The whole flock were travelling south and I saw them on a break, between here and Florida. Father Robin showed the flock the sine, cosine and tangent curves in the clouds and how they were growing closer in their rapidity which meant that snow was coming. Each row of clouds was counted and as they got to ten, he flew past them to mark the 5. I wasn't able to stay there till they counted all of the spirals. It was so interesting. Father Robin gives his fledglings all they need to travel with the flock successfully. None of them were lost and none of them were surprised or afraid of the weather.
The bunch of robins observing the clouds, like I look at the little clouds over the pond. How is the structure of the large clouds in ringlet lines like straw over the pond comparable to the huge spiral lines of clouds in the sky to the birds. They were looking at them to calculate something, it seemed. What would they be calculating from the ringlets? Gathering stuff, maybe severe weather, or maybe it tells them how far they have to go to get to the warmer weather. There was definitely some reconciling going on down there???
Now we see through a glass darkly
Helen Keller and her mother exemplified in the Miracle Worker
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