weekly posts on literature, languages, and learning
I have recently been invited by a fellow blogger, John Stamos, to write a guest post for his wonderful website called The Renaissance Garden Guy. In it, I shared about my love of walking and birding, and how those two activities helped to make me a more discerning reader. In the same post I have …
Continue reading "On long walks, birds and poems (featuring Emily Dickinson)"
As I’m writing this on an early autumn evening, I can see a large group of crows flying over the nearby trees. With a golden sunset as a backdrop, it’s a stunning sight, and one I get to enjoy a lot this time of year. Inspired by that scene, in this post I'd like to …
Continue reading "Flocks of birds: ‘a murder of crows’ and other terms of venery"
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