A lively blend of memoir, natural history, and mindfulness practices, Zooburbia makes the case for being mindful and compassionate stewards--and students--of the wildlife with whom we coexist. With lessons on industriousness, perseverance, presence, exuberance, gratitude, aging, how to let go, and much more, each chapter shares the happy fact that none of us is alone--our teachers are right in front of us.
To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses. Urban and suburban residents share our environments with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer, and coyote. Many of us crave more contact with wild creatures, and recognize the ways animals enrich our lives, yet don't notice the animals already around us. Zooburbia reveals the reverence that can be felt in the presence of animals and shows how that reverence connects us to a deeper, better part of ourselves.
Tai Moses is the former editor of AlterNet, an online progressive news magazine, and other news weeklies in Monterey and Silicon Valley. A journalist for more than two decades, Tai Moses got her start in Santa Cruz working at The Sun. At the age of 17, she hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada before ending up in Yosemite National Park where she lived for nearly two years. She's been a pet store clerk, motel maid, animal trainer's assistant, and seasonal firefighter. Parallax Press is a nonprofit organization that publishes books on engaged Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh and other authors.
Join Bookshop Santa Cruz as Tai Moses reads from Zooburbia, answers audience questions, and signs her new book.
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To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses. Urban and suburban residents share our environments with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer, and coyote. Many of us crave more contact with wild creatures, and recognize the ways animals enrich our lives, yet don't notice the animals already around us. Zooburbia reveals the reverence that can be felt in the presence of animals and shows how that reverence connects us to a deeper, better part of ourselves.
Tai Moses is the former editor of AlterNet, an online progressive news magazine, and other news weeklies in Monterey and Silicon Valley. A journalist for more than two decades, Tai Moses got her start in Santa Cruz working at The Sun. At the age of 17, she hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada before ending up in Yosemite National Park where she lived for nearly two years. She's been a pet store clerk, motel maid, animal trainer's assistant, and seasonal firefighter. Parallax Press is a nonprofit organization that publishes books on engaged Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh and other authors.
Join Bookshop Santa Cruz as Tai Moses reads from Zooburbia, answers audience questions, and signs her new book.
A lively blend of memoir, natural history, and mindfulness practices, Zooburbia makes the case for being mindful and compassionate stewards--and students--of the wildlife with whom we coexist. With lessons on industriousness, perseverance, presence, exuberance, gratitude, aging, how to let go, and much more, each chapter shares the happy fact that none of us is alone--our teachers are right in front of us.
To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses. Urban and suburban residents share our environments with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer, and coyote. Many of us crave more contact with wild creatures, and recognize the ways animals enrich our lives, yet don't notice the animals already around us. Zooburbia reveals the reverence that can be felt in the presence of animals and shows how that reverence connects us to a deeper, better part of ourselves.
Tai Moses is the former editor of AlterNet, an online progressive news magazine, and other news weeklies in Monterey and Silicon Valley. A journalist for more than two decades, Tai Moses got her start in Santa Cruz working at The Sun. At the age of 17, she hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada before ending up in Yosemite National Park where she lived for nearly two years. She's been a pet store clerk, motel maid, animal trainer's assistant, and seasonal firefighter. Parallax Press is a nonprofit organization that publishes books on engaged Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh and other authors.
Join Bookshop Santa Cruz as Tai Moses reads from Zooburbia, answers audience questions, and signs her new book.
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To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses. Urban and suburban residents share our environments with many types of wildlife: squirrels, birds, spiders, and increasingly lizards, deer, and coyote. Many of us crave more contact with wild creatures, and recognize the ways animals enrich our lives, yet don't notice the animals already around us. Zooburbia reveals the reverence that can be felt in the presence of animals and shows how that reverence connects us to a deeper, better part of ourselves.
Tai Moses is the former editor of AlterNet, an online progressive news magazine, and other news weeklies in Monterey and Silicon Valley. A journalist for more than two decades, Tai Moses got her start in Santa Cruz working at The Sun. At the age of 17, she hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada before ending up in Yosemite National Park where she lived for nearly two years. She's been a pet store clerk, motel maid, animal trainer's assistant, and seasonal firefighter. Parallax Press is a nonprofit organization that publishes books on engaged Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh and other authors.
Join Bookshop Santa Cruz as Tai Moses reads from Zooburbia, answers audience questions, and signs her new book.
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