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October 2009 
magpie this time
Posted on Feb 4th, 2007
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Farland
Farland
Why did humans come out so funny looking and full of needs? What grace! What beauty! And to live outside all winter in such a coat. I read a wonderful story once about a woman who was dying. She spent her last year studying the Peterson Field Guide to find which bird she was going to become.
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beautiful!!! And I love the question, ”why did humans come out so funny looking and full of needs?” I'm sure religions could find so many reasons… but somehow it seems like a question that needs to sit there like an already full cup that the addition of one more drop would ruin the tenuous balance and spoil it all…
… i’m going to be a chickadee next time around … i love birds … everytime i see a feather i tuck it away and add to this collection i have going … i keep thinking that i am going to build a piece of sculpture from it … but maybe i am going to build wings … :)
I hope she didn't pick the dodo bird.
It was some arctic water bird. The book is one of my favorites “In Fond Remembrance of Me” by Howard Norman. But picking the Dodo would be an interesting thing. What would really happen to her then? Nothing disappears absolutely.
Wow! the post goes so powerfully well with the image… I feel it. I will be a dove or raven the next time around, I think… those are the two I see most often in this life.
farland – today I read this article in Ode Magazine about birds and memory and thought of you and now I’m home and you’re posting about birds again, of course.
I just went to see if I could link to the article here, but it’s not online, just in the print magazine. I’ll save it for you.