When animals talk
to themselves they say
only sensible things:
the noun of threat
or safety the noun
of wind of sun of rain of
snow of shelter and
rest and warmth and
many good verbs: eat
drink fly swim run also
play the verbs purr and sing
call and thrum and few
but crucial adverbs:
quickly quietly
here and now and the one
essential adjective of
their common holy
tongue: alive.
I bet raccoons use adjectives.
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You know they do. And double entendres.
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A few years ago my wife and I were hiking and passed through a huge flock of little Pine Siskins, all chirping away like mad in the nearby underbrush. It was a beautiful day and I’m sure they were all exclaiming, “Happy!” 🙂
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Definitely part of the animal lexicon!
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Lovely, Cate.
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Thank you, Sue! Good to hear from you.
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Cate, that’s beautiful! (Along with provocative … might we humans fare better with one another if we were more explicit, constrained to zero exaggerations?)
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Thanks, Jazz! We humans could definitely benefit from more inward engagement with elementals, with essentials, with the knowledge of our bodies, over the kinds of abstractions and ruminations that often preoccupy us …
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