In his seminal work, “The Immense Journey,” author and anthropologist Loren Eiseley penned the often cited quote:
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in the water.”
That sentiment is certainly shared by News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams, who is just as likely to find magic in the palmetto scrub around her Alva homestead, exploring an old growth cypress forest, or even in a rare encounter with a powerful bird of prey while walking along a creek bed, as she tells us in this week’s encore essay.