come back to
Because the park is on the flight path, the city corrals and euthanizes geese. Which mate for life, I confirmed on Wikipedia. The glow of the screen seemed to come off on my hand.
Ben Lerner • 10:04
the grey goose, if its mate is killed, flies on alone for ever.
Sheldon Vanauken • A Severe Mercy
'The opposite of doomscrolling'
“Birding is punk,” Lombardo said, scanning the trees for movement before the morning meeting. “It requires patience and awareness and it’s very real. Those [values] are very much counterculture. Being outside and in the real world is so sick and beautiful to me.”
Kenneal Patterson • In Greenpoint, a Wacky New Birding Group Is Ruffling Some Feathers
“Ask someone how they feel about death,” he said, “and they’ll tell you everyone’s gonna die. Ask them, In the next 30 seconds? No, no, no, that’s not gonna happen. How about this afternoon? No. What you’re really asking them to admit is, Oh my God, I don’t really exist and I might be gone at any given second.”
Go gentle into that good night
We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
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