My Summer with Ospreys

A Therapist's Journey Toward Hope, Community, and Healing our Planet

By: Pamela Lowell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

As a trauma specialist, Pamela Lowell expertly guides us to the connections between therapy, the life of an artist, and the natural world as a place of healing. Lowell, an avid birder, jumped at the chance to accompany the Massachusetts Audubon Society in their weekly Osprey nest monitoring project on the Westport River. She hoped to get some photos of cute Osprey chicks that she could use in her paintings—but what happened next was transformative.

In journal format, Lowell weaves together a deeply personal and exciting narrative as a passenger on the Lucky Me along with a cast of dedicated staff and volunteers. Nature enthusiasts will enjoy descriptions of the nest monitoring process, banding, and translocation of Osprey chicks. As an environmental ally, she perfectly captures our dilemma of being poised between desperate worry and the urgent need to do something specific to help our planet. With her watercolor illustrations throughout, this book inspires us all to be better stewards and healers of our ever-changing world.

“Witty, frank, warm, and kind, this is a book packed with treasures: great questions, astute observations, beautiful raptors, interesting and sometimes struggling people, exquisite art-and most importantly, hope. You'll love coming along with Pam Lowell on both water and land as she falls deeper and deeper in love with ospreys, learning more and more about them. You'll finish this book with a full heart, willing and eager to help the ospreys' conservation success story keep growing and to help save our beautiful, imperiled world!"

—Sy Montgomery, Naturalist and NYT best-selling author of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

“The ospreys in this book—and the author's deep, abiding interest in them—yields a series of unexpected gifts and self-made surprises, namely the friendship of those who are also drawn to these magnificent creatures. A thoughtful meditation on community and care.”

—Elizabeth Rush, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore