I noticed in The Bridgetown Reader that Keith Egger and Allison Walker are conducting a guided mushroom walk on October 2nd. This inspired me to walk down from the Hwy #201 to the Annapolis River with my iPad in hand.
This week, we were tidying up some orphan books, left over in Andrew’s barn. They included Kim Stafford’s book ’Having Everything Right: Essays of Place“. In 1986, it won Western States book awards citation for excellence.
“In an age in which we often find ourselves at odds with nature, Stafford serves as a guide and interpreter listening for the ways stories name of region, a country, and with familiarity and affection, explicating the terrain for those of us who have forgotten or never learned how.”
Heather also found Randall Jarrell’s allegorical children’s book ”The Bat-Poet”, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. The bat shares his poems with the mockingbird, the chipmunk and finally with the other bats.
”The trouble isn’t making poems. The trouble’s finding someone that will listen to them.” p.15.
An interesting comment on the creative process.
Acknowledgements
Edward has been very busy with the Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival (see blog post). Heather has been constrained by cataract surgery.
Postscript
Edward, too, has been photographing fungi — near Newville Lake, north of Parrsboro.
References
Kim R. Stafford, 1986, Having Everything Right, Penguin Books.
Randall Jarrell, 1964, The Bat-Poet, Harper-Collins.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Bob
“…finding someone that will listen…” isn’t this the challenge of our times?
Brian
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Yes. The airways have been commandeered by government agencies and COVID.
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