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Just Fly

Just Fly
by Mike Davis

Padding along the trail,
We ambled toward the car,
Dog’s nose pressed to ground,
Human noses pressed forward,
Next stop, the car.
My mind focused on that next thing.

Then, the screech of a red-tailed hawk,
My eyes peered around me.
Where does that clear,
Piercing, cry come from?
And there, off to the right
Riding the air currents
Along the length of the creekbed

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Deep Dive: PTSD; nature; wanting; meditation; COVID impact; expensive cars

Author: Michael Davis, Th.M., BCC, CWMF

Summary: Nurses protest use of AI; the importance of personal and cultural reconsideration on the importance of sleep; prosecution of medical errors; and Zionism and the Passover. Read more...

On propagation

Around April of each year, I order praying mantis egg pods, also called an ootheca.

About a month to eight weeks after their arrival around a hundred and fifty baby praying mantises are ready, chipper, and anxious to get out into the garden. It’s one of the happiest days of my year: baby release day.

But, I rarely see them after that. Then last week, Barb saw one on a decorative light out front.

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