No, I'm Not Crazy...

My wild life in the wild.

I spent the morning with these incredible creatures.

I have a gator obsession, a bird obsession (especially Great Blue Herons and birds of prey), a shark obsession, a sloth obsession, a monkey obsession and that doesn't even touch upon all the animal family I've had.

I know over the last few months it seems like I've done a complete about face. Especially after starting out on Instagram sharing my poetry and then doing a podcast for about 6 ½ months. But I realized it just wasn't it. I just wasn't saying or participating in things that really fulfilled me. They left me empty.

Sure, I'm still writing poetry but it's totally involving nature, conservation and wildlife. My 2023 book DRINK NATURE was obviously a harbinger of where my life would be in 2026. I'm really grateful for that glimpse into my future.

I went kayaking with my son and it hit me what WAS it. That maybe I had been foundering after two years returning to social media from 7 years off of social media.

Trying to keep my entertainment and healing arts careers alive when everything went online during Covid and post Covid. Thinking that my past was my future and trying in many ways to fit a round peg into a square hole.

That time on the water under a canopy of trees, surrounded by wildlife, the sounds of wildlife, near perfect temperatures and with one of the few people who truly understand me, my son.

Then I realized I’d lost it for all of that.

It was what it was, when it was. It was no longer what is and what will be.

I'm so fortunate to live in a place where I'm surrounded, very closely to my home, by all kinds of nature and wildlife. But I can travel to observe all kinds of nature and wildlife. Incredible animals, incredible birds, incredible trees and flowers and plants.

This was what I chose to spend my morning doing.

I've been a conservationist for a really long time, along with everything else I've done. I understand animals, their behavior, what to look out for, when to be careful, and here are the fruits of that understanding.

Thanks for being here in this chapter of a book which began decades ago and insists on continuing to be written.

So much more to come, that I can't believe it. 💖