Speaking of birds, here’s “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver. Sometimes a poem can be useful…

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

– Mary Oliver

Take care and be safe.

- Heather

On Dec 22, 2021, at 5:40 AM, Ash Ponders <ashponders@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Everyone.

How’s it going?

I’m hanging out down here in Panama for the holidays. It’s honestly a bit sweaty. Not excatly Chris Cringle’s stomping grounds.

A bunch of my photos came out in Audubon magazine this week, so that’s kinda nice.

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2021/the-grand-dream-international-park-mexico-meets

If anyone has a copy, could you send me photos of the spread?

-ash ponders

On Wednesday, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:24, Maria Bustillos <maria@popula.com> wrote:

hey Joel

(Happy hols everyone, it's been so nice to see you for a moment!)

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 5:04 AM Joel Johnson <joeljohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
hey

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 7:46 AM <stack@tilde.club> wrote:
The point of a mailing list is to disseminate information.

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If you have nothing to say, keep it to yourselves.

Unsubscribing.