Good day, friends, Cosmo the Library Cat, here. You and I are fairly domesticated creatures these days, but if you’ve ever spent time around cats, you may have noticed that we still have a pretty wide streak of wildness in us, particularly at 3 a.m. when our humans are trying to sleep. (Fortunately, when a library cat such as myself gets the midnight zoomies, it doesn’t usually bother anyone, although the librarians sometimes wonder why books keep flinging themselves off the shelves during the night.)
There’s something big and wild and free in all of us, though we may express it differently. Does your heart get a little thrill when you hear the call of the wild geese in the sky? When the wind sounds like running water in the aspen leaves? When the coyotes sing in the distance? Does it make you feel like dancing? Like howling? Like knocking something off the table?
Lucky for us, it makes some humans feel like writing, and many of the finest poems, musings and meditations on wilderness are collected in the journal “Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry.” Even better, the talented folks who put this panegyric publication together are coming to visit the library, and you’re invited!
On Friday, November 22nd, at 7 PM, we’re excited to welcome back “Deep Wild” contributors Rick Kempa, Heidi Blankenship and Peter Anderson who are returning to bring us some choice poems and writings, inspired by time spent in the wilderness. I hope you’ll join us on this adventure as we explore “Words from the Wild.”
Arrrooooooo! Ahem, I mean Meow!
