41 |
That's What Neighbors Do | p. 42 |
Rosario | p. 43 |
Elvira | p. 44 |
Six Artists at a Country Retreat | p. 45 |
Beverly | p. 48 |
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star | p. 50 |
Summer Friends | p. 52 |
Learning How to Be Lonely | p. 53 |
Dormant Seeds Sprouting | p. 55 |
Of Potatoes and the Wind | p. 57 |
Pearls | p. 59 |
The Art of Living the Moment | p. 61 |
The Women | p. 63 |
Sigga | p. 64 |
Lupe's Song | p. 66 |
The Lady Who Knew How to Live | p. 67 |
Resolving Mrs. Wackerly | p. 70 |
Spun Sugar | p. 72 |
Capes | p. 73 |
Wyoming Mother | p. 75 |
Women in the Rain | p. 77 |
Belonging to the Black Crows | p. 79 |
Pink Iron Nails | p. 84 |
Ghost of April, 1978 | p. 86 |
Joan | p. 88 |
Some Things Never Change | p. 88 |
Marriage | p. 92 |
Up Fortification Creek | p. 93 |
Divas for a Day | p. 95 |
Dear Berry | p. 96 |
Friends for Life | p. 98 |
A Man's Work | p. 100 |
Leaves Speak for You: The Nourishing | p. 103 |
Chokecherries | p. 107 |
Coming Home | p. 107 |
Friends Because | p. 110 |
Letters to Lil | p. 111 |
Time for Friendship | p. 115 |
La-vin-i-a | p. 115 |
There Were No Women | p. 119 |
Because Men Rule | p. 122 |
The Reclamation | p. 123 |
Who Else? | p. 127 |
Gram's Vegetables | p. 127 |
At the Prairie, the Day Before | p. 129 |
Saying Good-bye to 'Nali | p. 131 |
Backbeat | p. 134 |
Strung on Sinew | p. 136 |
Handwork | p. 136 |
Whatever Works | p. 137 |
Lessons Learned by Hand | p. 140 |
Granma's Gloves | p. 143 |
Old Ladies Go Hunting | p. 143 |
Muskrat Ramble | p. 146 |
Spider Beside Her | p. 147 |
The Storm | p. 147 |
Passage | p. 152 |
End of the World | p. 153 |
Huddled for Warmth | p. 156 |
Mother Love | p. 156 |
The Woman, Listening on the Party Line | p. 158 |
Shifting Gears | p. 159 |
Co-Madres | p. 162 |
Barriers of Silence | p. 163 |
Majesty | p. 166 |
Hog Wars | p. 167 |
Don't Step in the Cactus | p. 169 |
The Night | p. 170 |
Trying to Remember She Is Now a Man | p. 170 |
Vi and Me | p. 171 |
Whistling Girls and Knitting | p. 173 |
Sybil Harris | p. 174 |
Barbed Wire and Robert Frost | p. 176 |
Knowing with the Heart | p. 177 |
Maybe Slower Is Better | p. 180 |
Leah, Bright and Dark | p. 181 |
The Heart Knows | p. 183 |
The Sunset Cafe | p. 184 |
At Forty-five | p. 186 |
Full Monty | p. 190 |
Living Without Loneliness | p. 191 |
A Woman's Place | p. 192 |
Sky, Grass, Rain, and Sage | p. 193 |
Daily Acts of Courage | p. 195 |
New Flowers Unfolding: The Promise | p. 197 |
Oyurushi: Forgiveness | p. 201 |
The Company of Women | p. 201 |
She Was Writing | p. 203 |
The Wedding Shower | p. 204 |
Linda | p. 206 |
The Legacy | p. 207 |
Resurrections | p. 209 |
The Gift | p. 210 |
Word | p. 211 |
Tapestry of Knots | p. 216 |
Pilgrimage | p. 217 |
What Makes Our Lives | p. 219 |
Tea for Two | p. 220 |
Sisterhood | p. 222 |
Dear Ann | p. 223 |
Common Ground | p. 226 |
Holy Ground | p. 228 |
The Concubine | p. 231 |
Anneen | p. 234 |
Wild roses | p. 239 |
My Mother's Moccasins | p. 239 |
Her Soul Lives Here | p. 243 |
Let the Circle Be Unbroken | p. 245 |
Melissa | p. 246 |
Reclaiming Mother's World | p. 248 |
Matrimony | p. 249 |
The Shell Game | p. 250 |
Cycles | p. 252 |
Alva in the Fields | p. 253 |
How I Became My Own Woman | p. 254 |
Defying Bare Branches | p. 256 |
Dear Quilting Sisters | p. 258 |
Jean | p. 259 |
Come Home | p. 263 |
Before She Left | p. 263 |
How the West Was Won | p. 265 |
Car Pool Friendship | p. 267 |
Circled in Shadows | p. 269 |
To Breathe on My Own | p. 270 |
Below Zero--December | p. 272 |
Cultivating the Iris, Dawn of Change | p. 273 |
The Waiting | p. 278 |
To Smooth a Mountain | p. 279 |
Barefooting Summer | p. 280 |
The Field Road | p. 281 |
Community of Stones | p. 289 |
My Old Aunts Play Canasta in a Snowstorm | p. 290 |
Contributors | p. 295 |
Acknowledgments | p. 311 |
Credits | p. 312 |
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.