In The Backyard Bird Chronicles, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birdwatching and the natural wonders of the world.
Julie DepenbrockShe was depressed with the state of the world then and was trying to lose herself in nature.
She began looking out her window and journaling. Soon, she had pages and pages of observations and drawings of the birds in her very own backyard. Those musings turned intoI tend to be an obsessive person to begin with, but one of the things I obsessed on in 2016 was the degree of racism that was being shown, and people now considered it almost their freedom of expression to say exactly what they thought about other people who were of a different race.
The other thing that he was tolerant of is that sometimes I would have a dead bird and I carefully wrapped them up, put the date when they were found and what the breed was. And then I'd put them in the freezer to give to the California Academy of Sciences. Then I feel they're going off to a very advanced institution, and it makes me feel better in a way. They will serve a purpose, even though they've died.
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