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A Move to Substack
Hello, Faithful Readers, and Happy New Year! Close to a year ago, I debuted my author website and began writing a blog about happenings in my life. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure where my writing would go. Yet, as the weeks passed, I found inspiration for essays everywhere I looked, and even when I…
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Encouraging Awareness and Inclusivity
Five-minute read My three-year-old grandson, Myles, is a voracious reader. He doesn’t read words yet, but when I hand him a new book, he pores over it, turning the pages slowly, studying the pictures. Then, he asks me to read it to him. If he likes the book, he asks to hear it again. And…
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Woodland Intimacy
Four-minute read I return to Kanawha State Forest, this time amid bright autumn light. Beneath a blue, sunlit sky, the sturdy bones of sycamores gleam, and the golden, leafy boughs of beeches glow. Seven hikers, in warm hats and gloves, ply a shady trail. Our leader, Chris Gatens, knows the forest like he knows the…
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On Darkness and Chains
At dusk, we gather at the trailhead, deep in Kanawha State Forest. We wear headlamps. Carry flashlights and walking sticks. As daylight slips away, our leader calls us together. We count off—14 hikers in all. “Let’s go!” she finally says. And we are off, boots crunching on the rocky path.
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Murmuration
“A swooping, soaring, diving, winding, everchanging, synchronous aerial dance of thousands— sometimes even hundreds of thousands—of birds, that fills the sky for long moments, like a flittering fireworks finale.”
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Sheila McEntee 