Lili Taylor, Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Award-winning actor and debut author Lili Taylor chats with Zibby about TURNING TO BIRDS, a collection of beautifully crafted, inquisitive, eye-opening essays about the search for peace in a cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments. The two dive into Lili’s deep love of birding—how it began well before the pandemic and became a way of seeing and being in the world. They explore the emotional and neurological power of paying attention, the art of listening, and the beauty of connecting with nature to feel more at home in ourselves and the world. Lili shares stories of rooftop bird rescues, birding in unexpected places, and her quiet but profound journey into authorship.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.5	Lily Taylor is the author of Turning to Birds, The Power and Beauty of Noticing.
0:50.1	Lily has starred in such films as Ship of Fools, Ransom, Girls Town, I shot Andy Warhol,
0:56.2	Shortcuts, Dog Fight, Say Anything, Public Enemies, and The Conjuring, and of course, Mystic Pizza.
1:03.2	She appeared on television and HBO's Subway Stories and on stage in Three Sisters and Avenue Boys.
1:09.1	Welcome, Lily. Thank you so much for coming on
1:11.5	Totally Booked with Zippy to talk about turning to birds, the power and beauty of noticing.
1:16.5	Congrats. So you are a birder. You have taken us through this time. I've downloaded the
1:22.8	apps you recommended. I am like all in it, ready to go. And I'm like talking to my, I'm like, look up,
1:29.4	listen, we can do this. I'm trying your experiments. Anyway, it was. How did you get into your
1:37.2	birding life and when did you decide to turn this into a book? Yeah. Well, I really feel like I had a COVID moment, but I just had it a lot
1:46.6	earlier than everybody else, you know? I really do because like during COVID, I just was like,
1:52.8	oh, I know where you're at. Like people were telling me they were noticing this, we're noticing
1:58.4	that, but a lot of people were noticing birds, because
2:02.0	then they also remembered that I'd liked birds, you know, vaguely in the back of their mind.
2:07.3	But so I had, like, that quiet moment.
2:09.9	And I, something broke through, and I realized there was something going on out there
2:16.1	with those flying creatures and a lot more
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