HeyJaredThe Noticer's Monthly
McGolrick Bird Club gets neighbors, artists, skaters and weirdos birding. The Noticer's Monthly is that work put in writing. Awaken your animal genius! Participate in the great unity! Tongue kiss the natural world, beak first!
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 12
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- Sep 27, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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These Days (opens the original)
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Fall makes time visible.The light thins, the leaves fling themselves into cooling air, the birds move through the city on their way somewhere else. Everything seems to be moving.And there is a particular temptation, in turbulent times like these, to lean into that—to lean toward an imagined, better future. To dream that somewhere just beyond the present and its attendant difficulties is a version of life we are waiting for. A calmer phase. A quieter season. A time when things finally make sense.
The Autumn Threshold (opens the original)
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Another bright light went out this microseason. Annie Dillard was 81.(How is it that Annie Dillard‚along with Wendell Berry, Dolly, and Gloria just two microseasons ago—gets called back to source, while psychopaths who make up our current ruling class—who have bodies like bags of milk—still roam the earth? I don’t know, but the cosmic gardener doesn’t make mistakes.)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uygc!,f_auto,q_auto
Grackles Gather (opens the original)
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Anyone else been NOT GOOD or dizzy or otherwise vroooming along the modern-life highway to hell, looking for off-ramps of relief?The first exit I like to keep an eye out for is meditation. Alongside a gym regimen, a takeout-meal moratorium, no phone, and lots of water, I consider meditation a first-rate safeguard against “the mind going all blarmy,” as Ringo Starr put it.So I’ve been mustering the will to rediscover my own practice. And as I try my damnedest, I’ve been reminded of my strange tho
Migration Mornings (opens the original)
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The world has lost a number of bright, beautiful lights lately. Dolly, Gloria, and many others, I’m sure, who quietly journeyed to the other side and now know the secrets. And then there’s another one who may have slipped your noticing: Wendell Berry.Berry was an author who I’m embarrassed to admit I only discovered recently. He was a farmer, a visionary, a man of deep integrity, and brilliant. Oh, so brilliant.He was a Christian too, but he was the most tolerable kind—eccentric, apolitical, and
The Irregular Issue (opens the original)
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An Irregular Mid-Week Entry?I don’t know. It’s a Monthly that behaves more like a Weekly. It’s a “newsletter” that changes lives. There are no rules. I’m sure you incredible specimens out there have the stomach for some flexibility.And I do know: I was double-dutying last weekend after being out of town. Couldn’t write. Didn’t hit send. Sorry. Hello. Anyway—In today’s irregular episode: seven irregular warbler plumages you need to look out for this fall.But first—<
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