From my window at work, the second story of a behemoth three story school building, a building filled with desperate traumatized children (and to be sure, adults--you know those adults who pull themselves out of unhappy childhoods and then try to have the hearts big enough to turn around and pull other children out? I teach in a school filled with them, and it is heartwarming, dangerous, precarious, and heartbreaking), I can see the following birds on a regular basis:
Chipping sparrows
House sparrows (eyeroll)
Bluejays
A red-bellied woodpecker
Wild turkeys
Canadian and snow geese
Coopers hawks
Red-tailed hawks
Bald eagles.
BALD EAGLES.
I am less than a half mile from the Mississippi River and I drive past a huge nest by the Chain-of-Rocks Bridge every day and think about the world I live in where I can see bald eagles in the wild.
Sometimes we fix our mistakes.
Whether our broken upbringings or our pesticide use, sometimes we mend what's broken.
And that can be enough.
Bald eagles? Wow. And yes, it can be enough when we fix our mistakes. I feel that way when I see kaka. This post made me happy.
ReplyDeleteVery nice list of birds you can see from your window at work.
ReplyDeleteI feel your Canadian goose entry deserves a second eye roll. Although maybe the snow geese cancel the Canada goose eye roll... Indigo?
ReplyDeleteI'll let Canadian go here for snow.
DeleteI just know Canada geese are the ones you eat because snow geese eat roots and therefore their meat is bitter.
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