Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi Prologue xiii Connection The Testimony of the Marsh 3 Holdfast 7 Howling with Strangers 13 A Field Guide to Western Birds 19 The Thing About Dogs 27 Field Notes for an Aesthetic of Storms 31 The Western Singing Fish 41 Separation The Song of the Canyon Wren 49 The Prometheus Moth 53 Traveling the Logging Road, Coast Range 59 Cast Your Frog on the Water 67 Memory (The Boathouse) 73 Baking Bread with My Daughter 81 Pale Morning Dun (Ephemerella infrequens) 85 Connection On Being Afraid of Bears 93 Notes from the Pig-Barn Path 101 The Man with a Stump Where His Head Should Be 107 The Only Place Like This 111 Canoeing on the Line of a Song 117 Incoming Tide 121 Dead Reckoning 127 Afterword 137 ...