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"I love this book. The personal anecdotes in A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine make them real, and they show how Dana Wilde is passionate about them, making it fun to follow as he opens a new world, not just to those spiders of Maine but through them to the rest almost anywhere, and to anyone. There is so much fascinating to see in nature, as this book shows." --Bernd Heinrich, author of A Naturalist at Large, Summer World, Winter World, and others

"The naturalist, says Emerson, must satisfy all the demands of the spirit. Dana Wilde does that by uniquely unifying acute perception with that transcendental metaphysic that Emerson unabashedly called Love. Wilde is the poet of facts, his science always in the service of reverence and his universal intimations of spirit never "the easy gold of fay or elf," as Robert Frost praised a practice of the natural supernatural. Wilde is not an excursionist, but a seer who observes the comprehensive, year round fluidity of nature surrounding him and the eternal cosmos above him from his backyard in Troy, Maine. He is the best of the real thing, letting the obdurate bleakness and the rampant beauty of Maine inform each other in wit that is invariably wise and intimate. Every essay in this book can teach us like parables of understanding and reason how to unite devotion and thought to be whole people in our waking lives." --William Hathaway, author of Dawn Chorus and The Right NoFrom first signs or unseen sense of Fall's closing in, to the certain loosening thaws and drips prefacing ice out, from First Peoples' tellings and showings to the habits of next inhabitants here, now, and in whatever untamed future survives the changing climate, this book is a fire for the darks and lights of winter in Maine. And a source, as any fire is, of realization, solace, and meditation burning perfectly, steadfastly, through Winter's grief and any joy to be found. Season by season, discovery by revelation, no one in Maine works harder, truer, nor more beautifully and imaginatively than Dana Wilde. --Patricia Ranzoni, author of Settling and Bedding Vows

In the vastness of the human experience, we sometimes overlook the relationships most precious to our hearts. That of our sacred privilege and responsibility to nurture all children. Conscious Brain Training from your heart is a key to cultivating happiness. This book asks parents and teachers to reimagine how to teach and learn with their children. Instead of for them (and sometimes against everyone's best interests.) It provides easy-to-follow steps for how to neutralize negative programs with compassion, joy, and love. In the words of The Mind Aware creator, Dana Wilde, "But the best benefit of training my brain is that I know how to stay emotionally aligned. I know how to be authentically, deeply happy. Happiness is something that all of us have at our fingertips. We generate happiness by the thoughts we think, and each of us can become focused, proactive thinkers." This book provides a plethora of practices, techniques, and evidence of how to train your own brain for health, happiness, success, and creativity. The authors have also provided a myriad of styles to play with and model in your relationships, your parenting, your teaching, and your business. Once you begin to see the results for yourself, you will know how to model and practice with your children, students, and each other. Calm Parents Confident Kids: How to Use Brain Training to Raise Happy Resilient Children is a 21st-century essential reference manual for creating peace in your hearts, peace in the home, and more peace on earth.