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Senior Specialist, Keogh is also the author of As Much Time as It Takes: A Guide for the Bereaved, Their Family and Friends. For his three-decade contribution to the development of the dance form Contact Improvisation, he has been listed in Who’s Who in the World. He has facilitated groups and teacher’s conferences in twenty-seven countries on five continents. His approach to writing and teaching are the same—allowing the body to provide the imagery that viscerally communicates what the body knows. His essays have been translated into eight languages.

For more information, visit his Web site at www.martinkeogh.com.

Permissions and Copyrights

“The Peace of Wild Things” was first published in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, 1999), and is reprinted here by permission of the publisher.

“The Original Human Vocation” was adapted from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins, 2007), and is reprinted here by permission of the publisher.

“To Build a Better Future, Start with a Better Question” is copyright © 2010 by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen, and is printed here by permission of the authors.

“To Do the Will of God, Come What May” is copyright © 2009 by Alice Walker.

“Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan was first published as a New York Times editorial, and is reprinted here by special permission of International Creative Management, Inc.

“Eden Is a Conversation” first appeared in the Autumn 2006 issue of Portland magazine. Copyright © 2006 by Barry Holstun Lopez. Used with the author’s permission.

“The Optimism of Uncertainty,” by Howard Zinn, was first published in A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights, 2006), and is reprinted here by permission of the publisher.

“Sabbaths: VI,” by Wendell Berry, was first published in Leavings: Poems (Counterpoint, 2009), and is reprinted here by permission of the publisher.