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Shimmering Is All There Is

Heather Catto Kohout
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  • ISBN 9781623499501
  • Weight: 333g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 259mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About Heather Catto Kohout
A native of San Antonio, Heather Catto Kohout (1959-2014) was a dedicated rower, a published poet, a freelance theology teacher, and the mother of three children. She cofounded Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art, and the Environment in Medina, Texas.

Martin Donell Kohout is the author of Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook, cofounder of Madroño Ranch, and president of the Madroño Foundation. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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