There is a man who fishes all morning<\/p>\n
and feeds the birds all afternoon.<\/p>\n
He is always surrounded by pelicans,<\/p>\n
gulls, even great blue heron, and the<\/p>\n
occasional wood stork flock to him for food.<\/p>\n
Up at Mirror Lake, the egrets and ibis compete<\/p>\n
with the ducks and moorhens for morsels from<\/p>\n
office workers on their lunch hours and teenagers<\/p>\n
playing hooky from school. Homeless people, too,<\/p>\n
are generous with the shore birds and the geese.<\/p>\n
One man who admits he gets only one meal a day<\/p>\n
still shares what he has with a roseate spoonbill<\/p>\n
who has somehow flown in from Fort DeSoto or<\/p>\n
Lassing Park. \u201cSee,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is God\u2019s own<\/p>\n
beauty, right here. An Audubon painting, eating<\/p>\n
out of my hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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