a little piece of a poem

"Precisely to the degree that you have loved something:  a house, a woman, a bird, this tree, anything at all, you are punished by time."  John Engels

and that just one of the at least ten reasons why things Aren't As Bad As They Used to Be.  Egrets.  There never used to be egrets all over the place--but now (if you know where to look) there are egrets all over the place.  I need to remind myself of these things when I get panicky about the State of Things.  Also deer.