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November 18, 2023

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Good morning!

It’s our last Saturday in Paris, and the Jardin des Plantes is almost done setting up its Evening Lights Festival for the holidays. We took a stroll through the display a few days ago (in the rain, of course) to admire the enormous colorful statues of various animals and their habitats. As I was lamenting how we’d miss seeing everything lit up, a crow hopped down from a tree statue where he’d been observing us.

“Good afternoon,” he said in a very charming French crow accent. “My compatriots in Maine have asked me to check up on you.”

Before I could reply, he went on, “…and to tell you that the sunflower seed is running low.”

“Ahh,” I said.

He cleared his crow throat. “I think you understand what this means.”

I nodded, and I asked him to reassure his compatriots that, very soon, their cup would once again runneth over.

He said that would do nicely—and with a crow salute, he flew off to inspect a gigantic blue spider statue across the way.

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”

—Gwendolyn Brooks

Onwards,

Clara

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Tamara
Nov 19Liked by Clara Parkes

Such a spectacular park. Gwendolyn Brooks' quote was so moving, and hopeful.

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Alicia Barr
Nov 18Liked by Clara Parkes

Fantastique❣️And don’t you just love Gwendolyn Brooks?!

That crow is such a deep dark black, it looks like velvet!

A lovely last Saturday❣️

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