Preface ix
The Beautiful Places
1(12)
Weather Report: January 17
13(1)
Deserts
14(11)
Weather Report: February 10
25(1)
Dakota: Or, Gambling, Garbage, and the New Ghost Dance
26(13)
Patagonia
39(3)
A Starfish in Mott
42(2)
Weather Report: March 25
44(1)
Gatsby on the Plains
45(20)
Weather Report: April 14
65(1)
Closed In
66(3)
The Holy Use of Gossip
69(9)
Weather Report: May 19
78(1)
Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?
79(10)
Weather Report: June 30
89(1)
Ghosts: A History
90(12)
Evidence of Failure
102(2)
Shadows 'n' Owls: A Message from Jim Sullivan
104(1)
Cana
105(2)
Where I Am
107(17)
Star-Time
124(2)
Frontier
126(9)
How I Came to Drink My Grandmother's Piano
135(1)
Status: Or, Should Farmers Read Plato?
136(6)
Weather Report: July 3
142(1)
Rain
143(2)
Sea Change
145(9)
God Is in the Details: Shortgrass
154(1)
Seeing
155(4)
Weather Report: August 9
159(1)
Getting to Hope
160(17)
In the Open
177(3)
Blessing
180(2)
Weather Report: September 3
182(1)
My Monasticism
183(5)
God Is in the Details: Winter Wheat
188(1)
Weather Report: October 2
189(2)
Is It You, Again?
191(13)
Weather Report: November 2
204(1)
Dust
205(2)
Monks at Play
207(11)
Blue
218(1)
Weather Report: December 4
219(1)
Weather Report: December 7
220(1)
Acknowledgments 221(2)
Notes 223(4)
Reader's Guide 227(4)
A Conversation with Kathleen Norris 231