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elgan - 2006-05-16 23:24:10
I too found evidence of violence against robins the other day when I picked up half a blue eggshell under the Siberian apricot tree. How do you explain the ferocity of nature to a child? AJ seems to have taken it well, though. The analogy was not lost on me, though. I�m reminded of Gordon Lightfoot�s The Way I Feel.
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Claudia - 2006-05-17 08:54:24
Dusty seems to handle violence in nature well - the understanding that everything is food for something else. What's harder to explain, and which I've avoided doing as much as possible, is human violence. She still asks why her friend died and when the police will know what killed her and I haven't the heart to explain that some random men killed her friend and her family because they wanted some electronics and cash.
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jen - 2006-05-17 10:22:45
that is a really sad story. even though baby birds are kind of ugly at first.
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Harriet - 2006-05-17 10:29:19
Some things just can't be explained, even to adults. Still, at some point it's valuable to to understand the potential violence of existence. And it's a lot easier to talk about it in terms of baby birds being eaten. The rest, unfortunately, will come with time.
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Smed - 2006-05-17 11:44:21
Yes, it's hard to explain nature to a child in the actual wild (or in your yard). Katie knows that some animals eat others, because of some nature shows and the zoo, but still, baby birds...
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lemming - 2006-05-17 14:34:12
(is quite teary eyed) I found a dead squirrel the other day. It was obvious that, for whatever reason, it had fallen from a great height, rather than being attacked, but it was still so hard to understand and accept...
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