Thank God I am not a bird

"Thank God I am not a bird" is a short essay by Karl Jones.

Thank God I am not a bird

Man has three great dreams, great wishes.

One of them is the wish to fly — to take wing like a bird and soar through the heavens.

But I tell you, I just looked out my back door at 7:15 am — the air is sharp with cold, my breath is foggy in the early light — and when I see four birds sitting on an overhead wire, I think:

Thank God I am not a bird.

Then I go inside and drink more hot coffee.

In the News

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  What a piece of work are birds! How noble in saturation, how infinite in hue! In spectral absorption and reflection how express and admirable ... the beauty of the air ... the paragon of visual stimuli!

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• What a piece of work are birds

External links

• Post @ Facebook (1 April 2021)