In Crazing I am writing about dementia, loss (and rediscovery) of the self, drought, and environmental collapse. “My body and the earth’s body are one,” as I say in a video introduction to my work. These two threads – my “crazing” skin and mind, and the similarly delaminating body of earth – interweave in this book. There is deep grief, elegy for what is leaving, but also joy as own mental cracks and the drought-stricken earth are transformed by “laughter’s fire.” “Who are you and what do you love?” is the question of the book, and the answer, despite loss of memory and the earth’s “seepage toward empty,” is “this, this, this, this …” I hope this book will connect with those who are dealing with dementia, those in grief about aging, those in despair over the future of our planet.