This Collaboration by EDEN HUNDSDOERFER, R.J. SHONK, and SUSAN JOYNER-STUMPF, is Volume I of what will become a yearly sequel. The poems embrace the beauty and wonder of Nature and Wildlife. But also, within these pages, is the bringing of awareness to the atrocities done to Mother Earth, our Planet, and all who live here. It is the hope of these Poets that their voice, their cry, be the VOICE for those who themselves cannot speak. May we all come together and preserve this gift of Gaia. We must do a better job. So these poems write of pleasure and pain. But without pain, there is no growth. May we learn to come together and grow towards being the Guardians we were born to be. Before it doesn't matter anymore.