By Diane Ackerman — 2015
The best thing about a book tour is meeting your imagined readers, staring into their lamplit faces, hearing a little about their lives and, for a slender moment anyway, feeling the reciprocity of your trade.
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“If you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them,” Ellen Meloy wrote in her timeless meditation on water as a portal to transcendence, “you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged.”
The first thing you want is to know that you belong here, that you are a part of this planet, just like the earth and the water, the sun and the wind, and the trees.
What might have been a chilly and confusing morning drive to school for father and children has instead been an opportunity to weave an astonishingly intimate fabric of heart and imagination.