The egg’s-a-shakin’ (if you look closely)! This baby cardinal wants out! I took this video yesterday morning, and it was doing this ALL DAY, and I still don’t think he’s hatched yet. It’s crazy that birds sort of have to give birth to themselves. Born fightin’.
Dear Diary
sarah.achtemeier@gmail.com
Austin, TX
Artist
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The Byrds - Gunga Din (From my favorite album of theirs, The Ballad of Easy Rider)
The three best parts of my day:
- Listening to it pour down rain with the front door wide open, dancing in the living room to Gunga Din by the Byrds. Have breakfast with me, Mama.
- Running into a huge installation of high school artwork at the Asheville mall and having to pick my chin up off the Sbarro-stained carpet because I was so in awe of their talent.
- During the rainstorm, I thought it would be a good idea to put a towel over the bush outside that houses the newest family of Cardinals on the block in order to keep them dry. In the process, I scared the mama out of her nest. I watched for about 5 more minutes, while the mom and the dad would fly closer and closer, bit by bit, chirping to each other trying to figure out whether or not a purple towel was a predator, and wondering if their freshly-hatched chicklet was safe. Eventually, I realized I had done more harm than good, so I took the towel off and then watched the mother fly back to the nest.
I think we have a lot more in common with those birds than we realize. We’re all part of the same tribe. We just wear different costumes.
Happy Mother’s Day!
-From the soon-to-be Mama Cardinal in our front yard
Here’s the trailer for PIONEER, a short film by David Lowery starring Will ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’ Oldham and Myles Brooks (the cutest little black boy you’ve ever seen).
The plot: A father tells his son the most epic bedtime story ever.
Can’t waaaaaait!
Frank Fairfield is 100% alien. That’s the only explanation for how amazing he was to see perform.
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Staple Singers
View from the top of Lookout Mountain - Montreat, NC
Montreat, NC (About 15 mins. outside Asheville, where we’re staying til we find a place in the city)
Well, I’m moving to Asheville, NC tomorrow.
Honestly, the hardest people to leave are the ones I work with. I can rest assured that I’ll see my friends again. But with the nursing home residents I work with through the Mobile Art Program, it’s pretty unlikely. They came into my life at the end of their lives. Which is totally devastating, but also a comforting reminder that nature is in control. That’s why I wanted to move to the mountains in the first place…. to not simply stumble upon a patch of grass here and there, but to be totally bombarded with in-your-face reminders that we are just small humans. Nature should be overwhelming. All day. Everyday.
…That was a tangent.
These people. These beautiful, old, wrinkled, dependent, patience-testing people have taught me more about myself and what I want to be like in this life than anyone or anything I have ever encountered.
On my last day at my favorite nursing home, the residents presented me with a book of their work and well-wishes. Doris told me, “Now we can tell you all day how much you mean to us, but if you just look at those paintings, they say it all. You’ll be able to tell just by lookin’ at them.”
Thank you for all the love you’ve given me, Texas.
Now I’m gonna go spread it in Carolina.
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