Contents
“Butterfly”: by Stephanie Finell
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The Thunderbolt
Chapter Two: In Limbo
Chapter Three: Chrysalis
Chapter Four: Moments of Light
Chapter Five: The Devil’s Choice
Chapter Six: The Awakening
Chapter Seven: Slowly, Too Slowly
Chapter Eight: Fissures
Chapter Nine: The Teacher
Chapter Ten: Patterns and Repetition
Chapter Eleven: The Goldfish Bowl
Chapter Twelve: Miracles and Roses
Chapter Thirteen: Pressures, Explosions
Chapter Fourteen: Sweet Sixteen
Chapter Fifteen: Shadow Play
Chapter Sixteen: Prisons
Chapter Seventeen: No More Songs
Chapter Eighteen: Of Lion Trees and Elephants
Chapter Nineteen: The Heartbeat of the Earth
Chapter Twenty: Back in the Land of Fear
Chapter Twenty-One: The Black Knight
Chapter Twenty-Two: New Beginnings
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Golden City
Chapter Twenty-Four: Special Olympics
Chapter Twenty-Five: Two Weddings, Three Funerals
Chapter Twenty-Six: Changes
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Navajo Land
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Falling in Love Again
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Spirit Visit
Chapter Thirty: Rainbows and Moonbows
Chapter Thirty-One: Things a Mother Should Never Know
Postscriptum