Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
One Woman's Quest II 
That Red-breasted Nuthatch looks grumpy at being photographed VJ 😀
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Likely is. Poor guy just wanted to have his meal in peace.
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Very handsome birds!
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They sure are! Thanks.
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You’re welcome!
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Such beautiful birds! Red-breasted Nuthatch would be a life bird for me. We have the brown-headed and white-breasted there. 🙂
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What do you know. We have a bird you haven’t seen, lol.
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It happens once in a while. LOL! There are a lot of birds out there I haven’t seen. I only have 351 species on my life list. I still have a lot of birds out there calling my name. hehehe! 🙂
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They have very pretty colors that your photos do justice to! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks Deborah!
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