?Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root of things, the origin. It comes from the Latin radix, radicis,, meaning radish, a root vegetable."?BK LorenThese meditative essays range in subjects...
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?Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root of things, the origin. It comes from the Latin radix, radicis,, meaning radish, a root vegetable."?BK LorenThese meditative essays range in subjects from a transcendental encounter with a pack of coyotes ironically juxtaposed with her neighbor's claim that nature ?has gone out of vogue," to Loren's mother's slow yet all-encompassing deterioration from Parkinson's, and the unexpected way the Loma Prieta earthquake eroded her depression by offering the author a sense of her small place in a wild
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Author's note; Contents; Introduction; Animal; Trends of Nature; The Shifting Light of Shadows; Of Straw Dogs and Canines: A Meditation on Place; Mineral; Margie's Discount; Fighting Time; Snapshots of My Redneck Brother, and Other Undeveloped Negatives; The Evolution of Hunger; Back Words; Radical; Learning Fear; Got Tape?; This Little Piggy Stayed Home; Plate Tectonics and Other Underground Theories of Loss; Word Hoard; Gratitude; Reprint Acknowlegments; Notes;
