<div dir="ltr">thanks for reminding me that the San Francisco Bay Area has the most amazing numbers of hummingbirds. I am 54, lived in the Midwest much of my life. Until I moved to California two years ago, I am not sure I ever actually saw a hummingbird even though my backyard when, in the early eighties, I lived in Omaha, Nebraska had a hummingbird feeder. My daughter and I never saw a hummingbird. To tell you the truth, I began to doubt their existence. We faithfully kept food out, the food disappeared. . . . but we kinda lost faith.<br>
<br>Here in Northern California, I see them, like, ALL the time. They come up close to me. They really do hum. Also, they sparkle and shimmer, don't they? Such amazing beings.<br><br>But. . . aren't all beings amazing?!!!!<br>
<br>Whew, I am so relieved to know Finn's bear has been saved.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Alan Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alanmstewart@gmail.com">alanmstewart@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>My wife Carmen has a 'thing' about humming birds too. She will go into absolute ecstacy when I relate my seeing of their doing at the Presidio ...</div>
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<div>With love</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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<div><div class="Ih2E3d"><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/31/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Phelim McDermott</b> <<a href="mailto:phelim@mac.com" target="_blank">phelim@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>The last thing my girlfriend Matilda and and I saw at Wosonos in SF straight after the closing circle was a Beautiful hummingbird doing it's nectar thing.. (She had never seen one before) and squirrels.. well don't start her on squirrel activity!!</div>
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</div><div>Phelimx
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<div>On 31 Jul 2008, at 09:21, Ralph Copleman wrote:</div><br>
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<div><i>On groundhogs and fireflies...</i></div>
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<div>My wife and I once spent a delightful afternoon in the San Francisco zoo. Clearly their animal collection is incomplete.</div>
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<div>And I once passed an entire OT symposium as a self-described butterfly, sitting in the hotel lobby with my laptop working on a poem that I eventually shared during the closing circle. During all those butterfly hours, all sorts of people fluttered by for short visits, some of them more than two or three times, and I found that people I had known for years at these annual OS events -- well I didn't really know them at all, and at least one life-long friendship then developed. That week I came to deeply respect the concept of butterfly-ness, something I hadn't really taken seriously until then.</div>
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<div>In New York City, at an OS event I once facilitated, a participant came up to me and said I needed to add another insect metaphor. Butterflies and bumblebees were too soft. New Yorkers love their sharp, colorful, rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners, style of dialogue, and many in that often quirky big city relish sarcasm. This woman suggested I add hornets to the lexicon, because they have more sting. I haven't, but I remembered the idea. And personally, the more I think of it, the more I want to try out the groundhog thing. Or the firefly. Perhaps a cricket, or a hummingbird, or a flying squirrel...</div>
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<div>I wish I'd been there with you.</div>
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<div>Ralph</div>
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