July 21, 2025
There's the norm, Paulie.  First time I've been up in a week.   Grass is growing on the side where the sun hits it most of the day.   

I haven't been to CARE Center in many years.  I was trying to remember how long it had been.  I'm not sure I've been there since I stopped doing The New Word in about 1993.  That was a long time ago and at least two professional tracts ago.  It always was one of my favorite places.  It does really good work.   


Met a woman who was probably in her 40's who had finished the CARE/Bard degree program in 2018.  She's working there now.  She shared some of her photos with me and we talked about cool stuff that is happening.   She knew nothing about Bard Circus.  She was really interested.  



Met Clara for a quesadilla and we blabbed for 2 hours.  Nice visit.  I love the fact that C.L. feels like home to us.   A place to be comfortable, I need those places.   


Ran up to the the rookery afterwards.  It was 8 and 66 and clear, low humidity, few birds, but very quiet and still.   

There was some red glow on the horizon, but very little for sunset.  Saw two very pretty deer.  Not a very eventful ride, but I'd already driven to and from Holyoke and that was eventful enough. 

Kingfishers are feeding on the far end

Geese have a more open home

as green grass covers the new line of mud. 

We see the pond floor

The old stalks

Piles of old tree limbs, logs dried out

Swallows drift atop small shallow pools

God knows where the fish have gone

And what is left for food for whom.

 

Dog barks

Yellow vireo 

The golden glow reflected in the east

A silence 

A missing of a life system 

A change in a biosphere 

is witnessed, digested

held in awe.






 

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