The Kindness of Birds

An oriole sings to a dying father.
A bleeding-heart dove saves the day.
A crow wakes a womans resolve.
Owls help a boy endure isolation.
Cockatoos attend the laying of the dead.

Always there are birds in these linked stories that pay homage to kindness and the kinship among women and the planet.

From Australia to the Philippines, across cultures and species. When we encounter that snag in the breath, that shadow of a wing, we hope to remember kindness.

Kindness cannot self-isolate. It moves both ways and all ways, like breath.