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March: Spring obligations!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Just come home, I remembered a bustle on my terrace of my duties there be spring!

A tiny sparrow apricot large, is struggling through a bamboo blind to build a nest - an exciting, urgent business, and touching, because almost all of the dry leaves and twigs fall in stormy wind from too narrow a bamboo cane down again, what the Baueifer sparrow not at all may interfere. It continues, flapping wings to blow for hours. Where does this guy that fills hardly a hand, this energy? A schmetterndes, triumphant chirping tells of his unremitting, significant actions.

I flick my annals - and indeed, the spring, it was only yesterday: (more ...)

Against the Grain: The real gunman

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

If the media roller rolls again, I take always happy to brush.

A common direction for me has something threatening, and I imagine it figuratively a bison herd before, the drums on the prairie diversity of opinion; in the distance, perhaps lurks an abyss, which the excited herd animals no longer perceive the drums, snorting and stomping of conspecifics is simply overpowering and drowned out any warning signals. The clouds of steam, smoke from the nostrils and ears of snorting media armada make, deaf and block the receptors of the olfactory bulb in order to perceive the stench of actual scandals.

When I feel that something should be scandalized and someone will trigger certain emotions in me like a Pavlovian dog saliva, then I block, something goes against the grain, and then I brush up against the grain. I would hardly have believed that I would have to write something about guns and gun laws, I am surprised to themselves.

My childhood was marked by strict pacifism my parents, u .a itself. in a comprehensive ban on weapons in our children practically expressed. The reason for the ban was acting under painted and staged and so understood by us children: because our parents had both lived through the war. Both knew shoot what and bomb was, and I can only do write because my mother was on that day that her house was wiped out by a direct hit in the basement of the house next door to assist with her mother and her siblings a neighbor, whether the permanent air strikes threatened to lose his mind. (more ...)

Wild Geese (days Buchau tear)

Saturday, February 28, 2009

26 / 27th February ... uniform days with little depth, because I did not permit this at the moment. It is for this very often during the day until the evening twilight into the air:

A characteristic hoarse cries and a distant noise force me to feel attracted, in the most unlikely places to keep an abrupt stop and stare upwards, because it is a spectacle in the sky stage to see free admission: The return of migratory birds, wild geese and cranes ,

Apparently the area of ​​Bonn on the Rhine is a strategic, because train on train crossed the Rhine since yesterday and moved to the northwest. Fancy; Order and harmony maintained in constant motion and change alive. I am beaming in the last goose flight of the right wedge and fly with it behind my front goose. (more ...)

The Ballad of the heifer

Monday, February 23, 2009

My favorite hero of reality is at present a heifer:

They had fled shortly after Christmas in front of a butcher in Kreuth from cattle truck and ran into the freedom in the mountains high up into the Wallenberg setting Mountain range, far away. There she lived for weeks at minus fifteen degrees, day after day.

At a feeding station for deer in 1200 meters altitude, they pilfered hay. At first, she does not quite, eyeing the stags and hinds very shy. Then they look for water and skin with her hoof a small hole in the ice of a frozen fountain in front of a Holzknechthütte to drink can.

You can not be captured and only at night and new moon it descends to Kreuther forester's house and deposited there a heifer cake and then returns to the mountain in the deer woods.

At the deer feed racks it mixes very slowly with the pack and requires from the top dogs of respect, because the Sixteen final note: they do not have to do it with an ordinary, but with a very special heifer, and then enter the devotees silently to the side, when the heifer claimed a hay bale for themselves. The mighty deer they look shy and tend reverently their antlers and make room for her. (more ...)