Thursday, with grackles, messages in bottles, and books

Grackles chat to one another like rusty metal door hinges. A few were playing out back the other day, and I took their picture from the window. They're in a story of mine, but looking more humanlike than birdlike.





And looking more humanlike than birdlike reminds me of a line from one of the two things I'm actively reading right now, Coyote Still Going, a really chatty, fun collection of Native American stories and reminiscences by Ty Nolan, a Native American storyteller. He says, about animal...