Hi everybody this is Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the

Joe Gardner show today I am so happy to have Margaret Wrinkle back on the

podcast I hope you heard my prior conversation with her about her New York Times best-selling book, The Comfort of Crows.

It is one of my newest favorite books and I keep it on my nightstand as a treat to myself

as I wrap up my day with some positive wisdom from any one of Margaret's essays from that book. book, which is the perfect springboard for each of us to write our own version of the

comfort of crows. Hopefully you've read that book by now, but if you haven't, you

need to add that one to your list too. But her newest book is called Leaf Cloud Crow, a weekly backyard journal.

I've had a chance to receive an advanced copy and my gosh, what a brilliant idea to give us a wonderful

resource with guided prompts and beautiful illustrations

from her brother Billy to inspire us with our own week-by-week journal.

I don't know about you, but I haven't been very consistent try as I might I just haven't found that perfect

opportunity for consistent journaling but I think I found it with this book Leaf Cloud Crow I love that it

that it goes through the year week by week season by season

with just the right amount of weekly inspiration

to record your personal thoughts and observations. So today I'm speaking with Margaret

about her newest book to learn more about the inspiration behind it, her

thoughts for readers to get the most out of it and of course the rich spontaneous wisdom that comes from any

conversation with Margaret in the moment as you will surely hear in today's episode.

If you don't know Margaret yet I am pleased to introduce you to her.

Margaret lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She's the author of several excellent books,

including her New York Times bestseller, The Comfort of of Crows and late migrations before that

she's also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times where her essays appear

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