Thoughts in Solitude The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps

The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries

How they met (on a blustery day)

While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking

He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood

Thoughts in Solitude The Backyard Bird Chronicles mapsThoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when