Good for you, enjoying time in nature, and writing a book!
I'm reading one now via NetGalley - The Understory

It was this line that reeled me in:

"Walk in the woods with me."

That's the invitation to readers -
I'm trying not to be overly critical and judgmental but the author grates on me even though her book is praised as "Part Wendell Berry, Eugene Peterson, and Madeleine L’Engle".

Wilbert shares her story of alienation and disorientation after years of religious and political unrest .... she looks to an unlikely place—the forest—to learn how to live and even thrive when everything seems to be falling apart. What can we learn from eroding soil, the decomposition process, the time it takes to grow lichen, the beauty of fiddlehead ferns, the regeneration of self-sowing seeds, and walking through the mud?
.... Her tenderness and honesty will help readers grieve, remember, hope, and press on with resilience.

Walk with me ....

Those are some of my favorite words as I begin my own daily hike through the meadow and the woods. I call upon spirits of lost loved ones -- not just my dad and three sisters, but the loved ones my friends have lost. Niko and Bruni, walk with me... Grandma and Grandpa, join me as I commune with nature and seek to connect with The Great Something, the tie that binds....