Island of the Blue Dolphins

If you haven’t read it, or not since you were a kid, consider reading the Island of the Blue Dolphins.

It’s a beautiful story about a girl who survives alone on an island for years. She builds houses, explores, finds food, and befriends animals.

The end was sad: she goes back to society and immediately back to being policed as a woman. But she does it for the sake of being in community again.

Anyhoo, I was inspired because I would love to live on an island alone. I enjoyed learning all the techniques she used to survive, and how she spent her days creating her world.

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