There’s something about nature that calls to me and I don’t know how to explain what happens when I go out in the woods except to say the trees and the air whisper to my soul. I don’t know what they say but I always feel refreshed and renewed after a nature walk. Perhaps this is why Margaret Dulaney’s book To Hear The Forest Sing appeals to me—for the past 25 years she has walked the woods with her dogs. While she walks, she ponders. Then once home from her wandering, she writes.
Some Musings on the Divine
To Hear the Forest Sing is the result of Dulaney’s writing following her morning walks. Arranged into categories like Reconstructing a Self and Pieces of a Puzzle, there are 26 essays exploring spiritual themes on a wide range of subjects. I find her approach unique and refreshing and enjoy the meandering nature of this compilation.
Even more interesting, To Hear the Forest Sing is a companion to the spoken-word website Listen Well. Here Dulaney publishes audio versions of her essays. In many cases a writer would publish a written blog of her daily musings but Dulaney has taken a different path.
I connect with Dulaney’s approach to life and writing and understand the dream for a simpler life, one filled with nature, stillness, contemplation, reflection, and writing. In fact, I wonder how much more writing I’d do if I adopted a daily walk in the woods practice.
To Hear the Forest Sing: Some Musings on the Divine synopsis
To Hear the Forest Sing is a collection of essays by the founder of the spoken word website Listen Well. Margaret Dulaney has been accumulating a life’s worth of spiritual musings for the past two decades. In 2010 she founded the spoken word website Listen Well, which offers one recorded essay a month to a growing number of followers. Listeners tune in for ten quiet minutes as she explores sacred and secular themes through story and metaphor.
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