Join us for a conversation between Kati and author Susan J. Tweit, hosted virtually by Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe.

Susan J. Tweit is a writer and plant biologist inspired by terraphilia, our species’ inborn love of the Earth and the planet’s web of lives. She writes: “My calling is to inspire you to find spiritual & creative nourishment in deepening your relationship with this living planet. To open your eyes and heart to the “other,” whether other people or other species. To show you the wonder and awe in the wildness around us—the sacred in the ordinary. And through that to help you find your best and kindest self, your whole self, one able to live with love and compassion for all with whom we share this planet (starting with you!).”

In Susan’s memoir Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying, she and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a good life when Richard one day saw thousands of birds―harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later. This compelling and intimate memoir chronicles their journey into the end of his life, framed by their final trip together, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon road trip.

You can purchase signed copies of Kati’s book Lightning Flowers and Susan’s book Bless the Birds directly from Collected Works!