This blog is about seeing the beauty in small things.
Like this afternoon.
I was home sick. It was snowing. I was trying to read an article on rural broadband and figure out what to do next. I had the tv on in the background. People were banging on about trillions of dollars and toxic debts and the death of Jade Goody. Then the door opened and it was Himself home for a nap until he had to go out and plough snow all night.
We sat on the couch for a while. Then I looked up and out the window and saw a deer's ass in the corner of the yard. We got up to investigate.
A young doe had her head all screwed up and her tongue in the slit at the bottom of the bird feeder and she was just a hoovering out the seed. I tapped on the window. She looked at me and tensed just a little.
Then I swear she gave a little shrug before she recommenced her hoovering.
Sometimes it's difficult to see the beauty in small things when the world is shouting at you about the big things.
And you can't see the point in fucking people, as Mrs. Monkey would say.
And it won't stop snowing.
There's nothing like an animal to make you see the pointlessness of the human race.
I should get a dog.
To remind me of my place in the world.
I'm going to call him Bunk when I get him.
This is for Mrs. Monkey....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wmgghlEagA
3 comments:
that deer story is great. I have heard of unintended beneficiaries of bird feeders, but in this country they are usually rats or squirrels. At least you didn't get... a bear.
We get deer in our neighbourhood quite frequently and they raid not just the bird feeder but the flower beds as well. I say it's a small price to pay. My dog, on the other hand, yells at them to get off our lawn.
sorry, I got lost at the Jade Goody comment. Is that on the news in CANADA???
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