Tag: flying
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December 3, 2013
I keep thinking about this: on Sunday, I was out walking and a flock of sparrows (is there a name for a flock of sparrows?) came flying right at me. There must have been at least a hundred of them and right before it seemed like they were going to mow me down, they parted…
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June 30, 2011
(Acceptance speech from the Theodor Suess Geisel Award ceremony for Bink and Gollie): “I’m going to fly to the moon.” These are the first words I read on my own. The sentence is from Else Holmelund Minarik’s book Little Bear; and the words appear beneath an illustration by Maurice Sendak that shows Little Bear in…
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June 2, 2011
A few nights ago, I was standing underneath the skylight and happened to look up in time to see hundreds of bats flying above me. A colony, a cloud. That’s what a group of bats is called. But I thought of other words that I like better: a vamp of bats, a sonar of bats,…