Weaving a Way Home : The University of Michigan Press : 9780472116423 : 0472116428 : 05 Mar 2008 : An inquiry into how we engage with the world, and how solutions to environmental challenges can be found in the heart of our emotional relationships with places "No one with a working heart will fail to be moved by Van Gelder. With passion and intelligence, she explores the way we story places and places story all life." ---Patrick Curry, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, and author of Ecological Ethics: An Introduction and Defending Middle-Earth "With grace and passion Leslie Van Gelder weaves together stories of her own encounters with an amazing variety of places---riverside meadows of Oxford, racially sundered Cyprus, fly-tormented Canadian muskeg, caves stroked by Paleolithic fingertips, derelict Coney Island, grasslands through which lion cubs follow the black tip of their mother's tail---to show us how Place and Story are the warp and weft of our being as earth-d