Peter T: good to have you back!
this is brilliant and rapturous...stunning. One of your best that I remember reading...

as someone who spent many a summer day (and night) with the loons on Devil Lake near Kingston, Ontario as a teenager...and one who took to calligraphy like a duck to water in a college art class, thank you for this artful bauble. I will treasure it...

and, um, *I'll* have some of what you're smoking, too!

peg