20. Life from a tree's perspective -- with Melina Sempill Watts

Mom has been wanting to chat about her birds, so she shares a
little bit about the bird paradise she has created in her yard
over the past four years. We also released the first episode of
our bird course on Patreon, so go check it out!
(https://www.patreon.com/motherdaughterearth)


Today we talk with the amazing Melina Sempill Watts, the author
of Tree. When Melina was 7, she and her family moved to Topanga,
California and she describes the magical experiences she had as a
child of taking in nature (with sounds, smells, and colors),
becoming friends with the plants in her area, and internalizing
the rich story that their interrelated lives told. Melina even
helps me see my connection to nature as a child in a completely
different way.


She goes on to share such a powerful story of an individual blade
of grass giving her energy when she was feeling at her lowest.
This experience was something she took with her the rest of her
life and it ultimately inspired her to write her book,
Tree. 


She talks about how the idea to write Tree came to her and then
what the process was like to produce a book from the perspective
of a 229 year old California Live Oak. She gives an amazing
comparison of how communicating with trees and plants is just
like learning a foreign language, and she provides some amazing
and practical ways that people can start opening up and
communicating with the plant world. 





-- Buy Tree on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Melina-Sempill-Watts/dp/0997692111/ref=sr_1_2?crid=22AI4EKZVO9YY&dchild=1&keywords=tree+melina+watts&qid=1612791135&sprefix=tree+by+melina%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-2


-- Visit Melina's website:
https://www.changetheworld-books.com/ 


-- Visit Melina's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/MelinaSempillWattsConsulting/ 





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