Impressions:
- Birth
- Childhood
- The cruelty of life interrupting the innocence of childhood
- Three brothers and their family
- Idyllic 1950s Waco, Texas
- The sacred and emotional
- Amplified by the death of the middle brother
- A young boy emerging in the world
- Coming to grips with the cruelty of the world
- Choosing how to respond to life
- The Way of Nature, his father, or The Way Of Grace, his mother.

