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Susan J Tweit's avatar

"Love is all there is." Amen. And it is more powerful than even we know. Opening our hearts to love this Earth, battered as our planet may be, is the only way to live in these times, or any time, for that matter. Much gratitude to you, Lindsay, for this elegiac essay, for Heartwood, and for your voice in this world!

Josh Jackson's avatar

My goodness what a beautiful time out there. Stunning words and photos. I wish so badly I could be there. Maybe one day.

Lindsay Branham, PhD's avatar

Thank you Josh! One day you will.

Robert M. Hamburger's avatar

There’s a place where beauty and loss sit side by side and neither cancels the other out. It takes courage to allow grief to open rather than close us, and in doing so it deepens our capacity to care. Connection is something something we allow ourselves to feel. And from that place, the way we move through the world begins to change.

Marya Mcneish's avatar

Amazing! We were the other Americans there that night. Thank you for capturing our shared experience so beautifully!

Lindsay Branham, PhD's avatar

Oh, how lovely!! So wonderful wasn’t it? Grateful to have shared that together.

Leah Rampy's avatar

A beautiful telling of a profoundly bittersweet night. Thank you for bearing witness with the nightingale.