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My brother keeps a flock of about 40 chickens in a small clearing in the
woods at his place in Brookfield. He usually has only about two or three
roosters who do a good job of standing guard for the ladies, and even
though their crowing must sound like a dinner bell to whatever predators
might be within earshot, there have been surprisingly few bloodbaths over
the years. A mangey fox late this summer managed to take a couple; aerial
assaults have been limited despite a nesting pair of goshawks a quarter of
a mile or so away. The big female managed a kill summer before last,
killing a free-ranging hen and frequenting the carcass on the ground for
five consecutive days.
Chickens generally aren’t known for their intelligence, but they do get the
smarts about big birds flying over them pretty quickly. This spring, a
returning turkey vulture took a fairly low flight over the pen, and at
least one of the roosters issued the alarm and thirty some hens tried to
make a hyper-hasty retreat through the tiny henhouse door at the same time.
My brother says it was the best laugh has had in a long time-
-- 
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


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