Inside the Flame

Table Of Contents

Introduction



Part One: How We Touch the World



Grasp: The Right Fit

Moving: Higher, Faster, Farther

Extreme Play

Collecting

Petting Cats

Oral Fixations



Oral Mysteries



Extreme Flavors



Flavor Collisions

Exploring

Color Wheel: the Magenta Jacket
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Acts of Renewal: Meditations of the Hand



Folding Clothes



Ironing Meditation



Transformative Dusting



Putting on Makeup

Shape Shifting: Baking Bread



Personal Shape Shifting

Space Programs



Expanding the body: Favorite Clothing



Decorating Space

Space Shifting

Dining by Candlelight

Rites of Memory

Seasonal Flavors

Making Mud Pies

Lost or Found

Hero Mom



Part 2: How the World Touches Us

The Seasons

Climbing Amboy Crater

The Gravity of Dawn

Sonic Transport

Kissing

Eye Candy

Swimming in the Rain

Management Issues

Sensory Joy

Textures

Aromas



Crushing Bay Leaves



The bicyclist and the French Lavender



Russian Leather: my mother’s perfume

Impressions

Discomfort Zones

Freestyle Craftiness

Visual Intimacy: Mirrors

Touched Back



Toxic Snow



Innocent Leg and Jumping Cholla



Attack of the yellow jackets

Handwriting

Walking



Pogonip



Island in the Sky

Fridays on Westcliff

Loss: Ceremonies of Death

Loss Transformed

Magnify This



Part 3: Inside the Flame

A Well-Made Home

Ordinary Objects

Music Recaptured

Something from Nothing

Telescopes

Defining Moments

Too-Near and No-Where



The Space of Mid-Air



Too-close Encounters



The Overwhelmingly Generic



The New and Unknown

Going to Extremes

Defining Moments: Diving through the Waves

Watching Movies, Extending Space

Defining Moments: Flying with my Father

Painting the Rock

Uncurated Keepsakes

Connective Tissues

Defining Moments: Grand Canyon Sunset

Defining Moments: The Rain Forest

Defining Moments: Tree Falling on Car

Sensory Webs

Defining Moments: Brahms in London

All Roads Lead to Home