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The end of Lent: when all you have has run out

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

I cannot do it. Cannot keep up with the hunger. I cannot feed them all. The bird feeder swings empty again in the harsh winds of March, and those who have not f...

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Build with Kindness

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 1 Comment

Out in the roar of March’s winter prowl, it is still too cold for the sparrow to think of nesting. This is the tempestuous tugging between winter and spring, an...

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Swan Joy

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

Joy is a longing,a passageway with the white wingbeat of swans overhead,and the silent current of a spring river beneath.You cannot live in water or air, and ye...

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The return of the birds

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 3 Comments

The blue jays arrived first. They still startle me with their plumage. I didn’t grow up with blue jays, and they’ve always seemed rather foreign to ...

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Lent Is For the Birds

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

Winter is truly here with a respectable -22 C morning. The snow is crunchy and crystalline, and the river shivers under its growing skin. Life stirs house by ho...