Pileated Puer with First Responder and Fallen Hawk
Themes from the Persian tale “The Conference of the Birds” about the long journey to God, of Orpheus playing his lyre and singing so sweetly that birds and animals gather around, the delightful Bird Catcher song in Mozart’s Magic Flute and my whimsical fantasy of Carl Jung as Orpheus wearing a pileus hat on his way to school at age eleven converge in this ecological lament. All touch my lifelong love of birds and all Nature but are painfully endangered by polar melt, ignorance and the toxic spew of our madly monetized global consumer culture.
