In Liberia, just before Christmas, cattle egrets would arrive on the Atlantic coast from their summer home near the Sahara. We called them Christmas Birds. The Christmas birds liked to roost in a big tree in the lagoon. It was said that at night, crocodiles would bump the tree and knock sleeping birds into the water and eat them.
Sudden joy that’s like a fish, a moving light, I thought I saw it
Sudden joy that’s like a fish, a moving light, I thought I saw it
When I was a kid living in Romeo, MI, my brother had a goat named Taffy. She strangled on a piece of bailing twine in the barn, and then they had her hide tanned. It was around our house, and I don’t know what eventually happened to it.
When I was a kid living in Romeo, MI, my brother had a goat named Taffy. She strangled on a piece of bailing twine in the barn, and then they had her hide tanned. It was around our house, and I don’t know what eventually happened to it.
