What Meaningful Bird Encounters Taught Me About Letting Go

{Photo by Renato Lainho for Scopio} “But I thought, of the wren’s singing, what could this be if it isn’t a prayer?” —Mary Oliver (from “I Happened To Be Standing”) The Wren Who Changed Everything One day in late 2017, I sat writing. On this morning, I rode a fretful moment, the worry du jour being my first novel, Wren , for which I wasn’t finding a publisher. The challenge of publishing a first…