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With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ's cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer-she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father's life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer's task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. INTERSECTIONS of TIME and PLACE
1. Looking for Direction
2. Forest and Prairie
3. At the Corner of Past and Future
4. Standing in Lines
5. Comforter
6. Salvador DalÍ and Me
Part 2: INTERSECTIONS of MEMORY and TRUTH
7. My Earliest Memory
8. Memory Thefts and Transplants
9. In Pursuit of Magic
10. Dr. Silverman and the Kansas City A's
11. My Mother, the Liar
12. Vaccines
13. Shards
14. Sky
Part 3: INTERSECTIONS of LIFE and ART
15. Carnal Appetites
16. Cathedrals and Cottonwoods
17. Egg Carton Art
18. God Is Not a tv Repairman
19. Because the Poet Died
20. Privilege
21. I Say Unicorns Are Real
22. Souls at White Heat
23. Fatigue
24. A Flying Leap
25. What Is the Meaning of This?
Acknowledgments
Notes
