The Shimmering Is All There Is - On Nature, God, Science, and More (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Heather Catto Kohout
Editors:	Martin Donell Kohout
Foreword by:	Nancy Baker Jones
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-62349-950-1
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LSN:	1-62349-950-X
Barcode:	9781623499501

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