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, October 8, 2008

I started walking around the building...

What a beautiful autumn array of colors and folliage. The colors of autumn and the warmth of the south seem not to match eachother.
On my break, I get to walk around the building and admire the scenery. I see that the spiders seem to make tremendous use of this season to spin kites and sails that catch the wind and flapped profusely. It looks like there will be a contest today on the bushes for the insects to bounce across the bushes. They look like a series of trampolenes and if I were little as a mouse or a sparrow I feel like I would enjoy bouncing on them like a trampolene.
What really attracts me around the building are the hills. I want to roll down those hills and enjoy the beauty of the grass as I roll. I could just see myself landing at the bottom of the hill and crashing against the trees at the bottom.
Why did you roll down the hill, Mrs. Walker? Because they were beautiful. That is not a sufficient answer and they would take me to a hospital to study my psychosis if I would. So I hope that you young people roll down every hill you see so that you can look at the hill when you come to work and say, I know how that feels because I did that already.
The sparrows are grieving this week, because they lost another one to the bouncing against the sun on the window. I just wonder if the sparrows don't allow their sparrowlings enough freedom so that they don't fly into the window like that. I am respecting their sadness this week.

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For the Birds?

For the Birds?
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Sparrow's Spring nest

Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow were caught, by me yesterday, shopping together for a new home. They flitted and flirted, just outside my window. Talking and discussing and lovingly disagreeing, if not arguing the benefits and the pitfalls of living at our house.
Mrs. Sparrow was very impressed with the 2 "ready made" nests hung outside our window. Mr. Sparrow hadn't even thought of them as "ready-made" nests. He used them for the provision of building materials for the private home that he had in mind in a surprise and hidden place. He doesn't like the openness, at all, of our porch. It's much too populated. When Mr. Sparrow gets it into his mind to give his sweet chicky a peck, he wants the freedom to do it without a bunch of younguns peeking over the nest to see what comes next.
Mrs. Sparrow was impressed that the porch was fully protected from hailstones. We all know what happened to a great many of last years' nests in that surprise hailstorm we had. Male birds seem to have a very short memory for storms. They have only one thing in mind in the nest building season... 03/09