When I started reading “Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World,” a spiritual and urgent memoir by Craig Foster, I was working long days at the computer, only breaking to scarf down dinner, kiss my children on the forehead and give my husband an apologetic look. Foster is known for his Oscar-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher.
Foster connects deeply with the animals he encounters: A sea otter strokes his face as they gaze into each other’s eyes. Great white sharks allow him to dive with them. The book even gets spiritual as Foster explains how deeply we are connected to other beings. “I feel frog, I feel dragonfly, and if I stretch my mind, I even feel rock. I’m a frog-rock-spider-dragonfly. I’m a galaxy, and so are you.