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Boots on the Ground
3.5-minute read On a recent drive to the North Carolina coast, to spend time at the beach with my family, I stopped in Chapel Hill to visit a cousin and cousin-in-law, John and Cathy, whom I had not seen in nearly two decades. Later, on my way back to West Virginia, I stopped in Raleigh…
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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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Sheila McEntee 