Tag: wildlife
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Winter Wanderlust…
For those of you who didn’t notice, or those who are uninformed, this news: Blue Monday is behind us for another year. Blue Monday is usually ‘celebrated’ on the third Monday in January as the most depressing day on the calendar Celebrated? That may not be the appropriate term: endured, maybe? Slept through? Survived? If…
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Tomchik’s Ornithology
Tomchik reaches for his bag, which sits between us on the bench. “I like it here,” he says. He produces a thermos flask from within the bag’s khaki canvas depths, and proffers it. I refuse. I am meant to refuse, he is hoping I will refuse, “Me, too.” I acknowledge, as he pours himself a…