Anhinga
The snake bird.
Swims with his entire body submerged; just his neck and head out.
…and a neotropic cormorant.
The snake bird. Swims with his entire body submerged; just his neck and head out. …and a neotropic cormorant. Saturday
Maybe we should look at motorhomes again; something smaller than our 40 footer. Something simpler. This one just feels like so much more than we need now. We invested a couple hours with an RV dealer here in the Valley. We found we can get a brand new 33 foot Winnebago if we give them our bus plus $80,000. We decided to go to Santa Ana NWR and take a walk instead.
Friday the 13th
It must be our daughter’s birthday. She was born on Friday the thirteenth.
We sleep with the blinds closed
…but in the morning, slivers of light slip through. All winter long, when we wake up in the morning, we can judge the time by the angle of these rays along the north wall of the bedroom. Except this morning. We awoke to a blank slate. The wall was empty. The morning light was gone. I looked the other way. We haven’t reached the vernal equinox yet, but the morning sun has reached our south wall.
ISIS
We get headlines and videos with beheadings. ISIS overrunning villages; consolidating their evil empire. Bloodthirsty mindless killers. We have to change the channel every time a report comes on because they are so graphic. Yet “Lone Wolves” are inspired to acts of terror in western countries in the name of ISIS. Law enforcement agencies all over the world are engaged in preventing young people from traveling to the middle-east to join up with ISIS. WTF? I feel a disconnect. The picture we see is pure evil, yet some young people are drawn to it, volunteering to join ISIS; people that aren’t being conquered and absorbed, but people going to great lengths, at great risk, to join on purpose. Where does that come from? Can we dismiss anyone who doesn’t agree with our understanding as delusional? If we do that, what part of the picture are we missing?