Deliberate life : a search for balance -- Picking blackberries : nature and technology -- In plain sight : vision and revision -- Fathers watching sons : windows and mirrors -- Saunter : reason and instinct -- The gay cardinal : love and instinct -- Cabin fever : alone and lonely -- In the time of the cicada : patience and passion -- Mushrooms : love and sex -- Lake glass : childhood and parenthood -- A box of wind : nature and religion -- Trimming trees : self-reliance and self-destruction -- Constructing truth : wood and word -- Falling apart : death and birth -- Coyotes at the mall : predators and prey -- The art of dying : art and activism -- Cougars in the corn : facts and truths -- A familial darkness : desperation and deliberation -- Travelling at night : seers and seekers -- Slow pilgrim : walking and praying.