A World Without Birdsong [SSL 283]

Discovering the impossible sadness of silent forests and noisy wars

Is it really possible that we don’t have attention, time, or money to repair our silent forests that are now destroyed of birdsong but we have endless money for the killing of people and war?

I just wrote about the dramatic loss of songbirds in my region here. And there too, you can read some articles and info that informed me, if you’d like.

In contrast, the war weary world with its powerful profiteers rage onward ad infinitum.

To help us pay better attention, I’m featuring the poem:
Prayer to be Still and Know by Poet, Nickole Brown

Says, Nicole of the featured poem,
Feeding this idea are two books integral to my current study of human-animal relationships: David George Haskell’s The Songs of Trees and Jon Young’s What the Robin Knows (follow my Amazon Affiliate links to find these books)

Go here and hear the episode now: https://lisadelay.com/blog/a-world-without-birdsong-ssl-283

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⭐️ALSO listen to the POET read it:
To hear Nicole read her own work please use this link (in the Chrome web browser)

NICKOLE’S WEBSITE: https://www.nickolebrown.org/

Poetry books page: https://www.nickolebrown.org/books