Illustrated catalog of wonders -- Foreword -- Small wonder -- Saying grace -- Knowing our place -- Patience of a saint -- Seeing scarlet -- Setting free the crabs -- Forest's last stand -- Called out -- Fist in the eye of God -- Lily's chickens -- One-eyed monster and why I don't let him in -- Letter to a daughter at thirteen -- Letter to my mother -- Going to Japan -- Life is precious, or it's not -- Flying -- Household words -- What good is a story? -- Marking a passage -- Taming the beast with two backs -- Stealing apples -- And our flag was still there -- God's wife's measuring spoons -- Acknowledgments.