Watercolor LadybugSolace in Rain Listen to the rain it taps on my window like a horse's hooves pounding across a meadow. It stops when spooked by a deer or a gust of wind Listen to the rain insistent as a beaver's teeth bringing down an anicnt beech. I heard that awful chewing once, the creature heard before seen on the banks of Lookout Creek. Listen to the rain filling up the beaver's abode. I heard complaints of how that beaver had taken down Japanese maples and other carefully selected landscaping.
The word Indigenous is on the government’s banned words list.
All three are very nice.
If we do not learn from this history, we are doomed to repeat it.