a cygnet’s lament
migration season fills the air, a shared heart pounding, calling. i will not go again this year. like every year before it. i wish only that i could fly. fulfil my nature’s calling. my feet are rooted...
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Exploring your kintype with sumi-e
The other day, I went shopping for antiques with a friend, because I wanted a small item for photography and I thought I could find it at the antique mall. It’s always a very mixed experience, going...
View ArticleWhat kind of swan? : A swan maiden bestiary
The swan maiden is a familiar story all around the world. But, I have never heard anyone ask, “what kind of swan maiden?” There are many different kinds of swan, and so, it’s possible to imagine, there...
View ArticleWhite Paper
White paper shape, folded, wings tucked into the space between wings, perfect and neat like a flower, waiting to curl open. White paper boat, sailing on dark water, the moon shines on you lighting you...
View ArticleAn injured bird hides
Being therian is a learning experience that lasts your whole life. I guess that any identity is, but it’s even more interesting, maybe, when you are raised as one thing, and you are something else...
View Articlethings i will do when i become a swan
one, i will fly. of course, it’s the natural answer but there is more to bird than flight even if flight is much of it. two, i will look out of black eyes that see the world in a different way. i will...
View ArticleOn the Marriage of Friends, by Greg Delanty
So you have chosen the way of the swan; the way, perhaps, that is not natural to everyone, but I will not harp on about heron, bluebird or dotterel, nor how the male flycatcher pairs with two females,...
View ArticlePeople of a Feather: A new documentary
People of a Feather is a new documentary that is just now released, about the complicated relationship between the Inuit people and the eider duck. It has won a number of awards, and it currently being...
View ArticleHeron story
I saw a heron earlier today, at the river on the trail. Herons are not rare, but it was nice because this is the second different species of heron I’ve seen in the exact same spot, so it’s good to know...
View ArticleThe purity myth and the liminal mute
I’m always amused when people talk about swans as “pure”. If you were talking about the trumpeter swan, or tundra swan, who live in remote Arctic areas and mostly eat rice, then maybe you would have a...
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