The Spirits of Birds, Bears, Butterflies and All Those Other Wild Creatures - Paperback

by Thomas "dennie" Williams (Author)

This is a unique group of true to life nature tales emphasizing animal and bird interaction and communications with humans. The book starts with a short poem about Chickadees and ends with a poetic tour through the Costa Rican jungle. It opens with a prologue, relating how the author became fascinated with animals and birds through family influences and experiences. Then, an introduction explains the significance of interactions and spiritual communications among birds, animals and other creatures with humans. It starts with the first of sixteen chapters detailing fascinating interaction among people and birds and animals. The very first chapter, Blueberries, Butterflies and The Pig, explains how only late in life, I finally realized a spiritual, fascinating and inspiring interaction among humans and wild creatures, in this case butterflies, and people, is intrinsic; and, once realized forever inspiring.

Author Biography

Thomas "Dennie" Williams worked as a staff writer at The Hartford Courant for almost 40 years before retiring in November 2005 to become an Internet freelance investigative reporter. He graduated from the Choate School in 1958 and Middlebury College in 1962. For a short while, he worked as an interviewer and traveling spokesman in the college admissions department. After college, he joined the U.S. Army, went through artillery OCS and Intelligence School before he became a military intelligence officer specializing in investigating North Korean border crossers. When he returned from that assignment, Dennie worked on secret and top secret security clearances for government employees in Washington, D.C. He finished his military assignments in 1964 and was hired as a Courant staffer in 1966. Throughout his career at the Courant, he has been a town reporter, a night police reporter, a state desk reporter, a state and federal court reporter and an investigative team reporter. He has been a supervisor of state reporters assigned to investigative work. During his career, Dennie received numerous national, state and local journalism awards. He is an officer in a land trust nature preserve and a director in a waterfowl sanctuary.