Writing Prompt on Birds, Nesting, & Protecting What Matters

Just outside my condo building, tucked among the layered greens of the arborvitae, a pair of eastern towhees are keeping watch over a clutch of hatchlings, soft and new. Both parents are on high alert. Their partnership is quiet but fierce, taking turns, trading glances, sounding alarms at every shadow that passes too close. There’s […]