[va-richmond-general] Re: what's it all really about?
- From: "katya" <katya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:04:12 -0500
I joined Aududon because all late spring I watched the nest of the Ospray at
the U of R stadium and had no one to share it with. I worried in fierce
thunderstorms; sometimes, when I am sure it hailed, that they could not have
survived and had no one to share it with. I joined Audubon because a bird high
in the North Carolina boughs haunted me with its etherial song when I walked my
beautiful dog, my God-send of a dog, my dog who is no longer with me, up to the
mountaintop where we lived at dusk every night. I know now from my internet
explorations that it was a Wood Thrush. I joined Audubon because my Dad, a
Peal Harbor veteran, still tormented by sunrise nightmares, a man so strangley
incapable of understanding people, but so patient in a way I never knew myself
that he seduced a Blue Heron into eating kitchen scraps from his hands every
night at sundown. My Dad unconsciously whistled the call of the Rufus Towhee
and for years I tried to spot that bird and never could
see it making that sound, my Dad's sound. It was one of you who pointed out
to me--finally.
All we have is words, really.
They aren't just numbers. They aren't just species. They are an experince
that only our words can bring to one another and to all the others, all the
many others who never SEE, never HEAR until someone opens their minds. I don't
want to see species destroyed the way a little piece of woods and farmland and
river and marsh was destroyed when I was just a kid. We just can't live on an
island anymore.
With all due respect and hope for a better place,
Kate
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