{"product_id":"the-shimmering-is-all-there-heather-catto-kohout-9781623499501","title":"The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament--as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; and the founder of a residency program for environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country--permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic sensibility, and an ability to laugh--gently--at her fellow creatures and, especially, herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Kohout's essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an attempt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial agriculture; the pleasure of letting the chickens out of their coop in the morning; and the battle to save the Georgetown salamander. Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to, nature. These essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas womanhood: stubborn independence, fierce conviction, good humor, and instinctive generosity and kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Catto Kohout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162349950X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623499501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Heather Catto Kohout","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076511166719,"sku":"9781623499501","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e02f3557-8806-475c-bc28-8e800a2c2001.jpg?v=1685465396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shimmering-is-all-there-heather-catto-kohout-9781623499501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}