Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/13/2025
6:30 pm-8:00 pm

Location
Green Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

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Our connection to the natural world is a deep and inherent bond that transcends time and space. It is a relationship that has shaped our existence for millennia. Do you want to learn more about your connection to the natural world? Join us in a book club to explore the spiritual connection in nature beyond religion as we read all types of books to help you explore your spirituality in a non-traditional way. All discussions are in person at GBAUUF. Open to the public!

January’s Selection:
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl ©2023
This book is a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in the author’s backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, to the lingering bluebirds of December—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For, as Renkl writes, “radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.”

Future Meetings and Books:
• March 10, 2025 Backpacking with the Saints; Wilderness Hiking as a Spiritual Practice by Belden C. Lane © 2015

• May 12, 2025 TBD