Lucy Jones.

In this essay Sara Nolan affirms with wit and grain her sense of the “godliness of the everyday” brought home by the birth of babies of any species. I glimpsed it with sugar ants.

We are just creation playing its long dice game, no better or more important than anything with wings, hind legs, scales.

(Sara Nolan, “What Parrots Taught Me,” NYTimes, 8-2-19)

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