sweet auburn | 2020 volume ii
Stay Inspired During These Uncertain Times with Clare Walker Leslie ’ s new book : A Year in Nature
“ Naturalist , artist , and great friend at Mount Auburn , Clare Walker Leslie ’ s frequent visits to the Cemetery often accompanied by her granddaughters highlight Mount Auburn as a place to slow down and contemplate the realities of time , space , life and death . It gives me great pleasure to recommend A Year in Nature .”
— Dave Barnett , President and CEO of Mount Auburn Cemetery .
“ After writing twelve books over a period of forty years , I said I was finished . However , my life and the life around me has changed and I felt it time to offer to people pages from my own personal nature journals which have been my guides and deep sources for both learning and solace since I began writing books , back in l978 .
Eleanor Shavell is a Watertown artist and photographer who has been visiting and birding at Mount Auburn for many years . Her parents are buried near Willow Pond .
“ Beginning with the Winter Solstice and going through the twelve months of the year , I have chosen one hundred twenty-two pages from my own journals … revealing my reflections , doubts , joys , responses to both family , political , environmental worries and the deep solace I continually find going out into my local nature .
“ As both urban and rural naturalist , educator , wife , mother , grandmother , I open my journal pages as they are personal yet universal to all of us as we question our own lives in balance with the ongoing and continual cycles of nature ’ s seasons .” — Clare Walker Leslie
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