wow. i think i needed a drink, or a night to chill. clouds have passed, i'm groggy but cheerful. seeking now forgiveness from those whom i have made miserable. raining on them all the time.

some bird trivia: the ostrich apparently lays the biggest egg of any living creature (weighing in at 3.3 lbs). it is also the largest single celled organism that currentlly exists on our planet. supposedly there were dinosaurs that laid bigger eggs, but not by much, and anyway, they were dinosaurs. back in the day i learned that the ostrich egg was considered a symbol for the virgin birth, as it opened via the warmth of the sunlight, i.e. the light of god. there's some piece of renaissance italian art that depicts an ostrich egg on a string. which for some reason is very beautiful to me. although i expect that the baby ostrich would have met the world with an unhappy thump if the artist was working from live models.