Circling

Circling

April 17, 2020 Off By Lisa

It was a perfectly good day for vultures.

When the sun is high and the wind just right, vultures like to play in the warmth just as any of us would. On a day as fine as this, the committee leaves their post on top of the neighbor’s garage and takes to the air, swirling, swooping, and circling above, catching a current this way or riding the wave of a thermal that way. They are in no particular hurry, and their joy is easily perceived.

But when the sun is absent and the wind blows cold on a day that bears potential for rain, it is easier to interpret the vultures’ movement as agitated, prowling, indicative of doom.

They behave no differently than on perfectly good days, but circumstances sometimes remind us of the true nature of birds of prey.

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Written in response to this week’s Six Sentence Stories challenge, hosted by Girlie on the Edge. Each week writers are challenged to spin a tale in just six sentences. 

This week’s cue is CIRCLE.

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Featured image by かねのり 三浦 from Pixabay

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About The Author

Lisa A. Listwa is a self-employed writer with experience in education, publishing, and the martial arts. Believing there was more to life than punching someone else’s time clock and inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, she traded her life as a high school educator for a life as a writer and hasn’t looked back. She is mother to one glorious handful of a daughter, wife to the nicest guy on the planet, and reluctant but devoted owner of three Rotten Cats. You can find her adventures and thoughts on living life deliberately here on the blog.

11 Comments

  • Susan Zutautas says:
    April 17, 2020 at 4:04 pm

    Wow1 Loved this!

  • Liz H says:
    April 17, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    So, good to be wary, but enjoy nonetheless. Lovely, nuanced piece, here!

  • GirlieOnTheEdge says:
    April 17, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    What an opener! I suppose I’m revealing my predisposition this evening by saying I was anticipating a less than “savory” story to follow, lol
    “…takes to the air, swirling, swooping, and circling above, catching a current…” Very pleasing, poetic phrasing. Nice.
    Amazing, isn’t it? How a sunshiny day can make anything not quite (fill in the blank).

    • Lisa says:
      April 17, 2020 at 11:21 pm

      To be honest, Denise, I originally thought of going in a more unsavory direction. LOL Kind of my path lately. But sometimes the words have their way with me more than I have my way with them.
      And thank you. Always. The feedback is my favorite part.

  • clark says:
    April 19, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    made me think of something I said at the TToT, about the Wakefield Doctrine*. While it is admirable to try to see the world through the eyes of the other person, the true source power understanding is found when we can see the world as they are experiencing it.
    Which is where your last line grabbed me. We, all of us, naturally superimpose our (personal) reality on others. But unless we are vigilant, it can be easy to miss the key element in reality, the emotions/ one’s emotional content.

    Nice Six, yo.

    *yeah, knock me over with a feather…lol

  • Lisa Tomey says:
    April 21, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Excellent! I felt this one swooping!

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