| | After nearly two years of blogging almost every weekday on xanga with little exception, it is time to move on.
Xanga has been good to me. It has allowed me to realize that this blogging thing really is all it's cracked up to be. And, what's more, it's kind of what I want to do with my life.
All week, while Chad and I have spent long hours working on the new blog (Chad much more than I), I've been trying to think of a metaphor for this momentous occasion. But I've been coming up short.
Then, the other day, when walking up to my front door after work, I heard multiple tiny peeps coming from above my head. In the corner under an awning, barely visible, was a nest. The eggs must have just hatched. I stood there for a while and marveled about what a brilliant spot it was for the mother bird to build a nest. It was sheltered from rain, wind, and even view, unless one looked very hard. The only entrance to the nest was a tiny space between the bottom of the awning and the top of the support beam, just small enough for a mother bird to fit through. I sighed, and then I went inside. Nothing represents good change like tiny, well protected baby birds born immediately after the arrival of spring.
And then last night when Ryan came over to watch America's Next Top Model with me, he told me to come outside and look at something he found. There, on the ground, was one of the baby birds. Its body was completely see-through, all of its internal organs a jumbled blue mass inside its bulging belly. It was badly hurt. The fall it took from the nest would have been the equivalent of a human jumping off the roof of a 120-story building. I ran back inside and asked Ryan to take care of it and not tell me anything. Nothing is more tragic than a baby bird just a few days old falling from its nest.
This morning when I walked outside, the baby bird was gone (bless Ryan), and there was one solitary peep still coming from the nest above, strong, unaffected, and needy, embodying all the possibilities that are still to come.
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Come visit me from now on at www.writesofspring.com.
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