This is an evocative, heart-felt tribute to a special place in northern Minnesota, where through observation and study the author transcends her human activities of daily living to merge with the natural rhythms and beauty of the living things around her and ultimately the seasons, the Earth itself, and the universe.
Chee, a bold, red-winged blackbird, first captures her attention, and his life cycle in the spring- and summertime marshes and lake next to the author’s home serves as the book’s overarching theme, along with the fauna and flora that cross Chee’s path and the author’s.
After the colorful activity during the spring, summer, and fall, the white winter landscape of the conclusion brings about the author’s existential convergence with universal nothingness and enormity, a moving final revelation.
Chee, a bold, red-winged blackbird, first captures her attention, and his life cycle in the spring- and summertime marshes and lake next to the author’s home serves as the book’s overarching theme, along with the fauna and flora that cross Chee’s path and the author’s.
After the colorful activity during the spring, summer, and fall, the white winter landscape of the conclusion brings about the author’s existential convergence with universal nothingness and enormity, a moving final revelation.
