Things Like the Truth by Gilchrist, Ellen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Section One—Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas: My Southern Home

Things like the Truth The Family Hurricane, 2005, August 26: Testimony of Grandmother Ellen Testimony of Grandmother Ellen December 29, 2009, Ocean Springs, Mississippi Ode to New Orleans Casting a Cold Eye January 1, 2010 December 29, 2009, Ocean Springs, Mississippi: The Mystery of Psychotherapy; The Mystery of Transference; The Hardwired Banks of the River Memory While Talking to Gunther Perdigao on January 3, 2010 February 13, 2010

Section Two—Mother, Father, Ancestors: The People Who Made Me

Wyoming, 1976 My Momma and Daddy Get Married in the Cathedral, Or, Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us Further In and Deeper Out (Wyoming) Writing Maketh an Exact Man A Store of Treasures Living in the Shadow of a Beautiful Mother A Memory, The Drive-In Theatre Summer, A Memory

Section Three—A Home in the Highland

Keeping Houses How I Learned to Love and Trust Women, Since, After All, I Am One Fall 2004, The Origin of Ball Games Diamonds, 2006 My Paris and My Rome, Part I My Paris and My Rome, Part II Living with Light My Paris and My Rome, Part III February 2007, Homage to William Shawn

Section Four—The Courts of Love

An Anniversary In Praise of the Young Man Being Wooed Writing Maketh an Exact Man, Part II Meditations on Divorce The Wine Dark Sea Blessings When I Worry I Run As Fast As I Can Pollen, Part I Pollen, Part II The Joy of Swimming Behaviorists, Freudians, Jungians, and Zen: A Short History of a Learning Curve How to Have a Seventy-Fifth Birthday Party That Is a Surefire Success Heaven, A Mystical Experience in Late October in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Or, Why We Need to Write and Read Books Until We Die, Which I No Longer Fear or Dream of Understanding

Section Five—Blessings

Christmas Past Morality, Part I Proving Once Again I Will Do Anything for My Granddaughters On Becoming an Ancestor Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, What Next?

Postscript: More Miracles, April 22, 2015