Xangana · #2

Today while closing the windows in the basement because of the storm that was coming, I saw a little bitty fluff of black... and it started hopping!  Then I noticed that it was chirping at regular intervals and that it had a bill coming out of it!  It was a baby bird!  I watched it for like a minute, hopping around and looking for somewhere to go as the rain was coming down it finally settled to go under a wheelbarrel... so I went outside and I told my dad about it and he said he might have seen the same bird yesterday when pulling up bushes... and he said that when he saw the bird, he put the bush he was removing back!  I went outside to see the bird up-close and it was kind of cornered near where our chimney protrudes from the outside wall of the house... and for a minute, it kept chirping... and then suddenly it turned around, looking at me, and opened it's mouth WIDE and started yelling!  And then I think it was because I was like motioning to it to move away, under this wheelbarrel we have, but it got scared at my motion, thinking it was threatening, and so it started kind of charging at me... so I slowly backed away, and it went off on its own.

Irshad Manji interview on WNYC

Listen to her interview on the Leonard Lopate Show... I like what she's saying... too bad she has this fake-sounding voice (as though she's reading off of something).  I wish I'd gone to see her at the Puck building with Leslie Stahl.