Audubon Magazine

[lauradi7dw]

Most of my "activism" has been with a credit card or email window. After all this
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862838384/an-avid-birder-talks-about-a-conflict-in-central-park-he-taped-and-went-viral
I decided the best way to honor Christian Cooper was to donate (in his honor) to the national Audubon society, of which he is a board member. This required a phone call, and I thought I was clear that I wasn't joining the organization, just doing a one-time commemoration. I have started receiving the magazine anyway. It's about birds. It's *really* about birds. Any environmental reporting (there is a useful article about nurdles*, for example) is about how the environmental problem affects birds. Maybe this shouldn't be surprising, but I was surprised. When Flo was a kid, we belonged to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, so that we could visit their local sites, especially Drumlin Farm. I read their magazine, Sanctuary, at least partly because the graphic designer was a friend, Valerie Bessette (of blessed memory). Their 200th and final issue was in 2014, and it's available online. https://www.massaudubon.org/content/download/12534/197327/file/mpa-sanctuary-summer2014-full.pdf
As I remembered, it's about nature, not just birds specifically, and in this issue, there was a bit of politics, talking about how governments could prepare for climate change, and their regular poetry feature.
Now that I'm getting the Audubon magazine, I felt that I should use it. There is a how-to-draw-a-bird page. I tried it. The result is not too convincing, but I think people would know that I was intending to draw a bird. It may be the first actual drawing I've tried to do since I finished the drawing class I took at UMass Lowell ten years ago. Maybe I should try again sometime.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZrNy7Flw4

Comments

[sorcyress]

I would like to see your drawing of a bird! Also I am interested in what level of detail "how to draw a bird" gets into, because one of the classic memes about drawing uses birds.

(caution, uses the f-word but is otherwise sfw and mildly entertaining)

~Sor

[sorcyress]

((It's worth noting that I don't think you're actually particularly perturbed by the f-word, but I'm at a local maximum in my cussing cycle, which means I've noticed I curse a _lot_ and maybe I should try and do so less.))

[lauradi7dw]

I try when possible to have the f work be frick/fricking rather than its usual form, but I will admit that I use the traditional one toward Duolingo Spanish almost every day. The lack of articles in Korean is refreshing by contrast (not that other aspects of grammar aren't mind-blowing). I don't object to articles per se, even ones that require agreement.
It's being told a million times that one has to use articles and then getting usages that require no articles that trips me up. It happens in English, and even more in British specifically, but I don't mess those up. Interesting that the spell checker is OK with fricking but not with frick.
I was a fan of the 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica (and have visited Caprica City, well, Simon Fraser U), but did not start saying fracking, or however they spelled it.

[lauradi7dw]

Step 1 was basically the same. Step 2 was not. I will try to scan the images in question at some point, and add them.

[lauradi7dw]