The Energy Experience Monthly Book Club
We kick off a new series in November 2025! The book club pick is Wild Chorus by Brenda Peterson
Join The Energy Experience community for 60 minutes of celebration within the written word. This will be a facilitated time dedicated to connecting our hearts and minds with writing that heals, enlivens, and inspires. We will meet online (via Zoom) to connect and discuss. Pull a copy off your shelf, find it at the library, purchase it from one of your independent bookshops, borrow it from a friend (and invite them to join you!), grab your e-reader, or listen in . . . and then let’s gather.
Date
December 18, 2025
7:00–8:00 PM Eastern
Register
Tap the button below to register. You will receive the details for the call three days ahead of the gathering.
Cost
There is no charge to attend this gathering. In exchange, we ask you to donate what you are able on a sliding scale. Please consider how much you would typically pay to attend a facilitated, one-hour gathering like this—and then donate that to December’s featured nonprofit: the Center for Whale Research.
Dedication, Intention, and Housekeeping
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From the author’s website:
Wild Chorus has won a prestigious 2025 Gold Medalist Award from Independent Publishing (IPPY) in the Save the Planet category!
In Wild Chorus, award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet.
From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals’ intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation. Featuring vivid, visionary stories, Wild Chorus reveals a world filled with inspiring lessons of kinship, connection, and living in the present. Join Peterson on an incredible journey as she speaks for animals as both an artist and an activist to discover the power of learning from the natural world.
“I WAS RAISED as a wild animal. My early years in a remote Forest Service lookout cabin in the High Sierra, we were surrounded by more animals than people. Imprinting on animals, I expected to grow up to show off the most luxurious velvet antlers, to howl harmoniously as a wolf, to steal unseen like a fox through the seemingly endless, old-growth forest.”
READ the review from EcoLit Books Here
This remarkable book is a memoir, a unique lesson in natural history, a love poem to the wild, and a plea for peaceful coexistence with the natural world. Brenda Peterson is a multiple-award-winning, tremendously versatile, and prolific author…
– EcoLit Books
The books and nonprofits we have celebrated and supported so far . . .
November 2025 — The Book of Joy (Ridgeline Language Arts)
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”