Oly Friends of Herons Update
Loosh says we (I'm included out of coutesy as all I did was throw blog bits together) might've managed to do something good with the Oly Friends of Herons blog that was begun in response to the proposed development of property containing Great Blue Heron nesting trees. She says a lawyer who is building a "green" house and cares about environmental issues "put an option to buy on the property that the driveway to the development would need to run through, which is where the herons live. So the web site did something, maybe momentous. Thus late in life, we've actually saved a heronry. Hoorah for us." <-- somewhat glum-sounding hoorah.

Her new book comes out in March. The cover picture was painted by an elephant. /me runs around and finds poems made by elephants. Typical of our my email conversations, I sent her a link to an obituary for a woman who had lived in an iron lung as once, ten years ago perhaps, we had had a conversation about iron lungs. Actually it was a conversation sparked by that documentary (Breathing Lessons) about the poet who lived in an iron lung, I believe. She said, "Were we speaking of iron lungs?," which we had been, but not recently; I don't know why things like that stick in my head. Forever.