Clay Evan’s piece, Sunday June 12, Father’s Day, had me in tears. My husband I had also been watching a nest of robins – four chicks— encamped under our deck, each day going out to check on them. And each day, of course, they got bigger and bigger. I have a hammock near the nest and if I was patient enough, quite enough, the mother robin would return with a worm to feed them. The chicks either sensed or heard her coming and would start chirping in unison – “ME, ME, FEED ME”, they cried. The chick cacophony could easily be a ring tone. Perhaps, there’s already an app for that. Yet, this signature sound was short-lived as the chicks were fledglings for only two weeks and then “flew the coop”.
A shared experience and rite of spring. But, it was Mr. Evan’s analogy of fledgling chicks to his own stepson that really hit me. And reminded me of our own two boys – one who is mid-way through college and the other just graduated, temporarily returned to the nest, and starting to try out his own wings in this uncertain world.
Thank you Mr. Evans for your eloquent words praising all, robins and human parents alike, who rear, tend, love and care for the next generation.
Cynthia Shaffer
Boulder
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