A fleeting shadow.
My head immediately snapped up from monitor-focused typing. What I saw as the dawn silently filtered through a blinds-closed window-frame forced legs to action while hands grabbed a cell-phone-camera. I was desperate to capture this image.
An eternity (nearly 5 minutes) in wait produced no repeat performance. This window of opportunity is lost to the shadows, to write full of pun.
I made an attempt at manipulative invitation thinking that if I placed a few bread crumbs on the outside windowsill, I could duplicate the image. Offering the enticement of food is effective in a lot of our interactions, right?
This short video is the only reproduction relevant to the imagery that held me captive a few moments earlier. It's clearly not the share I'd like to promote.
Just yesterday, I was thinking about the reasons that I write while lamenting a bit about the situation we find ourselves in this year. It was much easier to discover 'stories' that created God-awareness when I was actually moving around in the world.
But today, the world came to me in the form of an opaque bird. I have no idea what kind of bird nor do I know if it likes bread crumbs but at least it returned to explore. A 'fleeting' image is all you'll see but my disruption this morning was due to a full wing-span produced shadow that took my breath away.
