* Yesterday's birds: cardinals (just the fellas):
(photo from Texas Parks & Wildlife)
and turkey buzzards riding high on the thermals:
(photo from www.browncountyphoto.com)
(Turkey buzzards = vultures.)
* Did you ever notice how people gather around the baggage claim at the airport like a miracle is going to come out of it? And then when their bags come out, they bow down to them?
* I gave up something big. It was hard and scary to do. Now I am walking in the knowledge that maybe it will actually give me more freedom. I have to keep breathing.
* I have such a settled sense lately of life as a continuum. Of myself as myself, and that people will come and go on their own paths, and it will be all right.
* I read a book over the weekend called Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume. I am the right age that Judy Blume books were a big part of my growing up, and I certainly identified with some of this book. But I was reading and napping, and I think that was a mistake: because the unhappinesses of the adolescent years in the books and in my own life filtered into my dreams. :P This somewhat negated my good place in the previous point. So, read this book when you are fully awake and adult! and, say, not feeling worried about an 11-year-old niece or daughter. I'm to the point where I've blessedly forgotten a lot of the ugly parts of that.
* Birds. Birds don't make fun of each other. Do they?
