Occasionally, it's cool to take time and write a piece that looks at the very basics of human interaction. Here's a little piece I wrote at the citizen journalism site Oh My News. I wanted to share it.
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He has five bird feeders and the customers to the farm reportedly marvel at the tiny creatures as they feed, hum and dance with each other in bird combat while attempting to gain the attention of a mate. He had done research and found that the tiny creatures spend part of their lives in this part of Central Alabama but as fall and winter approach, flap their tiny wings and fly thousands of miles across the Gulf of Mexico to another land only to return the next spring and summer to this newly established sanctuary of humming.
The birds love the berries, as they will the new crop of figs, too.
It goes without saying, that in this world where we are constantly bombarded with the pains of life's challenges and the news of world events that seem so far beyond our control, that all around us are unreported and under discussed simplicities that are in fact, capsules of the beauty, the communication and the exchange of experiences that we as living beings are truly capable of.
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