Without Lifting A Finger

 Nesting Killdeer @ San Joaquin M & W. #1.) Mom takes some time to stretch her legs; #2.) Mom never strays far from the nest (Can you spot the speckled eggs behind her and to the right?); #3.) Here are the four eggs with magic, not chocolate, inside.  https://literarybohemian.com/poetry/red-coat/ #rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #irvine #sanjoaquinwildlife #sanjoaquin #birds #plovers #killdeer #miraclefair #magiceggs #nature #beauty #nests #eggs #poetry #readabook #readapoem #theliterarybohemian #redcoat

My "Red Coat" is up at The Literary Bohemian (TLB). https://literarybohemian.com/poetry/red-coat/

San Pedro. Point Fermin. Life Lesson #13. Pics 1 & 2: Mom is on her perch; Pics 3 to 7: Below Mom, on a slippery slope 100+ feet above the surf, the fledgling makes his way toward Mom, pleading for a little help. #rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #sanpedro #pointfermin #falcons #peregrinefalcons #lifelessons #life #selfreliance #nature #youcandoit #beauty #parenting #poetry #readmore2017

K allowed this utterance to sink into his mind. Do I believe in helping people? he wondered. He might help people, he might not help them, he did not know beforehand, anything was possible. He did not seem to have a belief, or did not seem to have a belief regarding help. Perhaps I am the stony ground, he thought.

 Short Session with some Juvenile Black-Necked Stilts. San Joaquin Marsh & Wildlife. #rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #irvine #sanjoaquin #birds #stilts #blackneckedstilts #juvenile #nature #youth #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2021

And then, post-finally, I discovered that Wilde was aware of this all along. As he once wrote to Conan Doyle: “Between me and life there is a mist of words always. I throw probability out of the window for the sake of a phrase, and the chance of an epigram makes me desert truth.”

Been reading it a while -- almost finished.  An interesting "clip": Those who generalise about the human condition often find their truths overturned by the obstinate individualism of reality. And the high point of the generalisation is the Wildean epigram. It is intended to be piquant, to stun and amuse and make the reader (or theatregoer) feel inferior: in this, the Wildean epigram is a verbal dandy. And like the dandy, most epigrams, except the greatest, come with a “best before” label. Time is equally the enemy of the butterfly, the dandy and the epigram.

Fledgling Peregrines @ Point San Vicente (Palos Verdes CA). #rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #palosverdesca #pointsanvicente #falcons #peregrine #fledglings #cliffs #lighthouse #nature #sea #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2021