All Flourishing Is Mutual
Wilson’s Phalarope - one of my morning sketches.
One day in 2020 a friend who had spoken in my classes a few times was showing me around his bison ranch. He’s an avid birder and within twenty minutes he introduced me to three “lifers,” birds I had never seen in the wild before.
And he pointed out that the bison create habitat for other animals, including wetlands that allow birds like the phalarope to live in an otherwise semi arid part of our state.
As Robin Wall Kimmerer and Kathleen Dean Moore have both written, “All flourishing is mutual.”
