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.

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.