Carol Babcock has been keeping journals for most of her life, at least since she embarked on life as an adult. With no one to translate this world and no one to talk to, the sound of a pencil on paper sufficed. Some were nature journals, but with a spiritual perspective deeply integrated. She can’t see nature without seeing the wisdom of intelligence organizing the whole. Nature makes spiritual sense.

Her latest book, Turn & Walk: An Unexpected Quest, published in March is a memoir of an eight-year season of chaos, loss of family, and discovery.

Chaos when logic and rules she complied with her whole life became nonsensical. They didn’t change, she did. She began hunting for truth.

The loss of family traumatic because she valued family more than anything in this world and divorce cut it all up.

Discovery of spiritual freedom as her previous life was stripped away. Not just discovering her own spiritual identity but experiential knowledge of God and a truer understanding of God’s character.

Other writing includes a couple of poems published on library sites, essays in collections, and a Thanksgiving recipe book, Family Feasts: Pies and People, 2012.

A little history from my point of view

My early childhood passed while roaming the barren pastures of northeastern Colorado, loving the smell of dust and pasture grass. I served 4.5 years in the U.S. Navy’s aviation sector of antisubmarine warfare, married, and raised three brilliant and precious people. As they fledged, I began my college education and fell in love with geoscience, studying details, and growing an even deeper connection with the natural order of Life and science. I taught college and tutored middle school, delighted with others’ learning. I also coached homeless persons hunting new careers, enthusiastic about their potential. In all environments, trying to share the optimism of each next step.

I’m an explorer. I’ve traveled to fourteen countries and all fifty states, most by rail or road, trying to avoid cities. Maps are my native language; however, road trips are less about a destination and more about the journey, insightful observations, and new discoveries. Wayfinding is my typical approach.

I discovered semantics from reading S. I. Hayakawa’s essays and learned there was an emotional difference whether I named my yard a lawn, grass, or turf. I hope to release accurate meaning in my writing.

Personality assessments say I’m a Meyers-Briggs INTP: an intuitive introvert who thinks and perceives the world. Another assessment says I’m an Enneagram type 5, who investigates and questions as naturally as breathing. I do not judge or close the door on any idea. When I need to know anything, I gather books and experiment.

I write to explore ideas. I publish to share them, perchance to connect with another person who wants to share their process or discoveries. I’m on a continual quest for dynamic spiritual wisdom.