A hawk crashed into our big window in the living room. We’ve had other, much smaller birds fly into the window bit this hawk rattled the house. We’re lucky it didn’t shatter the glass. The birds usually stand, stunned for a few minutes and then fly off. The hawk stood up, a bit dazed, and then moved toward a Red-bellied Woodpecker that was laying upside down near or house. The hawk stood there with one foot on the prey and after a few minutes it fly off with the woodpecker in its talons.
A few weeks back we saw the hind quarter of deer laying the road down near the marsh, fresh from nature’s butcher. So fresh there were no turkey vultures swarming. On our walk we came across the spinal column of a deer, completely stripped of its meat.
1 Comment“You can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else. But we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” — Stephen Miller
Your quote is spot on. While it’s nice to believe everyone is interested in an enlightened life, the reality is we are barely one foot out of the cave. More bricks at the bottom of the pyramid than at the top. And that primal ‘law of the jungle’ energy still calls the shots at the root level. Cavemen with car keys.