![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Nesting thoughts
May. 17th, 2004 02:06 pmGot an email announcement from VOFs (Very Old Friends) Tom and Tom Guillermo/Reisz that they plan to get married on Thursday at Cambridge City Hall. Mass Avenue was closed in front of the City Hall building last night for what amounted to a street fair and celebration. TnT live about a block away and had midnight-2AM refreshments. Sounds like a wonderful place to have been.
Since they've been together for 31 years and "already have too many toasters and bagel bins," they ask for gift impulses to be directed toward campaign funds for any state legislators that may face difficult races as a result of their support for same-sex marriage rights.
( Complete Text of TnT marriage announcement )
On the home front, our pair of young mourning doves have been trying for months to build a nest on the shelf provided by a light fixture next to our patio door. They patiently bring sticks and material, only to have them swept off the slick surface by wind. A mounting pile of detritus on the ground under the fixture testifies to their efforts.
Yesterday Mike spent some time sunning himself and started to chafe at the constant overflights by stick-carrying doves, so he put an obstacle (a pot) on the shelf to discourage them. The doves then started to build a nest inside the pot. Mike put bamboo sticks in the pot to make it unusable. The doves continued to fly up to the shelf, then stop in midair as they realized there was no place to land. Hours later they are still doing it. Which is why they call them "bird brains."
Moral? There is something wired into our brains that wants to build a nest. And if some higher power manipulates the environment to make it impossible for us, we'll keep on trying, no matter how futile the effort.
Since they've been together for 31 years and "already have too many toasters and bagel bins," they ask for gift impulses to be directed toward campaign funds for any state legislators that may face difficult races as a result of their support for same-sex marriage rights.
( Complete Text of TnT marriage announcement )
On the home front, our pair of young mourning doves have been trying for months to build a nest on the shelf provided by a light fixture next to our patio door. They patiently bring sticks and material, only to have them swept off the slick surface by wind. A mounting pile of detritus on the ground under the fixture testifies to their efforts.
Yesterday Mike spent some time sunning himself and started to chafe at the constant overflights by stick-carrying doves, so he put an obstacle (a pot) on the shelf to discourage them. The doves then started to build a nest inside the pot. Mike put bamboo sticks in the pot to make it unusable. The doves continued to fly up to the shelf, then stop in midair as they realized there was no place to land. Hours later they are still doing it. Which is why they call them "bird brains."
Moral? There is something wired into our brains that wants to build a nest. And if some higher power manipulates the environment to make it impossible for us, we'll keep on trying, no matter how futile the effort.
