Something solid
2010 April 24
MOBILE, ALA. — False expectations, when one has traveled too much and too fast, flicker readily across the consciousness: Toucanets could emerge from the mist. That stub should hold a treeswift. Am I looking for king parrots? Sights, smells, emotions trigger these strange moments. But other moments — the immediate and the real — are the ones that ground the self in time and in place.
An Eastern Kingbird, having just survived a nonstop flight across the Gulf of Mexico, rests a few yards behind the dune line on Dauphin Island, Alabama:
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Thanks—what lovely thoughts to ground me in this moment shared with someone I do not know yet feel a kindred spirit!
Amazing thoughts that will keep me thinking.