Now we see through a glass darkly

Now we see through a glass darkly
Helen Keller and her mother exemplified in the Miracle Worker

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Midsummer, Early Autumn,

all my birdfriends go up north to visit their cousins and show off their new batch of younguns and see if they can marry some of them off to one another. Tradition has it that yankee birds and southern birds make the best offspring, when mixed together. Their babies have a tolerance for heat and cold. This is the best season for the southern birds to see the lights of the big city for a little while.
They don't spend too long up north, because it is just getting ready to turn chill in the New York and New England area. They don't want to be caught up there for the first frost. So I expect to see them back at the building in about the first week of October.
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