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I wanted to share this, a beautifully written post about women and writing and a review of Terry Tempest Williams’ book “When Women Were Birds.”
In keeping with the spirit of the blog and the pure pleasure expressed, please treat yourself to this amazingly beautiful video of starlings in flight, whose choreography is like the northern lights.
A shout-out, too, to Claire’s “Word by Word” blog, http://clairemca.wordpress.com/ that led me to the review and the video.
Dear God, if I never read this book, I would have been at a loss.
I am completely, utterly, every whimsical note of my body, indebted to Terry Tempest Williams for everything she put on that blank page while she wrote, When Women Were Birds. (In fact, I would love to see her out takes basket). This book is the landscape of writing, the geography of being a woman – how your body is indebted to fields, and seeds, and words unspoken, left mingling with the soft air puffed just before you open your mouth. I have never felt more myself, and more a woman than when reading this book. I know, I know, I have this affinity for birds and I metaphorically and literally believe women were probably once birds, but that has nothing to do with the hope, and power of the words that are voiced in…
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Well worth following the link. Amazing video. Thank you for posting this.
I’m glad you like it. It was just too good not to share with others.
Thank you Deborah for the mention, reading your post on stumbling across colour and lush tropical growth in the Pacific and how overwhelming that was actually reminds me of the first time I ever saw that murmuration video, such a wonder of nature it almost brought tears to my eyes and the laughter of the girls a similar expression of that awe.
Yes, it’s amazing how nature can touch us so deeply that way. I also loved the women’s laughter at the end and the way they looked at each other, recognizing that they had witnessed something truly awesome together.
Thank you for sharing that post! It’s one of my absolute favorites, as is the book. I want to go read it again right now since Claire reminded me I read it in May! It feels like just yesterday. : )
It was my pleasure to share it. I’m eager to read the book now too.