A Layered, Textured Life Starts with an Interest.

I started birdwatching last year, out of a growing impulse to connect with something deeper, something more rhythmic. In the space of a little more than a year, I feel like a new layer has been added to my life. 

My world is now full of new sounds and ideas and textures. 

When I pick up a new bird sound with the Merlin app on my phone, I feel a new moment of delight. Yesterday, I heard a mockingbird near our house for the first time. And days when I don’t hear the sounds of bic...