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In a message dated 3/25/2006 12:30:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, jillipep@... writes:

My question to you is this: do you respond more to the written word or to visual imagery? I originally wrote about violence becausethat is what causes a reaction in many people, but you could pick anything that gives you joy as well. So, something that makes you very happy, would it give you more joy to read about it or to see it on tv? We don't haveto continue with this if you don't want to, but I've been fightingan internal battle with myself related to this topic so thank you for inspiring me to 'talk' it out. :-)Jill

It is normal for people to respond more strongly to pictures than words, which is probably the orgin of the saying; A picture is worth a thousand words.

As for the other, I most often think in pictures rather than words. That is probably one reason that I can describe scenes and action in stories well. Trying to convert images to words does take time and isn't always easy. Also, when trying to use words, my mind runs very fast compared to my speaking ability, which makes it harder still.

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In a message dated 3/26/2006 4:11:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

We've had the West Nile Virus up here near Chicago for a few years now. The first year, it took all the crows in our neighborhood, all the blue jays, and there are a couple of other kinds that have died out too (I know because I have not heard their calls in a few years).

We've had that around here too, but it didn't seem to cut the Jay's numbers too much. They're around, but don't come to the feeders as much as they used to, though I can hear them screeching in the trees. Crows weren't much of a problem around here. Now and then we'll see some, but they stay closer to the fields a few miles from here. The other birds are all still around, though some are seasonal and aren't here all the time. Sometimes I'll see a totally new bird, but they are very rare sightings.

The owls are back now too. I have heard them at night but haven't seen them yet. A few years ago I got some video of them sitting in a tree in the neighbor's yard. Its amazing that something the size of a Great Horned Owl (about 18 inches tall) can be so hard to see. I know they are out there and the squirrels know it too since they are very skittish now.

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I have bird feeders so I get a lot birds and I don't know if it's

normal for them to be so starving this time of year? Squirrels too-

one will jump off the tree and hit the bird feeder so as to knock the

seeds out onto the ground where he can get them, clever thing. They

seem hungrier than normal--I think it's because there's a lot of

building going on and their habitats are being destroyed. I've

especially noticed the hawks searching for food. I've never seen them

look for road kill but they're doing that and some are getting hit by

cars. I watched as one hawk caught a dove that had been at my feeder

but saw the hawk and tried to get away, in mid-air and proceeded to

eat him in the yard, very close to the house.

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