Author: Sheila
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A Lift Off…A Letting Go
In my last post, about the recent emergence of Magicicada Brood XIV, I suggested that at any moment, we, too, can shed our outgrown “exoskeletons,” flex new wings, and take flight into the next chapter of our lives. For me, this evolution often involves letting go of “things.”
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Emergence
(Three-minute read) As I write this post, I hear a sound outside that defies words. Not a buzz. Not a hum, or even a thrum. I might liken it to the non-stop cheering of a faraway crowd. Indeed, there is a fervor, a fever, to it. Though I don’t know how to describe the sound,…
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Nature Reveals Our Deepest Selves
Friends, today, May 15, is a long-awaited day. My first book, Soul Friend and Other Love Notes to the Natural World is being released by Blackwater Press!! I am more than thrilled and so grateful to all those who helped me launch my book into the world.
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A Child in the Woods
Indeed, I, the bird nerd grandma, had been biding my time, wondering when I might begin teaching Myles about nature. Now I could charge full-speed ahead. Myles had binoculars and he liked them!
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For the Birds: An Earth Day Message
It’s a question often posed to those with an avian obsession: What was your spark bird? That is, what bird first captured your heart and inspired you to become a birder—a highly distractable individual who interrupts conversations if a shape in the sky enters their peripheral vision, and who gazes for long moments into trees…
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Sheila McEntee 