Journal 2: from Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams writes about her sense of belonging with nature and especially with the bird refuge in this piece. I could feel the empowering emotion she felt when she found out the burrowing owl’s mound was gone. The rage she felt when she realized that all memories and connections she had with the owl’s mound were erased and the men who took it away from her did not understand the relationship between nature and a sense of place that had been established. The men saw the mound as a negative embodiment on the landscape and by her reaction, a simple gesture of her middle finger, she gave that negativity to the men out of anger.