tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post3022498268850523230..comments2023-06-14T07:18:28.563-04:00Comments on tamarack writes: Nature Writing Entry #9Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post-87451868520635317172015-04-07T10:38:48.225-04:002015-04-07T10:38:48.225-04:00It kills me that I had some sort of witty comment ...It kills me that I had some sort of witty comment typed out here a week and a half ago and obviously never hit "Publish". The universe must be telling me that it wasn't too witty. Anyway, I've always gotten a kick out of seagulls. Rats with wings, and yet, how easy it is to see our society in their society.Laura Jackson Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012618988509450838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post-54574720063059238722015-04-05T18:35:58.990-04:002015-04-05T18:35:58.990-04:00I love your question:
"But something is miss...I love your question: <br />"But something is missing. I wonder how they can live as they do, so incredibly not nice. They scream in each other’s faces, push others away with a snap of the beak, and snatch food from the mouth of whoever’s swallowing. I saw one deliberately holding on to and pulling at another’s wing to… do what? I don’t know."<br /><br />I literally laughed out loud. I&Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268181317618410558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post-19509195927845573342015-04-03T14:00:02.518-04:002015-04-03T14:00:02.518-04:00"But something is missing. I wonder how they ..."But something is missing. I wonder how they can live as they do, so incredibly not nice." It's an interesting paradigm shift, isn't it? My first manuscript was about human evolution for kids (I promise it is cooler than it sounds). And trying to convey the not-nice-things that our ancestors did and had to do to survive is... well... very animalistic. <br />I love your Athena Gabriellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17478351799060201919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post-37580398846656459832015-04-01T15:54:05.942-04:002015-04-01T15:54:05.942-04:00Haha Andrea! That's funny. Your boys sounds lo...Haha Andrea! That's funny. Your boys sounds lovely ;) Yes, my stepdaughter is too old to harass my son. He's way more spunky, but she puts up with him nicely. Like a good big sister. Amanda K. Jaroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05789714847496839376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post-50236062966070980272015-04-01T14:41:06.503-04:002015-04-01T14:41:06.503-04:00Ha ha! Gulls are obnoxious, aren't they? But f...Ha ha! Gulls are obnoxious, aren't they? But fun to watch. There's fish ladder near us where we can watch the alewives migrate upstream and the gulls just sit there and dip the fish out of the water and you can see the fish still flopping after having been swallowed whole. It's amazing. Your description of the gulls screaming at and picking at each other sounds like my household-Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14748454816480995214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194988118111802379.post-54195255495918952182015-03-31T14:07:30.509-04:002015-03-31T14:07:30.509-04:00Funny. I swear I just remembered having read - and...Funny. I swear I just remembered having read - and loved - <i>Jonathan Livingston Seagull</i> a few days ago! We have a huge flock of gulls here along the New River, which strangely most often are found en masse in the Walmart parking lot. My kids have come to dislike them, for all the reasons you've described. But then I remembered that book and how it offers a completely different Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17952391713478473126noreply@blogger.com