Unlikely Sucess
Today, Jack alerts me to a beautiful bird in the Weeping Cherry. He talks to the bird with that strange broken meowing sound, moving his jaw rapidly. I’ve wondered for years why cats make this sound when they look at birds. My husband tells me that cats imagine eating the bird and therefore make munching […]
Keeping Hope Alive
Yesterday, this little girl (the one who lost her first tooth) brings home a homemade bird feeder. She announces that the bagel was “a rotten one, leftover from her teacher’s kitchen,” and the birdseed and spread cannot be eaten by humans. Noted. We hang the bird feeder on the winterberry bush. And we wait. […]
2 Secrets of the Wandering Albatross
Last night, my daughter wins a book about winged creatures at the school’s Bingo Night. We read all about butterflies, bats, hummingbirds, flying squirrels, bees, and ladybugs. Then, I turn the page and learn about the magnificent Wandering Albatross.I learn that the Wandering Albatross stays in flight for months without landing. I stare, stunned at […]