Walking Friendship

Years of walks in an upstate New York wildlife management areainspired two writer-photographers to create this volume of poems,essays, and nature images. Alternately meditative and humorous,spiritual, and earthy, seasonal and timeless, this book by DianeKavanaugh-Black and Carole Fults illustrates the growing friendshipbetween two people and between themselves and the natural world. The woods and paths at Partridge Run Wilderness Management Area inBerne, New York, are a container for their friendship, and a place towrestle with internal struggles. Yes, this book is about walking in the woods but is not a primer onhiking or plant identification, not a physical wellness manual orgut-wrenching memoir. Instead, in a shared meditation the authors take onvarious questions of our modern fragmented lives: How to slow thehell down. How to be curious. How to watch when there seems nothing to see. In the end, walking in the woods gives all of us lessons on how tolive wherever we are, how nature is in us and supports us while wesuffer and rejoice. Join Carole and Diane as they encounter nature and report back on thelush colors, funny conversations, a little high drama, internalconsternation, and revelations. You will not be disappointed.