A secular testament,

its 14 chapters explore earthly existence from surprising perspectives:

• the extreme variegation of a single worldly artifact, the window;

• the problematical relationship between humans and other species;

• ditto public and private property;

• the globe as a sphere with countries pink and green;

• the body’s adaptation to the physical world through proprioception;

• the humanistic value of art and the challenge of weather-ethics;

• life on 7.34 acres of the Blue Ridge with its abundant stimulation–animal, vegetable, mineral, meteorological, celestial, and familial;

• the notion of the supernatural as dramatically hashed over with an otherworldly being.