I live in Fairlee, right in the CT River valley, adjacent to a large open field next to Hodge's. Every winter at some point I see at least a small flock of snow buntings in the field next to my place, but today there's a flock of over 200. A group of about 15 broke off from the larger flock and came right up to the back of my house and were underneath the feeders(!) for a few minutes. That's a first in my 21 years here, especially to see them less than ten feet from my kitchen window. What gorgeous birds.
Mark Council
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It's not
by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is actually an
empty hole through which the world becomes known to us. Likewise, in a
spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we see
everything. It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil,
for it is only when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that
we become truly teachable. -Mark Nepo