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    Where the Birds Fly Through
    Where the Birds Fly Through
    Where the Birds Fly Through
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    Where the Birds Fly Through

    By Tim Brandy

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    Where the Birds Fly Through is a book about death and life. It is a love story between a father and son. Lawson is devastated by the death of his son. Through the seasons and years that follow this tragedy, he learns to reconcile this great absence and his sadness and regret with the warm, joyful experiences he remembers with his son. In this healing, Lawson learns to enter then embrace life once again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781504950237
    Where the Birds Fly Through
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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 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.

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