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Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and Significant
Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and Significant | Kyo Maclear
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Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.
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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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Pickpick

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
- Løre Originals Legend Dry Hair Mask
- Coconut Lane Marble Notebook
- Korea Japanese Rose Shower Gel
- Squirrel Sisters Rasperry Ripple Bar

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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