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Tim Brandy
Tim Brandy is a father, an educator, and a self-educated naturalist. As an educator, he taught writing and science for three decades. His curriculum was experience based. He taught...view moreTim Brandy is a father, an educator, and a self-educated naturalist. As an educator, he taught writing and science for three decades. His curriculum was experience based. He taught students to pay attention outdoors and to ask questions about things they noticed. He directed them to write their observations and experiences in journals. His writing students wrote weekly of events in their lives. It was, Tim asserted, through consciously experiencing life, reflecting and capturing their stories, that they would know themselves and others.
Tim was deeply affected by the death of a classmate in elementary school. Later when he was in high school, he experienced death of a peer and of his favorite teacher. These things informed his writing. As a father, he was always aware of the narrow barrier that kept his children safe and alive and felt grateful every day.
Tim’s best friend had a son die tragically at a young age. He witnessed the grief that never left and the slow, tentative return to life of this boy’s parents. He experienced disease diagnosis with his own children.
Where the Birds Fly Through is his response to these experiences. It is a love story between a parent and a child that continues to grow even after the child’s death. Tim reaches deep into his experiences as a father—parental trials and fears, regrets, and complete joy. It is a work of fiction rooted in the reality of stories he has collected from his own life, the media, and friends.view less