This beautiful grackle lost his life somehow and fell right by my garden stone. He was so brilliantly beautiful in a macabre sort of way. I felt I had to record his death, and honor his graceful passing. My husband thought this photograph very strange and disturbing. I don't mind being odd chick, but I don't want to be strange and disturbing. So I leave it up to your comments about how this photograph affects your spirit. I feel stillness and peacefulness in the form in which he's fallen and that his current shining brilliance is only a vision of what his future holds. The Bible says that God knows when a sparrow falls so I know this death was recorded in the heavenlies.
But he didn't fall unnoticed in this place either.
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I love the passage and I love the photo! I am often reminded of that passage of scripture and usually find myself in tears over a dying or dead bird knowing that I am not alone in noticing it. I have a collection of dead insects, large carpenter bees, mostly. But I feel an obligation to honor their lives in some way, which also had a divine purpose.
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