The world is a mask that hides the real world.
Thatâs what everybody suspects, though the world we see wonât let us dwell on it long.
The world has ways - more masks - of getting our attention.
The suspicion sneaks in now and again, between the cracks of everyday existenceâ¦the bird song dips, rises, dips, trails off into blue sky silence before the note that would reveal the shape of a melody that, somehow, would tie everything together, on the verge of unmasking the hidden armature that frames this sky, this tree, this bird, this quivering green leaf, jewels in a crown.â¦
As the song dies, the secret withdraws.
The tree is a mask.
The sky is a mask.
The quivering green leaf is a mask.
The song is a mask.
The singing bird is a mask.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
medicated owl meditates on season's joys?
Owl discovered in Christmas tree found with marijuana in system
Posted: 12/15/2005 11:24 am
Last Updated: 12/15/2005 11:36 am
Sarasota, FL - Here's a holiday story you just won't believe.
A family found an owl in their Christmas tree, and the bird apparently had a little hooter in him.
A small screech owl was found in a live Christmas tree that a family bought.
They kept the tree for five days before they decided to decorate it.
When they did, they found the owl.
Animal control officers came to get the owl, and when they did, they made a shocking discovery!
"I kept smelling him and smelling him, saying 'What is that odor'. It was lying there as happy as can be,"says one animal control officer who was at the scene.
"Curiously enough, the owl's feathers smelled very, very potently like marijuana," says Animal Control Officer Dering. They examined the owl, looked at its eyes, big owl eyes, and the owl was, in the vernacular, stoned."
Blood tests confirmed the owl was flying high, on marijuana.
They checked him out, fed him and named him Cheech.
He'll be released in a few days.
