They put on some new age, spiritual tape, and it was all beautiful birdsong. I once had a massage, a full body massage. In those days, there was, you know, like the young ornithologist club, things like that. I do remember my walls were just plastered with birds and at any opportunity I’d go bird watching. And I think birds just, I don’t actually know. I think nature was always a safe place for me in that way. And so I think I was a bit of an odd kid in some ways and, my way of connecting with people, you know, was maybe being outdoors. There was a complicated word for it, but I can’t remember how to say it. You know, I grew up in England because I’ve got a kind of audial dyslexia. I wasn’t really intelligible til I was five or six. I couldn’t speak English when I was young. She said, no, no, we got into it the same time, you were just as into it as I was. I always thought my mom inspired me, but recently I’ve talked to her about it. I wanted to be a lepidopterist, someone who studies butterflies when I was about five, cause I was obsessed with butterflies and then something happened with birds and I just became completely obsessed with ’em. I suppose those rifts just didn’t develop in my childhood. And I think the question would be what factors or influences or forces in your life led to a disconnection and a dislocation and a separation from being in nature. I think the question could be, how did you lose your… to someone else, like how did you lose your love of being outdoors? I think our blueprint as human beings is to be born in deep connection with nature.

It's Complicated by Robin Bowman