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The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Comfort of Crows

by Margaret Renkl

Renkl's year of weekly essays from her Nashville backyard: birds, loss, climate grief, aging and attention, with her brother's collages. Quiet, lovely and grounding.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Attention to the small is a practice.
  2. Grief and wonder coexist.
  3. Home has wilderness.

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Read this week's essay and go look at your own yard.

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Quiet and grounding.

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