birding

Maddie got me to start birding bc she knows better than almost anyone how depressive and inside-y I can get (now I’m inside-y for physical health reasons instead of mental health reasons; life is complicated and have I mentioned how much I hate Descartes??), and she was right as always. I have never reached her level, tho I was getting pretty good before I got sick. I vividly remember this moment I was walking in Green-Wood, and my Merlin app started hearing warblers, and I looked up into the trees with my binoculars and all of a sudden my vision shifted and I could just see them everywhere, like this whole private world had come to life. I obviously cried and I obviously also texted Maddie. Maddie’s rec is so lovely, and I really am so grateful to her for introducing such a beautiful thing into my life.