Uncategorized20 Dec 2020 12:58 pm
The Christmas Ornament Mystery
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Jenny BlackfordÂ
That blue-silver origami thing with wings inside the graceful ribbonned globe of Christmas glass was doubtless meant to be a swan  -- or maybe it's a more peculiar bird.  In mediaeval times monks taught that hungry mother pelicans would pierce their feathed breasts to feed their young on their heart-blood, urging their often half-starved human flock to more self-sacrifice.  I’d really rather that the silver-paper bird was anything but a starving pelican feeding herself to her brood.  Luckily, the more I look into the globe the more the origami thing with wings looks bony, ancient, wild.  Could it be the fabled Christmas Pterosaur?
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