Natural and Unnatural
Sandhill cranes migrate here to winter in a man-made lake called the Whitewater Draw. Some 20,000 of them take flight at sunrise and sunset, filling the air with innumerable formations and their mesmerizing chatter (the info posting calls it a “gurgling trill”). It’s an amazing wonder of nature! For me, being there at these times is like going to church. This day being Sunday, we were moved to go again this morning for this ritual, making this our fourth visit in the almost two weeks since we’ve been here. Hallelujah! Watching and listening to the cranes moving in tandem with each other stirs in me not only an awe for Mother Nature, but also a brooding about human nature. Right here in this same terrain, we so severely restrict human migration and think of ourselves as different from each other. We from this side of the border see “the other” coming from the south as virtually a different species, not entitled to live where we live. We don’t want to share the land and waters w...