Any living thing can teach us, if we only look, attend, and connect.

We can find our own way to fly: Nature inspires profound, navigational wisdom.

We have ancient wisdom. We can learn from organisms and systems that pre-date us by millennia.

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” –Terry Tempest Williams

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” –Terry Tempest Williams

Every now and then, a book opens a portal to our primal connection to Earth, something we need more of in this time of rapidly destabilizing planetary systems.

Be More Bird, Life Lessons From a Hawk, by Candida Meyrick, is such a portal. Candida is a falconer, novelist, mother, and cancer survivor, whose experiences with her Harris Hawk provide a window into the numinous, extraordinary potentials of connecting with, and creating with, the more-than-human world.

Rachel Clark: Could you briefly describe what beckoned you to write Be More Bird?

Candida Meyrick: The answer to this has a long root! I’ve always written and always painted. My mother is a writer, my father was a painter, and I have long tussled........

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