04 The Conversation

The Conversation..4

     Hummy flew along the eastern side of the mountains of Dominica because he could catch the updraft from the prevailing wind coming off the Atlantic Ocean. It was so easy to get caught up in the wind that he almost forgot the blink-burp jolt that was sending him back into conversation with BillyG. Hummy thought, “Was it strange to have a deep talk with a goat?” If the birds in my neighborhood find out that I am have a conversation with a goat they will laugh right off their perches. And worse yet, I have overheard humans talking about bird-brains. I don’t know what they mean and it makes me nervous.”

     As he looked down he saw BillyG just where he left him and knew without the slightest doubt that this mission was beyond comprehension but soon to be revealed.

     “Hi Billy G. Do you remember me?” As Hummy hovered  above him.

     “ Sure. What took you so long? This grass is getting so thick I can hardly see you.”

     “ I don’t know what I can do about the grass but I do want to ask a question”, Hummy tweeted.

     BillyG replied, “ Did  you tweet that?; Now that humans are tweeting I can’t tell the birds from the humans.”

     Hovering though a bit shocked, Hummy retweeted, “You are thinking about the same thing I am thinking about. Humans are off the chain; over the wall or have just lost it.”

     BillyG bleated, “You can say or tweet that again. Humans or people, whatever you may call them, are invading the sanctity of our consciousness. Is there anything left unsullied? People have been able to trust us goats for remaining stable for thousands of years and even though there are over 400,000,000 of us on this planet we don’t have a standing army, only fight over an occasional girl-goat, have not made the first bomb, and now they are going for another round of mayhem.”

     “what do you mean by another round of mayhem? ” Chirped Hummy.

     “Well”, whispered BiilyG,  “Not here in Dominica, pray tell, but in some other countries they are going into crowds and blowing themselves up and running up and down the street shooting each other with guns.”

     “ I can’t believe it!! Now I see what the book-cover I saw this morning meant.

The World in Disarray…………we as birds and animals must hold onto our consciousness especially since human consciousness appear to be in jeopardy. Thank God for the simplicity of plants and animals and pity the silly complexity of humans.” Sighed Hummy.

           “We can’t give up on them just because they are humans.” Said BillyG.

     “ Yes, I know that people are just babes-in-the-woods compared to us. We as animals have been on this planet for millions of years.  I think I know a way to help them but it will require great effort and more animals.”, replied Hummy.

      From just out of sight but not out of earshot sang Coqui the Frog, “I’m in. They (humans) really do need help.”