The burros haven't been seen down this way for weeks and we need them to clean the mesquite beans from the yard. The three large mesquites dump their sweet and nutritious beans this time of year littering the front yard. We pushed a load down the drive and out the gate hoping to catch a passing burro, but no luck yet. To our delight, a small coyote dropped by this morning and spent about half an hour skittishly eating her fill. Quail, cactus wrens, flycatchers, thrashers and a gilded flicker are taking advantage of the shade trees as the day heats up. It was eighty degrees when I got up at five thirty this morning, and the worst is yet to come.
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Human Mortality, Individual and Collective A blog essay by Josh Mittledorf that moved me.
