This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments
an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in
the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown
from the Earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards.'On my desk sits a beautiful engraving, published in another century, that
promises me: "Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty."
Promises and prayers contain their own kinds of answer, as consecrated
aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection, written in the
aftermath of September 11th, the author of High Tide In Tucson and The
Poisonwood Bible brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an
extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned
from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves
on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects ranging from an
inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of
chickens tended by the author's small daughter
