Sunday, May 1, 2022

Walking in a winter wonderland

My wife, whose musical tastes no one with my musical tastes should presume to criticize, has a CD of a cappella Christmas songs, which she plays occasionally throughout the year. So it happened that today I started the car, turned on the CD player, and was greeted with:

Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay is a new bird

That really makes no sense in the song — if a “new bird” showed up in the winter, which generally doesn’t happen in temperate climes, it would be a seasonal migrant and not “here to stay” — but it synchronized nicely with what’s in the news these days.

4 comments:

Ra1119bee said...



William,

I deleted my previous comment as I made a typo..


I meant to write :

New Bird indeed...

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Meet the new bird, same as the old bird.

Craig Davis said...

Since we are on the subject of birds, and since we never know where the synchs will lead:

On my recent Wyoming excursion, in addition to our friend the snake eating raven, I also saw a bald eagle sitting on a telephone pole and a golden eagle sitting on a fence.

I can't be certain, but I suspect the golden eagle was singing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRBItQrlgNI

Ra1119bee said...



William,

'Touché.

Annunciation rescheduled to coincide with eclipse

I just saw this on Ann Barnhardt's blog : March 25th is the fixed date of the great Feast of the Annunciation… BUT since March 25th fall...