Day 10 - #WriteOut ... Didn't Have a Lot of Time to Appreciate the Outdoors But Did Catch a Bird or Two on My Roof (Perhaps they were searching for poetry, too)

Monday was a delicious day, not only because I got to hear Shonda Rhimes speak, (no scandal here), but because I'm part of a larger literary tradition in Southern Connecticut that makes bigger worlds possible. What a wonderful evening at The Westport Library to close off StoryFest.

I graded, did a dental appointment, planned for the week, and attended the last of the events (all while writing outside in a National Writing Project tradition). 

Birds of a feather, I suppose. We flock together, and we make meaning of it what we hope is a better way to live life. Appreciate the life that we have. 

Sometimes I Wonder, Too

Day 10 - WriteOut ’25

b.r. crandall

I’m a Louisville fan.

Why wouldn’t I be? 

Teaching at 1st & Muhammad Ali

all those years ago and loving urban

missions with volleyball nets 

and basketball hoops. 

The orange beaks aren’t bad, either, 

with a little blue, I am Syracuse, too,

transplanted into my southern Connecticut

way of life amongst Stags.

I wonder about the visit of a

female cardinal on my roof…

is she after the Chinese lantern 

flies, the yellow jackets, or the last-minute 

beetles feeding on the Morning Glories, 

or is just here, like me, 

wanting to find a way to 

survive, because that is 

what we’re destined to do?