Love this. Over the past year I've also been really into learning the names of the plants in my life (though sometimes I feel a little weird doing so via the identifying feature in my iPhone's camera roll!). It's also a key theme in Richard Powers's The Overstory, which I'm reading now and loving!
Beautifully written! I've become an avid birder over the past 4 years and it has made my life so much richer to know the names and habits of the birds around me. Paying attention to birds has brought places that previously felt boring or liminal into sharp focus.
Thank you, Kellum! Love that birding has helped you sharpen your focus. Honestly, I think playing Wingspan has been a gateway drug for us—we notice birds all the time now.
Rich rich rich! I will have to read this another two times at least! Some things I've halfway thought myself, but never gone deeper....thank you!
thank YOU for reading, Lisa! I'm glad John's passion resonates with you too.
Love this. Over the past year I've also been really into learning the names of the plants in my life (though sometimes I feel a little weird doing so via the identifying feature in my iPhone's camera roll!). It's also a key theme in Richard Powers's The Overstory, which I'm reading now and loving!
yes! Honestly, a good use of tech. Tech that helps us enter life instead of drift away from it.
I've been meaning to read the Overstory—I've heard it's great. Thanks for the comment, Keegan.
Beautifully written! I've become an avid birder over the past 4 years and it has made my life so much richer to know the names and habits of the birds around me. Paying attention to birds has brought places that previously felt boring or liminal into sharp focus.
Thank you, Kellum! Love that birding has helped you sharpen your focus. Honestly, I think playing Wingspan has been a gateway drug for us—we notice birds all the time now.
Yessss!!! Wingspan is SO fun. We played it at least once a day for a month after we got it 😁
Such a wonderful place to step into the week. Thankful for this and your work, as ever.
Thanks for the encouragement, Michael. And for reading—I'm grateful. I should show John how encouraged people are by this; I bet he'll be flattered.
Thanks, Michael. This hit just right this morning!
Grateful it's good timing! I hope all your research and writing projects are going well.