Steve, another connection point for me with you and your world/writing.
I love birds, too. I notice them every day.
While in Colorado last week, I saw a dead owl (not sure what kind - we were driving on the highway near Denver). I see red-tailed hawks almost every day in my neighborhood; that, or I hear their haunting cries.
I recently finished reading Woman, Watching by Merilyn Simonds, a biography about untrained ornithologist Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, who lived to be 99 years old and emigrated to Canada from Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. Her observations in her own backyard are stunning and fascinating, which is why many esteemed ornithologists of her time took her research seriously - and why/how she was able to get published in well renowned journals, like Audubon.
Can't wait to see what you write about birds in your new book!
Thank you for the reminder to look and think small every day.
“There isn’t room in the mind for birds by the billions. Think small. One feather at a time.” Thank you for this reminder. The universal in the personal. Beautiful piece.
It makes sense on so many levels, as rhetoric, as a guide to effective and ethical action, to think small: a dead hawk is something we are wired to feel for, we can do something about and for it. Nice essay!
Steve, another connection point for me with you and your world/writing.
I love birds, too. I notice them every day.
While in Colorado last week, I saw a dead owl (not sure what kind - we were driving on the highway near Denver). I see red-tailed hawks almost every day in my neighborhood; that, or I hear their haunting cries.
I recently finished reading Woman, Watching by Merilyn Simonds, a biography about untrained ornithologist Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, who lived to be 99 years old and emigrated to Canada from Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. Her observations in her own backyard are stunning and fascinating, which is why many esteemed ornithologists of her time took her research seriously - and why/how she was able to get published in well renowned journals, like Audubon.
Can't wait to see what you write about birds in your new book!
Thank you for the reminder to look and think small every day.
That book sounds terrific! Thanks for the recommendation. 🙌🙌
You bet, Steve. It was excellent.
"The world is enormous. Think small." This is the line that has stuck with me. It's a beautiful mantra. Thank you for giving it to us!
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Nice. Small is everything large
“There isn’t room in the mind for birds by the billions. Think small. One feather at a time.” Thank you for this reminder. The universal in the personal. Beautiful piece.
One day at a time. 🦉
It makes sense on so many levels, as rhetoric, as a guide to effective and ethical action, to think small: a dead hawk is something we are wired to feel for, we can do something about and for it. Nice essay!
ok, time to refill my bird bath. thanks for the reminder Steve! can't wait for the book.