Goodreads asked Brian Kindall:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Brian Kindall I live in the mountains of Idaho with my wife and three kids. We have long winters and we get a lot of snow. There's a vast forest on one side of us, and a frozen lake on the other. There are no people around in the winter. It's primal quiet. One day I was watching my youngest son Lee through the window. It was snowing and he was standing outside barefoot, perfectly still, holding his palm up to the sky. His hair was white with snowflakes, his pose almost poetic. He could have been a statue, or something out of a dream. At last, he was rewarded for a his patience when a chickadee landed on his fingers and started pecking at the seeds he held in his palm. Although I couldn't hear what he said, I saw my son's lips move as he whispered something to that little bird. They seemed to be friends. It struck me that Lee was in touch with Nature in a way that was unique. I thought I might like to write a book about someone like that, and so I did.

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