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Quotes of the day:

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that. Oprah Winfrey

Now, I heard the owl a-callin’
Softly as the night was fallin’
With a question and I replied
But he’s gone across the borderline (Kate Wolf)

Early, very early this morning I heard an owl. I lay very still under my blankets and listened to the silence of the dawn creeping through the sky. And there it was, "Hoo, Hoo … Hoo." A deep haunting, dawning sound in the trees nearby. My soul reached out, energy flowing through every pore. After awhile a few moments later, I sat up and following the owl call, muffled way in the distance I heard another, "Hoo, Hoo … Hoo."

A conversation!

It brought back memories of a time fifteen or so years ago of a man who taught me all about birds. I remember him waking me early one morning. He put his hand on my arm gently and said softly, "Listen …" and together we lay very still, listening to the haunting, dawning sound of an owl hoo hooing in the trees nearby. I would not have missed that for all the world.

Moments in time. Each one precious, wondrous, amazing, connecting us with our inner selves, each other, the universe. As I write this, the owl has journeyed on. I do so hope she drops by again awaking memories of moments in time. Sooner perhaps than before.

Why, so much of me is made up of haunting, dawning memories of moments in time.

A year ago on Tamarika: Mostly By Association