“When the sun turns traitor cold / and all the trees are shivering in a naked row...,” by Joni Mitchell, from Urge For Going [March 28, 1966].
February is my restless month — BDog feels the same. We headed east…
Snow Geese wintered here, and will soon be winging north. We drove south…
Any day now, these Sandhill Cranes will feel spring’s northward pull…
Spring winds will also push geese and ducks of Bosque del Apache back north toward breeding grounds now covered in winter…
This is a song of migration…
As with birds, the human species is prone to epic journeys, though usually with vastly different impulses and drivers. For a fascinating read by a fine writer named Paul Salopek, click Walking the World for 10 Years, a Storyteller Ponders the Upsides of Nomadism in an Age of Drastic Change. Up next, a broader look at patterns and problems for bird migration in North America — Flyways in the Drying West. Until then, take care of yourself and help someone out along your way. - B.
Paul Salopek’s project, the Out of Eden Walk, just may expand your concepts of our own species, and of our planet.