Why become a snowbird?

snowbird • \SNOH-berd\ • noun. 1 : any of several birds (as a junco or fieldfare) seen chiefly in winter 2 : one who travels to warm climes for the winter.

A snowbird used to refer to people who travel south during winter. Seasonal travelers. But only now, it’s hard to predict what season it is and when the next one will come. With the polycrises at hand - and I include mental, moral and social ones here as well - we’ll all need to be snowbirds. The truths of the past decade will need to shift. The way we did work yesterday probably won’t be how it be will be done 5 years from now. And of course, the places and climes we’ve taken for granted as forever stable won’t be so.

We’ve also become seasonal travellers when it comes to culture. We’re incredibly curious about the world and find ourselves taking up short term obsessions instead of long term hobbies. And we’re now raising a small curious person. As we forage the venn diagram of culture, society and tech - from making sense of modern parenting advice to the loneliness epidemic in east Asia - we try to make sense why something is, and what it might become.

And one of the best ways of making sense of something is to write about it. And one of the best ways of finding out if you’re on to something or just senile is to share your writing. That’s the ambition of snowbird.

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