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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.
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