sometimes you need to remind yourself, to be yourself, and perhaps that is getting back to an old habit, a good one, in this case, just sitting out on my porch, unplugging the old noggin, amputating the phone from my hand, and just listening to the world around me, carving out a 10 minute or so chunk of time I would have wasted otherwise to pay more attention to the fishbowl than usual…
I should know every bird and call by now… shouldn’t I? I have lived here most of my life, haven’t I? Surely, the players have not really changed all that much, cardinals, robins, etc. I should know them all by sight and voice by now, but I must confess, I don’t, which hits me as oddly strange and almost hard to believe, there are so many subjects on which I am not verse, the chapters are all right there in front of me, daily
I have had a new visitor lately, a kitten, or something in-between, not totally skittish but just sits there and looks at me, and I thee, I leave food out on occasion, like fish skins and such leftover from dinner, for sometime I have been convinced it was one of the little foxes from last summer, but now I think I know better, either way why throw out food that something will be delighted to eat, I mean, I do put out bird seed in a feeder, for the squirrels mostly, but I can’t help that, I’ve tried the gadgets and such… but the squirrels always seem to get some, but I don’t mind really, as long as the birds have some, and they do.
I think I need to sit out more and just observe as I used to do, more often, it really is relaxing/grounding, even in the packed ‘burbs of New Jersey (we are the most populous state by density – yeah, and there is a huge portion with no people! (the pine barrens aka home of the Jersey Devil… but that is a story for another day…)

notes… since I actually penned this I am up to 4 visiting kittens now outside my door (well, in the back yard really)… and also Taylor D is a master of ambient… he has done so much for decades now…check him out if you like the genre… you never know where my blog will go, neither do I. why? because it is simply a passion hobby not a focus, so when I disappear for awhile I am out in the real world, then I come back here and sling some things… if you get it… you get it… thanks for all the eyes.