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Birds Art Life Death
Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and the Significant | Kyo Maclear
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We live in a world that prizes the fast over the slow, the new over the familiar and work over rest. Birds Art Life Death is Kyo Maclear's beautiful journey to stake out a sense of meaning amid the crushing rush. One winter Kyo Maclear felt unmoored. Her father had recently fallen ill and she suddenly found herself a little lost. In the midst of this crisis, she met a musician who loved birds. When he watched birds and began to photograph them, his worries dissipated. Curious, she began to accompany him on his urban birdwatching expeditions and witnessed the magic of a transient city. Birds Art Life Death asks how we might gain perspective and overcome our anxieties by learning to cherish the urban wild spaces in which we live. Kyo urges us to find a subtle but restorative meaning in the every day.
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Andrea313
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It might be a bit of a somber choice for poolside reading, but it's also exquisitely lovely and reminding me to just breathe and be and enjoy. What more could you ask for on a sunny Sunday free of any responsibilities? #CurrentlyReading

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Such a beautiful, thought-provoking, challenging book. I loved every word and want to go back some time and read it even more slowly. Maclear goes month by month, exploring her new relationship with birds and a birdwatching friend while contemplating her past and present struggles, wider ecological ones, and lifting up those who have brought her to where she is now. I also love that it‘s set in my part of Toronto!
#Nonfiction2020 #Gratitude

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Singout

I regret the time it seemed better, somehow, to hang back and not step forward. I regret, along with writer George Saunders, the tepid and timidi response, the moment when another ‘being was there in front of me, suffering, and I responded…sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly‘...I regret that I am not propelled more by impulse, nerve, instinct.

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quietlycuriouskate
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Here's my reading wrap-up for March, brought to you from the scriptorium. ✒📖
I finished only four books.
Look at all that non-fiction! The tagged book was my favourite.
I need to reinstate my book-buying ban.

merelybookish So cool! 6y
jhod Lovely 6y
ephemeralwaltz Pretty!! 6y
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JazzFeathers Love this spread 😍 6y
wanderinglynn Love your journal! 6y
rather_be_reading whats scriptorium? 6y
Andrew65 Wonderful! 😍 6y
GarthRanzz Your journal looks wonderful! 6y
SamHeartCoffee Gorgeous! 6y
batsy Beautiful, as always 💜 6y
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quietlycuriouskate
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International Women's Day #bookhaul 😄
Here's to all the women who read, who write, who draw!

Lindy I haven‘t yet read the one by Paver, but rest are 5-star caliber. 😁👍 6y
quietlycuriouskate @Lindy That's good to hear! I think most of these are #blameitonlitsy . I'm currently a couple of chapters into a library copy of Birds Art Life and wanted one I won't have to give back in a fortnight's time. 😊 6y
Balibee146 Nice stack 😍😍 6y
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April2
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January‘s #ReadingInHeels #SubscriptionBox arrived today!

- Birds Art Life Death by Kyo Maclear
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- Coconut Lane Marble Notebook
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All of this = one very happy April! ?

readinginthedark How interesting—my copy of this from the library is just called Birds Art Life! 6y
Sophoclessweetheart I absolutely adored this box and this book! Xx 6y
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