Three degrees
May. 6th, 2007 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyFolding towels in the laundry with the back door open, I had a bird song accompaniment. It's there all the time; so much so that it's mostly just background noise now. It gradually dawned on me, though, that amidst the familiar sounds - sparrow chatter and magpie carol and crow caw - there was a different note, one I've not heard before. So I looked out and after a bit of squinting I saw a crimson rosella in the cherry plum tree. That pleased me very much.
Later, out for my daily constitutional, the sky was blackened by a murder of crows; not going anywhere, just wheeling about and making a lot of noise. I lost count at thirty, and that wasn't even half of them. I wonder what that was about.
Do you ever think about that "six degrees of separation" idea? It's something that exercises my mind quite often during idle moments, I find (mostly on long train trips): pick a world-famous person and work out how many degrees of separation between us there are. I hardly know anyone and yet Pope John Paul II was two degrees of separation from me, and George W. Bush is three. Anyway, in the entertainment supplement of today's newspaper is an interview by a former school colleague with Keira Knightley, which means Johnny Depp is now three degrees from me as well.
Later, out for my daily constitutional, the sky was blackened by a murder of crows; not going anywhere, just wheeling about and making a lot of noise. I lost count at thirty, and that wasn't even half of them. I wonder what that was about.
Do you ever think about that "six degrees of separation" idea? It's something that exercises my mind quite often during idle moments, I find (mostly on long train trips): pick a world-famous person and work out how many degrees of separation between us there are. I hardly know anyone and yet Pope John Paul II was two degrees of separation from me, and George W. Bush is three. Anyway, in the entertainment supplement of today's newspaper is an interview by a former school colleague with Keira Knightley, which means Johnny Depp is now three degrees from me as well.