Rebecca Lawton
Rebecca Lawton grew up boating, birding, and exploring North American waterscapes and deserts. She's now writing Boatwoman: A River Memoir, about the good, bad, and beautiful life of an early Grand Canyon whitewater guide. (beccalawton.com)
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Considerable Luck
In the weeks before my surgery I wandered parks and refuges where black-crowned night herons clung to cattails, pied-billed grebes fished ponds, and raucous crows cawed and flew upwind to find branches where they could shelter together. They would aim for a tree, fail to settle as a flock, then fall back and regroup to try again. Like the crows, I wouldn’t quit.
November 2025
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