“This landscape consists of Pablo Casals' cello and four turkey vultures riding the ribbon of warm air rising from the highway. Concrete forms for abstractions my mind can only grope at: the wings and blood, the blue and black and float and soar, the aching beauty.” MarriageSelf RealizationRestlessnessMidlifeBirding Book:The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration Source: The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration