This may be a geezer thing, or simply a factor of having more time to stop and smell the roses, but we have become avid bird watchers. Not fanatic, mind you—we don’t maintain a life list or anything. We just like to watch them at the suet feeder outside the kitchen window in winter. The activity of the birds masks the hideous color of our neighbor’s house and makes it disappear. I mention birds because the library has four shelves in the natural history section devoted to books about birds (call number 598). I am thinking this may be a factor of the age of the Friday Harbor population. There are indeed a lot of birders on the island, the kind who do keep life lists. |
Author Rebecca Moore is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She is currently Reviews Editor for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions and Co-Director of The Jonestown Institute. Archives
December 2021
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