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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (31589)12/9/2012 10:53:16 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
"its always some Mary Ann with the shakey hand who keeps fiddling with the zoom button!"

:-)

Just tuned up my guitar while playing a tournament. Just one so everything is slow and easy. Everything is quiet and still here on a Sunday morning. Beautiful blue sky. No signs of alien craft. I considered coffee but decided to go for rum instead.

Squirrels are running along the fence and over the garage. Birds everywhere. My neighbour must spend a fortune feeding them. And I see the black cat just leaving out front. I don't think he sleeps. He patrols the neighbourhood and sometimes will leave some fresh mouse meat in the yard as a gift. Sometimes I wonder if he really is a cat? An angel, perhaps? Anyway--definitely a free spirit...

Sometimes in the middle of the night I will look out the picture window and our eyes meet. Then he turns and is gone. And I am reminded of that old poem by Rachel Field.

"as i went home on the old wood road
with my basket and lesson book
a deer came out of the tall trees
and down to drink at the brook

twilight was all about us
twilight and tree on tree
i looked straight into its great strange eyes
and the deer looked back at me

beautiful brown and unafraid ,
those eyes returned my stare
and something with neither sound nor name
passed between us there

something i shall not forget
still and shy and wise
in the dimness of the woods
from a pair of gold specked eyes"