I: Attachment and loss. The fountain ; A motherless child ; Golden light ; My father's shirt
II: Becoming. Light filtered through water ; A best friend ; Animal companions ; The library ; House calls ; Storytelling ; Girl Scout cookies
III: In another light. Shelling peas ; The coffin and the chenille bedspread ; Harbor lights ; Prairie dog villages ; Ozark summers ; Shafts of light ; Heart light
IV: Identity. The burning tree ; Summer solstice ; The light from ideas ; The A&W on Highway 81 ; San Francisco
V: Leaving home. The fiery furnace ; Campfire lights ; Dock of the bay ; Pregnancy and exile ; Sunrise ; Fireplace light ; My father's death
VI: Settling down. The Fourth of July ; Butterscotch light ; Daughter light ; My mother's death ; Writing ; Fame ; Okinawa ; Teardrops in the snow ; Equatorial light ; Chinook salmon ; The Fabtones' last night at the Zoo Bar ; Snowfields ; January ice
VII: Reslience. Helicopter lights ; Buddha light ; Morel hunting ; Sunset ; The Perseids ; Strawberry moon ; Prairie grasses ; Musical light ; Rescue
VIII: Wisdom light. Will they remember? ; Winter moon ; Wisdom light ; My son's kitchen ; The cranebow ; The light we can always find.