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this could not be more PERFECT.   This

feather

IS a Downy Woodpecker feather…and yes….they do inhabit this forest and i hear them more than see them…they are Fast through the trees and only occasionally light nearby 

but this feather was a direct gift,  a message, an Alert to remember a moment in time

and in keeping with how it's all going right now,  these Markers rising up into awareness that shine light on others…

in the last few days alone:  Chaos,  Rupert,  being stoned,  the diorama of self,  appearing as things do for me in that metaphor of Slide Show….again…diorama…the image in the Image   that then tells a whole story of a Piece of Time.

I needed to remember the Flicker.        I was driving down Spring Street back home,  Ann Arbor Michigan,  driving down from Bird Hill at the top of the street where i would  "run away to" ,  finding solace there from whatever was weighing me down….driving  home and a truck right in front of me hit a bird,  i saw it in slow motion strike the hood and be flung into the weeds alongside the street…..i skidded to a stop and ran back,  looking,  looking,  the yellow gold underwing was askew  I picked it up, it didn't struggle,  was still but breathing through open beak.   Standing there,  holding it,  was the first time i had ever felt the exact moment and FEELING,  the physicality and Soul or Spirit separating,  the Spirit lifting from the body,  loosened and lifting FROM the body,  leaving me,  holding the now vacant form
I need that "memory" right now,  that particular "slide" image.   Flicker asked Woodpecker to leave a feather on its behalf.  In a place i would be sure to find it.    There is   amazement,  Wonder,  and deep Gratitude for this.