Daughter's précis / by Rachel E. Harding -- (The light) -- Ground -- Rye's rites (poem) -- Grandma rye -- There was a tree in Starkville -- Daddy's mark -- Joe Daniels: getting unruly -- The side of the road -- Papa's girl -- North -- Snow and spring in Woodlawn -- Shirley Darden -- Brother Bud's death -- Death, dreams, and secrecy: things we carried -- Seasons -- Elegant cousins and original beauty -- Warmth -- Altgeld gardens -- Hot rolls (short fiction) -- Looking for work -- The nursing test -- In loco parentis (short fiction) -- Mama Freeney and the Haints -- Height -- South -- Hospitality, haints, and healing: African American indigenous -- Religion and activism -- Mennonite house in Atlanta -- The next-door neighbor -- Traveling for the movement -- Koinonia farm: cultivating conviction -- A radical compassion: his holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan and Marion King-Jackson -- A song in the time of dying: a memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon -- The blood house (a story outline) -- Spirit and struggle: the mysticism of the movement -- The Dharamsala notebook -- Sunrise after Delhi (poem) -- The Dharamsala notebook I -- The Dharamsala notebook II -- Bunting -- The bunting -- The workshops and retreats: ritual, remembering, and medicine -- The Pachamama circle -- Pachamama circle I: Rachel's dream -- Pachamama circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets -- Pachamama circle III: a choreography of mothering -- Mama and the gods -- Fugida: poem for Oyá -- Class visits: love, white southerners, and black exceptionalism -- A little wind -- (The call) -- Rosemarie's genealogies. |