4.28.2006

Touched by Silly Things

No, you perverts... No. Read this article and your little bleak hearts will warm. Obviously for me this is particularly sweet in light of my flock. This morning MrNewburg (see previous post for picture) made first nice contact on his own. As I sat sipping my obnoxious morning yogurt frappe, Newbie scuttled down his cage and delicately moved to my shoulder. I pretended normalcy. He then undid my hair clip, (at which he is amazingly agile - rather like those guys who can unhook your bra by merely brushing their hand across your back), preened my left ear and straightened a few errant locks of hair. We communed for a few minutes and then he was back to his cage to ransack his new toy.

Obstinate animals that befriend us rekindle our ancestral/primitive instincts. And for a brief moment allow us to catch a glimpse of a simpler, less-polluted and more wholesome existence.

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