Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way Book

	Acknowledgments
	Beginnings	1
	Querencia	4
	Poetry Inside Us All	7
	Where Does Writing Hide?	10
	An Angel on My Shoulder	13
	Feng Shui	16
	Doing What I Have To	19
	Time-Worlds	21
	Keeping the Channel Open	24
	A Conversation with Myself	27
	I'm Not in the Military	31
	The Rumble Beneath My Feet	33
	The Education of the Eye: Staring	35
	Don't Try to Avoid the Rocks	38
	Let Writing Lead the Way	40
	The Intent, Not the Recipe	42
	Digging Beneath the Surface	44
	Incarnadine Seas	47
	Everything, Including the Kitchen Sink	50
	I Could Not Tell	52
	Writing Is Like Making Tortillas	54
	Picking Up a Stone	56
	Digging in the Earth	58
	Fall in Love at Least Three Times a Day	60
	From an Onion to My Grandmother	62
	The Fire Within: Writing from Anger	64
	Ten Observations a Day	67
	Layers	69
	First Memory	71
	Rivers of Memory	73
	The Full Picture	75
	Visual Archaeology	77
	Layers of History	80
	Gannon Hill	84
	Stones and Sorrows	86
	Listening to the Corn	88
	In That Time	90
	The Family in the Next Booth	93
	Back from the Mountains, a Yellow Handrail	95
	Whispering into the Air	97
	Ancestors	100
	Synchronicity: Connecting the World	102
	Dreams	105
	Songs to the Everyday	107
	Found Writing	110
	Prayers: Words with Winged Feet	112
	Walk	114
	Lessons from Art	118
	Blind Contour Drawing: Revision	121
	Tapping into Words	123
	Punctuation as Spice	125
	Why Have You Chosen It?	128
	Finding a True Reader	131
	Fallow Fields	133
	Try Woodworking	135
	What to Leave, What to Take with You	137
	Endings	139
	Bibliography	141