Did anyone see this?

[billymike]

3. I used to work

on a psychiatric outreach team, led by a no-nonsense, beautifully blunt psychiatrist, whose father died during my tenure there. The doc took me aside a few days after his dad died to tell me that he and his father had planted a tree together in the doctor's back yard late in the previous spring. It was now January in Iowa, and that morning a mature, male robin walked in circles around the tiny trunk as Doc stood transfixed at his kitchen window. He wanted my opinion of the soundness of his mind. So I told him about my late mother and the owls...