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Chapters (103)
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Upon Seeking Tu Fu as a Guide
  5. To My Reader
  6. Enduring Suffering
  7. God, Self, and Medicine
  8. Willfulness
  9. In Voices Half as Loud
  10. Tu Fu’s Reappearance
  11. Without Notice
  12. The Waiting Room
  13. Endgame
  14. Questions to Walk With
  15. A Terrible Knowledge
  16. October Storm
  17. Post-Op
  18. Setting Fires in the Rain
  19. The Decision for Therapy
  20. Questions to Walk With
  21. Ocean of Sky
  22. For My Brother
  23. Covenant with Time
  24. As Rachel Wakes
  25. Dance of the Seed
  26. A Sacred Meditation
  27. Questions to Walk With
  28. Messenger Signs
  29. Where We Are Strong
  30. As If to Say
  31. Finding a Way Out
  32. Questions to Walk With
  33. Approaching Wholeness
  34. Troubled Waters
  35. Knowing God
  36. The Garage
  37. Living with the Wound
  38. Questions to Walk With
  39. Mind Sweats
  40. First Treatment
  41. Cradlesong
  42. Lifesong with Two Trumpets
  43. Letter Home
  44. Who Will Live Your Life?
  45. Questions to Walk With
  46. Midway in Our Journey
  47. Magnificence
  48. Another Chance
  49. Nesting
  50. I Have Not Forgotten
  51. On My Way
  52. Questions to Walk With
  53. Facing the River
  54. Being Human
  55. As Moonlight
  56. In the Back of the Eye
  57. In the Sea of Others
  58. Moonglow
  59. Chores
  60. Questions to Walk With
  61. Still Here, Still Wondering
  62. Unraveling the Self
  63. Cracked or Healing
  64. For Nur
  65. Love-Sufferings
  66. Soft as Satisfaction
  67. Letting Go
  68. Inside the Miracle
  69. Questions to Walk With
  70. Sifting Truth
  71. Susan Means Lily
  72. Sitting Near a Smoke Bush
  73. Sniffing For You
  74. Forged
  75. It
  76. Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
  77. For That
  78. Questions to Walk With
  79. Flint Work
  80. Entering Our Tenth Year
  81. Coming of Age
  82. After Mira
  83. Still
  84. What Can I Do?
  85. Love Your Window
  86. Hourglass
  87. Questions to Walk With
  88. The Bridge of Well-Being
  89. Adrift
  90. The Beauty of Less
  91. Between the Wall and the Flame
  92. Eventually
  93. Thrown Back
  94. The Slow Arm of All That Matters
  95. The Thin Magic
  96. In the Sky of Heart
  97. The Sway of It All
  98. Gratitudes
  99. Notes
  100. Permissions
  101. About the Author
  102. Also by the Author
  103. About Sounds True

I only know that everything has helped, and I am not great enough or wise enough to break down into percentages how much vitamin, how much medicine, how much prayer, how much God, how much Jesus, and how much mental fight. I only know that those who suffer partial belief are only partially healed.

Questions to Walk With

QUESTIONS TO WALK WITH

•  In your journal, tell the story of a time you lost trust in life and how you restored that basic covenant. This is important to understand as the losing and regaining of our trust in life will continue to happen, as part of the cycle of life.

•  In conversation with a friend or loved one, describe a time you learned more about yourself by delving more deeply into others. Then describe a time you learned more about others by delving more deeply into yourself.

•  In your journal, tell the story of a crack that turned into an opening. What cracked? What opened? What did you lose? What did you gain?

•  In conversation with a friend or loved one, speak about a time of emergency and how that concentrated your awareness and describe your shift of awareness once the emergency passed. How do you stay awake now without emergency prodding you?

•  In conversation with a friend or loved one, describe the most sincere person you know and what you admire about them. Discuss what keeps you from being more sincere.

•  In your journal, explore what you need to give up or put down in order to take the next step in your journey of healing.

Sifting Truth

SIFTING TRUTH

I remember being nine or ten at a lake in the Adirondacks where a distant friend of my father’s had come to visit. I’d never seen him before, and I have since learned he was a fugitive of sorts. I remember watching him on the early morning dock staring into the lapping water, staring more deeply than anyone I’d ever seen. He didn’t know I was watching, but when my foot snapped a twig, he came back immediately and I could tell he was used to coming up when others were around. I wanted to know what he saw and, with hesitation, I asked. He looked at me and chuckled. I stood quietly still. I knew he had seen something special in the water. He got up, patted me on the head, and muttered, “You’ll have to see for yourself.”