Well done Susan...and an interesting history lesson too !
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> From: "Spannaus, Susan C." <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: "Spannaus, Susan C." <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 23:31:12 +0000
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [mou-net] The Swan -12-17-2016
>
> The Holiday Swan
>
> The swan spent time on the lake it had been spotted this year all the way back
> to April and it is now December
> People walking the lake would see the swan floating out on the lake in the
> company of Mallards, Grebes, and other waterfowl.
> The stories were told about the swan, how large and black it was a rare
> sighting in this part of the land.
> Speculations, discussions, and disputes as to its
> roots....indigenous.....no...oh it's from Australia but what would it be doing
> here
> In this cold part of the world...alone....must be a domestic that
> escaped...and the talks went on and on and you could hear people's chatter
> walking around the lake..
> The leaves turned and Fall had arrived with a chill in the air with a black
> swan content on the lake feeding and mingling with the other waterfowl
> that accepted it as one of their own.
> Speculations continued and wonders of when the black swan would move on it was
> getting chiller by the day and the swan continued to stay
> and feed and swim with the ducks.
> One day the snow came and the swan continued to stay, eating and swimming and
> then it was colder and the swan was colder and the talk went on
> from the lake walkers when will it go, maybe it can't fly, maybe it's sick...
> but no mind was set on the swan it had to be okay...
> Another day passed and there was more snow, had six or eight inches and ice
> was on the lake and the swan was looking sad and worn and swam
> away from the ducks to sit on the ice as it was cold and not feeling
> well...and people looked on and wondered what to do with this elusive black
> swan on the lake. It looked so cold, it wasn't eating or swimming, just
> sitting on the ice.
> People speculated how to get the swan, go out in a kayak, get a boat, get a
> group of people together to get it as swans are strong but this one looked
> weaker by the day. People continued to plan on how to capture the swan and the
> cold days of December continued on with a black swan on the ice.
>
> Today the enormous, beautiful, elusive black swan gave in to the cold, and the
> feathers enclosed in frost, did once last float on the lake and sunk below
> the water line to give up its life to the lake.
>
> When native American Indians knew they were at the end of their life they
> would go lie in a snowbank, it was two-fold as it ended any pain they were
> having
> and the numbness from the snow would put them into a peaceful rest and they
> would die....
>
> The Indians learned much from the swan and the respectful way to pass in
> peace.....
>
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