Amy Lou Jenkins, author of EVERY NATURAL FACT: FIVE SEASONS OF OPEN-AIR PARENTING, explores the dichotomy of modern life and a desire to live lightly on the land.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Find your story and write a memoir
Nature writing is often also first-person writing. Is your memoir also nature writing? Maybe/maybe not. Find your story with a free guided workbook. FirstPersonWriting.com @amyloujenkins
Friday, February 3, 2023
Braiding Sweetgrass Video and link to Book Review
Wisdom, gathered for you.
“I am the woman with the basket” Kimmerer declares after an immersive walk into the woods searching for leeks, “and how I fill it is the question that matters. If we are fully awake, a moral question arises as we extinguish the other lives around us on behalf of our own”(p.179). In this essay, ‘The Honorable Harvest’, the elders, the Earth, cultures, hunters, animals, and plants pass their wisdom through a judicious and compassionate writer to woo the reader to become a better version of themselves.
Read full review at https://amyloujenkins.com/braiding-sweetgrass-book-review/
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Find your story and write a memoir
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