The traveling travesty

[cacophonesque]

This week in Utah, four thousand eared grebes crash landed in a Wal*Mart parking lot. They say that there was bad weather and that the birds were trying to make a night-time landing. In the vastness of night, the wet pavement looked like a lake. At 40 miles per hour, their glide would have been far more graceful had they hit water rather than

Comments

[zeitgeistic]

Those poor birds. :(

[michikatinski]

I hadn't heard about that. So awful. And you bring up so many important points about the abuse of so many creatures through our desire to be "festive." There must be better, more intentional ways of celebrating?

[shadowwolf13]

:(

[dblicher]

A chilling reminder. Thank you.

[jem0000000]

*offers hot tea*

I have a re-usable fake tree and avoid tinsel... but I am guilty of buying imported plastic goods.

I think a lot of our holiday traditions at this time of year started out with death.