Andy and I have a central calling in our lives - a love affair with birds. This book was born of the impulse to rejoice and create in response to our experiences with them. We find ourselves moved and enraptured in their presence. They intimately connect us to earth, land, water, sky, seasons, flora, fauna, moths, moon, stars, joy, sorrow and all the gifts that being alive offers. Touching their erotic pulse, we return home to ourselves, to the wild, and our lives fill with a need to gush and share about how each bird is a book about beauty, mystery and the cosmos, written in feather and bone. As ancient beings, and descendants of dinosaurs and dragons, their wisdom seems unfathomable.
Like us, may you find yourself enchanted by them; may you go forth and enchant.
May they hold you and ground you in times of need.