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Today's lesson: Making plans is just my way of reminding myself that I need to be flexible. I had plans today. It was supposed to be a simple day where I would write on this blog and sort some papers. Maybe I would make some bread if I had the time. I forgot though that other people had their plans too.This lesson is also there to remind me that being flexible also means admitting when you are tired, or when you have had quite enough of life thank you very much.

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Quick update on the rescues and volunteers. Bubbles, the younger. The young pigeon that was starving outside is growing and eating and throwing seed happily everywhere. She, we're pretty sure that's the gender, so maybe they is better for now. They are a sucker for bath time and flax seeds. Unlike my other pigeon, Biscuit, they also love toys and puzzles.

“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

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Go skiing they said. It will be fun they said. We rented boots. We rented skis and poles. I borrowed a friend's ski bibs. I already had a down ski jacket. Down is wonderful in the dry powder of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Lake Tahoe basin. It's not wonderful in the heavy wet snow of the early season snows in Feldberg, Germany.

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“In the foliageA kind token from a birdFeather in Fall’s grass”― Marie Helen Abramyan It was a beautiful bird. It had a bright green head, a white ring around it's neck and a huge tail with long striped golden brown feathers. The bird itself was the biggest bird she had ever seen and it was walking around in her backyard.

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dailyprompt-2146 There was an election coming. I had already seen the battle lines being drawn within families. But the media pushed the fight. They marketed it like it was the Heavy Weight Title match. There was merchandise to sell and there were parades to join and threats to downplay. The fighting expanded beyond the boundaries of the arena. It bled into the stands and the spectators began taking part in skirmishes against the other side.I retreated from nearly all my multi-decade friendships.