some fragments of a fragmented day:

a red-headed woodpecker and four roseate spoonbills appear at the same moment and direction.

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They would put an eagle in a box and expect it to show them how to fly.

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from a letter from the April 1998 issue of Smithsonian:

Gerald Dumas wrote that while drinking beer at 2 A.M. and reading Mark Twain, he "came to a page that said, 'Last night I was still up at 2 A.M., drinking beer and reading Dumas.'" ...

Ken Chowder
Oakland, California

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how is it that a small bird goes from the ground to the top of a six-foot fence in a direct vertical line without flapping its wings or hopping?

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Cy Twombly wrote on his painting: 'Wilder shores of love'

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painting a picture of a cardinal that turned out not really to be a cardinal, and sketching scribbles that turned out not to be really scribbles

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the 'aha!' of remembering the movie 'Cool Runnings'

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learning from a familiar stranger how to rent a movie from a booth outside a pharmacy

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the joy of sandwich cookies, and your dad's four-day-old curly fries

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to buy two bowls and come out with a foot-long ribbon of receipt

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pouring milk into the earth