Meditations
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Courtesy of: Kristen Lindquist
Kristen Lindquist
Kristen Lindquist is a published poet who works as the development director for Coastal Mountains Land Trust in Camden.
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Tracking our summer birds south
By Kristen Lindquist - Feb 03Remember that unusual raft of 600-plus coots that hung out on Chickawaukie Lake into early January, dwindling down to two, then none, as the lake ...
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Meditations on totems and clans
By Kristen Lindquist - Dec 24A friend of mine believes the fox has special meaning for his family. Right after the birth of each of his daughters, three years apart, he saw a ...
Meditations on porcupines
By Kristen Lindquist - Oct 11Recently my five-year-old niece, Fiona, came to our house overnight for her first sleepover. After a viewing of the movie “Rio” — “because you ...
Meditations: On animal sounds; or, what does a chipmunk say?
By Kristen Lindquist - Aug 20Spending time playing with my young nieces, I’m reminded that among the first things we teach children — in addition to body parts (where’s your ...
Meditations on alders
By Kristen Lindquist - May 24In this season when leaves are almost the size of squirrels’ ears and the first wildflowers brighten the forest floor, when mornings resound with ...
Meditations on mass bird deaths
By Kristen Lindquist - Feb 13The new year began on an inauspicious note for wildlife. On New Year’s Day, several thousand red-winged blackbirds were found dead in Beebe, Ark., ...
Meditations on deer yards
By Kristen Lindquist - Dec 05Deer are not an uncommon sight here in Midcoast Maine, although it often seems like a special visitation when one crosses my path in the woods or ...
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Meditations on Whales
By Kristen Lindquist - Sep 21As a teenager I was obsessed with dolphins and whales, although at that time the only ones I had seen were in tanks at Sea World. When people ...
Meditations on eiders
By Kristen Lindquist - Jul 07Several summers ago my husband and I were dining at a fancy waterfront restaurant in Southern Maine when we heard the people at the next table ask ...
Meditations on mimics
By Kristen Lindquist - May 05One recent morning as I was leaving for work I heard the distinctive call of a broad-winged hawk -- a piercing, high-pitched, two-tone whistle. ...
Meditations on gulls
By Kristen Lindquist - Jan 12In a high school writing class years ago, I wrote a compare-and-contrast essay on how to tell apart different species of Maine gulls. Even then, I ...
Meditations on screams in the night
By Kristen Lindquist - Dec 11A friend taking part in an owl survey a few years ago thought she’d heard a barn owl screaming in the woods. At least, she hoped it was a barn ...
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Meditations on the river in summer
By Kristen Lindquist - Sep 03A lot of creatures swim in the Megunticook River. From my parents’ house on the banks of the “mill pond,” we’ve watched beavers ply the waters ...
Meditations: Slugs
By Kristen Lindquist - Jun 27Consider the lowly slug. When I was a child of about five or six, I apparently did. My grandmother was busy with a sharp garden tool killing slugs ...
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Meditations on House Sparrows
By Kristen Lindquist - Mar 28If you know me or my husband, you might be surprised to learn that we own wedding china. Since we’re hardly formal types, it’s probably less ...
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Meditations on wintering eagles
By Kristen Lindquist - Jan 12During the colder months when many birds and humans alike head for warmer climes, one local population increases exponentially. The Midcoast ...
Meditations on cranes
By Kristen Lindquist - Nov 07When most of us here in Maine think of cranes, we might envision the tall, elegant white birds depicted in classic Asian art. Or, depending on how ...
Meditations on puffins
By Kristen Lindquist - Aug 11As August arrives and summer reaches its peak, I think of puffins. By early to mid-August, fledgling Atlantic puffins will have begun to exit ...
Meditations on summer birdsong
By Kristen Lindquist - Jun 16Although it has felt like summer for weeks now, with lupines having bloomed in roadside fields and the hum of crickets rising from our lawns, the ...
Meditations on sky phenomena
By Kristen Lindquist - Mar 31April showers bring May flowers, goes the saying. April in Maine, we expect rain. But mid-spring skies hold potential for more than rainy weather. ...
