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For parents who live in a country where the dominant language is different from your native language: I would like you to please keep in mind that shaming your child for their accent doesn't always look like overtly making fun of them. Sometimes it look like telling them not to speak in public at all when visiting the motherland in order to not get charged tourist prices (This one happened to me, and now that I'm an adult, I've realized just how fucking insane it was. Like what do you mean my mother told me to not speak Spanish in public in Mexico just because she didn't want to pay an extra fucking dollar???????)

Patagonian Mountain trails  - Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile, March 2025

Photo by: nature-hiking

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

It's okay if it takes a little longer than you thought.

Another Daglish Feathursday

Here are some more wood-engraved renderings of birds by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his book  Birds of the British Isles,  published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies, with 23 black and white and 25 hand-colored wood engravings by Daglish. Want to know more about these feathery fellows? Here you go:

European Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)

Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Common Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)

Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)

Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator)

Northern Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)

Our copy is a donation from our friend, Wisconsin wood engraver Tony Drehfal.

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