Anything you can think of, and more!

That’s what you can find on the internet.  Just a few choice, wacky things I have learned today:

there are wild parrots in North America, and you can go on a safari to see them:

http://www.brooklynparrots.com/2007/01/special-double-header-wild-brooklyn.html 

next safari: July 14.  Since these are parrots who somehow escaped cage living,wouldn’t that be a cool thing to do on Bastille Day?

http://www.metaphorm.org/pages/portfolio/defenestration/defen.html 

“defenestration” is one of my favorite words. I wasn’t sure why until now.

“The simple, unpretentious beauty and humanity of these downtrodden objects is reawakened through the action of the piece. The act of “throwing out” becomes an uplifting gesture of release, inviting reflection on the spirit of the people we live with, the objects we encounter, and the places in which we live.”

I don’t know, maybe it is because of Independence Day and Bastille Day that I am fixated on escape.  Maybe also because the writing I am working on is also about escape.  And summer time is such an escape for me–I am fixated on Nimrod Hall and the Cowpasture River, screens in open windows, fans pulling in the cool night air… the countdown has begun for the writer weeks!