From the sheer visceral delight of seeing sunlight shining through a delicate blue wildflower petal to the mysteries of migration, and a wild grouse adopting a human who didn't like birds, these stories offer a relief from the pressures and demands of the human world, and an increased joy and sense of connectedness to the miraculous natural world that can heal us. Collected from years of living at Earthfire Institute, a wildlife sanctuary that is home to rescued wild animals native to the Rocky Mountains, these essays are an aspect of the larger whole in which we are embedded. They are an ode to, respect for, delight in, and wonder at our Earth we have been given to live on.