The Names of Birds

Yesterday Renee and I were hanging out upstairs when we heard a kabonk. It’s rather amazing how quickly our brains can decipher the meaning of a particular sound, in this case the kabonk was immediately deciphered as the sound a bird’s body makes when it decides to fly headlong into a window.  This interpretation was [...]

How the Rain Fell Perfectly on my Skin

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It is evening.  Dinner has been eaten, and the children are cleaning up, or so we hope, in the kitchen.  The katydids fill the forest with their pulsing chatter.  I’m listening to them, and to Eva Cassidy singing “Kathy’s Song.”  I can’t decide which is more beautiful.  I’ll take both.
Yesterday I picked peaches.   I [...]

Protected: the Rain God

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