Introduction: Books, note cards, memos, shreds and shards -- Forgetfulness -- How does your garden grow? -- Mixed up in my head -- My staff -- It's about time -- No need for regret -- Farther along -- A little bird told me -- Bird song -- Counting the days -- Sauntering -- Dangerous crossings -- Deformed -- Dressed for success -- Is this all the thanks I get? -- Mine eyes have seen the glory -- The grander curves of character -- Going and not knowing -- From the ground up -- The hand on the helve -- What I make of it -- Handicapped -- Paying attention -- Habitual tenderness -- Weariness -- Stuff -- A river runs through us -- The sound of silence -- The good, the better, the best -- Fresh starts -- Rats! -- Things I do not know -- The hill difficulty -- A ruin! a ruin! a ruin! -- The discipline of distress -- Nothing to lose -- Seize the day! -- Sing a song -- A painful grace -- Pressing on -- Rejected -- The yoke -- Learning to listen -- The world's last night -- On yaks -- Fool's gold -- Things I can't do any longer -- The work of our hands -- Readiness -- Autumn colors -- Nothing left to prove -- The highways to Zion -- Ageless delight -- Sour grapes -- The art of correction -- His story -- Asleep in Jesus -- What good am I? -- Bookworm -- The little birds of God -- Loneliness -- Retirement -- Scared of dying -- There is rest.