Author’s Note
1. We Who Walk the Seven Ways
2. Marie
3. Ann
4. Irene
5. Mary Lou
6. Back in Those Days
7. Returning the Gift
8. The Seven Ways
9. The Way of This Daughter
10. Undocumented
11. Growing Up
12. Luke
13. Gary
14. Leaping into Womanhood
15. The Way of This Mother
16. Luke and New Mexico on My Mind
17. After the First Silent Week
18. Just Writing
19. Winter of Hope
20. The Red Ribbon Bridge
21. The Winter the Stars Fell
22. Words Facing West
23. My Years at the Shelter
24. The Winter It Came Back
25. With Nothing Ahead but Sky
26. Somewhere Southwest of the Middle
27. Coming Back to the World
28. Pushing Up the Sky
29. Growing Old in a Beautiful Way
30. Water Chores and Rituals
31. The Landscape Will Teach You Who You Are
32. Safekeeping
33. Reading, Living, and My Books
34. The Winter My Grandfather Apologized
35. River in the Blood
36. Back in Those Days in Oklahoma
37. My Mother
38. Ann, Wilma, Joy, and Me
39. My Relationship with Honesty
40. Searching for a Place to Stand
41. On the Way Home
42. The Indigenous Way of Comprehending
43. On the Medicine Trail
44. Tangled Thoughts
45. Winter Count
46. Forty-Five Winters
47. Dancing to Remember
48. Tomol Evening
49. Returning the Gift to the Sea
50. Gratitude
51. November
52. The Harvest Dinner
53. Winter of Distance
Acknowledgments