Uncovering the Hidden Truths of Identity: A Riveting Journey Through Unbelonging
These connections help her to resolve significant questions about home and belonging. “Birding helped me reframe the question I’d been struggling with throughout my life about where I belong,” she writes. “Birds made me realize, deep down, that ‘settling’ in one place wasn’t the only pattern for a life, or even the most natural one.” She begins to “feel at peace about my own travels and more rooted in this terrain in the Yahara River watershed where I’ve happened to wash up.” This final essay offers a sense of closure that makes reading this collection a highly satisfying and affirming experience for a reader.
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