Day 7
February 21, 2008
It’s hard to shut my mind off tonight. So many things to think about. A couple of critters work to distract me: Red Squirrel chatters a complaint that it is already bedtime. A bird teases me with a call and a flight pattern, but not much else to help with ID: Flap flap glide “Cheep”… Flap flap glide “cheep”… Then it disappears into the brush and continues its cheep-cheep, cheep-cheep for a another half a minute or so.
After that it is still. Oh there are the usual human-associated sounds – airplanes overhead, a car on the road, distant dogs barking, my dog digging and chewing. But otherwise, it is still. An almost unreal stillness.
I feel weepy.
