Merle,
I study them from life because I paint them. I don't know why I do this. And
I'm new at both things, so I don't know how long either thing will last. I
love knowing their lovely names, and I love reciting their names. Like
reciting the names of the stars at night.
I hope you know many of your stars in the South. I fell in love with them, and
some of the fine folks under them, in the 1980s.
We're one with the birds, and they with us. We all enjoy the freedom of the
great Liberation, and the great Participation.
If I go away from them and don't look, can I really go far enough and not be
one with them?
When I was a small child I once held a wounded Sparrow and kissed it on its
head, and it bit me on the cheek.
You already know my liking of mister Issa's haiku:
THE BABY SPARROWS
The baby sparrows;
if you're kind to them,
they'll poop on you.
--Joe
PS I think only good marksmanship "destroys a bird's freedom to be". (I do my
shooting with a Nikon, though).
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> joe..
>
> the bird is free..
> never chain the bird..
> in so doing we chain ourselves....
> i am not a bird watcher as such..
>
> even watching birds do we destroy their freedom to be?..
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