Heart with song

January 15, 2020 / Tracy Abell

December 16, 2019

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
~ John Burroughs

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sandyjwhite

January 15, 2020 at 6:23 pm

Amen to that!

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- Tracy Abell
  
  January 16, 2020 at 6:03 pm
  
  Chubbly little robin.
  
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Barb

January 16, 2020 at 12:07 pm

Hoot!

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- Tracy Abell
  
  January 16, 2020 at 6:02 pm
  
  Whoo-whoo to you, too!
  
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Amy Butler Greenfield

January 17, 2020 at 2:51 am

“Heart with song” makes me think of you, Tracy. Thanks for all the ways you are working for a better future for everyone.

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- Tracy Abell
  
  January 17, 2020 at 10:16 am
  
  Oh, Amy. This made me teary. Thank you for being a constant source of light in this too-often mean ol’ world.
  
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