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Patricia Wolf: The Secret Lives of Birds

The Portland composer and field recordist shares her bird-watching stories

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Stephan Kunze
Jun 29, 2024
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In her inspiring book How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, writer Jenny Odell talks about taking up bird-watching as a practice to escape the digital world for periods of time.

After finishing the book, I spent many afternoons sitting in my garden, trying to identify bird species with an encyclopedia from the local library.

Bird-watching is…

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