Winter Wren song is calling us home

The Winter Wren is my favorite local bird, and this Spring on my visits to the woods I seem to hear more of them than ever.  Their beautiful, melodious song is an invitation to choose a home: each year the males build a number of provisional nests, and then they sing to attract a mate to choose her favorite.  I love their hard work and optimism!  Less than half the size of my fist, they are amazingly powerful -- for their weight, they produce 10 times the volume of a crowing Rooster.

Small things can communicate powerfully -- like the actions we can take to live more harmoniously on the land.  Our choice of which nest, what kind of home we want, makes more of a difference than we may realize.  I will be posting a series of short essays on what I've learned during this past year of monitoring our remodeled house for the Living Building Challenge.  Some topics will be more practical, some more philosophical, but all have been part of what has changed in me and for me as a result of this project.

I hope you will find interest here, and maybe beauty, and maybe even an invitation to come home in a new way.

Written by Karen, Homeowner