Chronology -- Growing up in Iowa, 1939-1963 -- Official entry -- An emerging imagination -- Summers in paradise -- Looking the part -- King, a dog of the north -- Moving Gibraltar -- Nebraska apprenticeship, 1963-1969 -- The move to Nebraska -- Journey to a place of work -- Official entry blank -- Running on empty -- The shepherd's new song, 1970-1979 -- A local habitation & a name -- Singing the shepherd's song -- Not coming to be barked at -- "Walking home to you" -- American scripture, 1980-1994 -- Sure signs -- Common ground -- One world at a time -- Weather central -- "Feeling the speed," 1995 today -- "Lights on a ground of darkness" -- Winter morning walks -- Local wonders -- Delights & shadows -- "The ripening odor of praise" -- "Bright yellow leaves flying."