26 December 05

Resolving

I’ve never much been one for New Year’s resolutions. They seem ineffective for most people and I don’t know why I’d be any different. Last week as I was pondering the solstice, though, I did come up with some things I’d like to do differently before the next one. These aren’t the normal “lose weight read more exercise regularly get fully prepared for disaster” variety, all of which would certainly be a good idea, but things like “Sing on the bike more. Learn spencerian. See the flammulated owl.”

May you sing on your bikes more or whatever your equivalent is! And may the flammulated owl look at you with its deep black eyes and speak to you of peace in the still places of the forest.

Posted by at 08:15 PM in Miscellaneous | Link |
  1. Wow—”flammulated”—! I resolve to find out what that means sometime this year. (Surely not singed?)
    — Doc Rock    27. December 2005, 11:53    Link
  2. One of the side-dish pleasures of birding is getting to use words like

    flammulated
    ferruginous
    glaucous
    boreal
    pileated
    semipalmated
    pelagic
    hepatic
    vesper
    dusky
    pectoral
    plumbeous
    prothonotary
    rufous
    cerulean
    sedge
    vermilion
    berylline
    and even
    lazuli

    and those are just part of the birds’ names.

    I’m still having trouble with “bristle-thighed” and “flesh-footed” though, not to mention “sharp-shinned.”
    — Ron Sullivan    29. December 2005, 22:45    Link

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