Early winter. A wayfarer -- Gathering water -- The origin of horse -- The spigot of the quarter moon -- The origin of water -- Acts of disobedience -- Kansas -- Writing is a journey -- A continuance of travel -- A drive across the country -- The move -- Intrusions -- The trip to Kansas -- The trip back to California -- The bird house -- A book of roads -- Notes to the joint staff of chiefs -- The marching in the tops of the mulberry trees -- A caravan of days -- Civil war soldier and a grapefruit -- Totem -- It is the stones that survive -- Filming while driving -- The arrival of religion -- The dome of heaven -- Four quarters -- Why the rocks have ears -- Rough footage -- A moving point of reference -- Shoebox -- Hoelun -- #NoDAPL protest, North Dakota. Room on my dance card ; The beginning of indignation ; Even the stones speak ; Drone -- A view from the windshield of my car -- The language of weather -- Early winter.
Summary:
"From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. 'My sense of place is in the moving,' Glancy writes. For her the road is home--its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us to be willing to explore the incomprehensible parts of the landscapes we inhabit and pass through--as well as to, ultimately, let them blur as they go by. This, Glancy says, is home. Glancy teases out the lessons of the road that are never easy to define, grappling with her own: childhood's puzzle pieces of her Cherokee heritage and a fraught but still compelling vision of Christianity. As she clocks an inordinate amount of driving, as she experiments with literary forms, she looks to what the land has held for centuries, before the roads were ever there. This, ultimately, is a book about land, tradition, religion, questions and the puzzle pieces none of us can put together quite right. It's a book about peripheral vision, conflicting narratives, and a longing for travel" -- Provided by publisher.
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