intelligent; their dances are seriously famous! On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
The cranes are fantastic and enviable Alan! Ancient symbols of longevity. ____________________________________________________________________________ From: NetBehaviour <[email protected]> on behalf of Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 1:19 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: [NetBehaviour] sandhill cranes in mist sandhill cranes in mist http://www.alansondheim.org/crane1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/crane2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/crane.mp4 the surreal trip continues with rare moments of beauty, eleven to twelve thousand sandhill cranes gathered in farmers' fields in the mist in the almost dawn, japanese screens of almost dusk, new calls we never heard before. we were there a long time, remembering beauty, against the rumors of borders closing, older folk not allowed out, anger and hatreds on the fringe, incompetence from above. we learned that there will be three- to five-hundred- thousand cranes gathering from the south, that nebraska is the only state that protects them. but there they were, so much wisdom. the rumors abound and we do our best as we travel, now in aurora, colorado, to ward off fear, our own anxiety generators at variance with just about everything. sleepless nights, even when the cranes are flying, even when their calls of communality come forth. they hint at an earlier earth, before anyone human was present, as if a primordial humanism had nothing to do with us. not nature red in tooth or claw or anything at all, but so many biomes, so many surviving in the midst, in the mist, here and now, in the fields. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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