The Telling Bird

"pictolibya" by flickr user crockhaus

Driving home from work today, NPR was on with some perspective on the revolutions in the Middle East, shedding some light onto differing perspectives of the involvement of Westerners, and I was more or less lost in thought. Out of the blue, I saw a bird fly in front of the car I was following from the left. I did not see the bird fly away to the right. My initial laughter was halted when I applied it as a metaphor to what I was hearing on the radio.

A part of me wants to be in the Peace Corps, on the ground in Libya right now.