I used to see golden eagles dive all the time, back before I moved to the Coast and was living in the Sierr Navada mountains. I also saw a California Condor just once in my life, they were magnificent, but something about the dive of that Peregrine just struck a nerve, maybe it was because she literally stopped three feet from the ground. I was looking at her through a magnifying glass soaring really high in the air, then watched the descent until I couldn't follow it anymore, and then bam, she appeared like twenty feet from me with a rodent in her talons.
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A man once asked the Buddha, "How does one escape the heat of the summer sun?"
And the Buddha replied, "Why not try crawling into the blazing furnace?"
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