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,...
by Meredith Walters | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog, Fear, Nature Connection, Purpose
Depression is on the rise. Rates were increasing in the US long before the pandemic, and after COVID hit, they tripled, with one study reporting that 27.8% of adults experienced symptoms in 2020. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety for almost 30 years, and the...
by Meredith Walters | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Career Change, Exercises, Nature Connection, Purpose, Uncategorized
I was walking through the winter woods in Colorado last year when I realized that every creature in the forest plays an important role. Plants take up nutrients from sunlight and soil and transform them into flowers, seeds, and leaves that nourish insects and birds....
