by Meredith Walters | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog, Nature Connection
Listen to me read this post Master naturalist and expert tracker Jon Young can locate a wild animal in two ways—by observing the physical clues they leave behind, or by using intuition alone. He demonstrates the latter, which he calls spirit tracking, alongside Anna...
by Meredith Walters | Oct 28, 2023 | Blog, Nature Connection
Listen to me read this post I didn’t always realize how much I needed nature. I always loved going out into it, but for a long time I didn’t recognize it as a daily need like food or water, or perceive that there was no need to go anywhere to find it. The only outdoor...
by Meredith Walters | Sep 29, 2023 | Blog, Nature Connection
Listen to me read this post In July my husband and I went camping on Cumberland Island, a barrier island and National Seashore in South Georgia. Unlike the other barrier islands, Cumberland is mostly undeveloped, and the only way to get there is via ferry (there are...
by Meredith Walters | Aug 29, 2023 | Blog, Nature Connection
Listen to me read this post Earlier this summer I was on our back deck when I heard a strange sound—a hoarse, plaintive, high-pitched whistling noise I’d never heard before. Click here to hear what I heard. It was dark, so I couldn’t investigate what kind of animal...
by Meredith Walters | Jul 31, 2023 | Blog, Nature Connection
Welcome to the first installment of A Wild Hunch: Ideas for Reclaiming Our Natural, Intuitive Wisdom in the Natural World! Listen to me read this post Recently I co-led an Intuitive Nature Walk with a master naturalist friend of mine. As I was planning my...
by Meredith Walters | Mar 3, 2021 | Nature Connection
I don’t normally struggle with writer’s block, but a few weeks ago, my efforts to edit my novel hit a can’t-see-the-end-of-it, can’t-see-the-top-of-it stone wall. Words got harder and harder to find, like a river that shrank to a stream that shrank to a trickle,...